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What makes up most of eCommerce business? What is the percentage?

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B2B ~ Business to Business

Makes up 80%

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What are 3 things the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 required advertisers to do when sending emails?

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  • Clearly identify themselves (company)
  • Present a workable link to opt-out of future emails
  • Present a valid postal address or phone # so they have a way to be contacted other than via email
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How big are P2P networks?

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  • can be anywhere from 2 computers to hundreds
  • Any computer on a P2P network is considered a server if it shares a printer, file, video, or some other resource with the network
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When it comes to networks, Client/Server networks have the advantage over others when it comes to ___

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Centralized Administration

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What is a disadvantage to the P2P network?

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Less security and less control because users administer their own systems

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How does a Star Topology network go down?

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-HUB goes down

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Which type of network Topology is the most expensive?

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Star Topology

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What was the name of the CEO of Equifax who was fired due to a security breach?

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Richard Smith

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Equifax originally reported that the data breach affected ___ users, but a later report said it affected ___ users.

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First reported 143 million users

Later report reported 145.5 million users

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What were the reasons Equifax was hacked?

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  • Staffers didn’t respond to a public warning about vulnerability in Apache Struts software and malfunctioning scanning tool
  • Staffers emailed notice to IT personnel to patch issue but they didn’t (going against the 48-hour company patching policy)
  • later scan that month failed to identify vulnerability in Apache Struts
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What website can you use to encrypt files?

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Gnupg.org

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When should you use Individual File Encryption?

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When you are absolutely sure where all the confidential information is located on your computer

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___ prevents a thief from starting your computer without a passphrase

___ prevents a thief from opening your file without a passphrase

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Whole Disk Encryption

Individual File Encryption

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The term “thin client” refers to ___

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Software

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A ___ is a network computer without a hard disk drive

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Thin Client

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A ___ is one that will perform the bulk of processing in a client/server network

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Thick Client or Fat Client

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A ___ is one that will perform the bulk of processing in a client/server network

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Thick Client or Fat Client

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Which are more expensive to deploy, Thin or Thick clients?

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Thick Clients

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Which have more security issues, Thin or Thick Clients?

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Thick Clients

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Which are better at distributing data, Thin or Thick Clients?

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Thin Clients

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Which has more space, Thin or Thick Clients?

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Thick Clients

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Which is better, Thin or Thick Clients?

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Neither

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Which is more powerful, Thin or Thick Clients?

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Neither

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How does a browser know if a website is bad?

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It checks the websites Certificates that they have purchased

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What is pure-play?
Business that offer everything online
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What is Brick-and-Mortar?
Businesses that offer everything in their physical store
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What is Showrooming?
Browsing in a physical store before buying online
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What is Webrooming?
Browsing online before buying product in the physical store
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What is the latest Pure-Play retailer to convert to Brick-and-Mortar tactics
Birchbox
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Why are Pure-Play businesses building physical stores (Brick-and-Mortar)?
To enhance customers experience so they will buy more products overall (online and in person) Stores are very nice, employees well-dressed, etc.
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What is it called when a business is both Pure-Play and Brick-and-Mortar?
Omnichannel
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What does UPS stand for?
Uninterruptable Power Supply
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What was Guest Speaker form Fibertown's name?
Sam White
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What were the job titles of Sam White at FIBERTOWN?
- Director of Marketing and Technical Information | - Project Manager (Texas A&m Engineering Extension Service)
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The guest speaker, Sam White, used to be a pilot for ___
Southwest Airlines
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What is FIBERTOWN's smallest client?
2-man office
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How many desks and chairs does FIBERTOWN have?
156
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What was the name of the company that sued FIBERTOWN on Sam White's first day of work?
Uptime
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What is the name of the company that came up with the Tier System?
Uptime Institute
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What is the temperature in FIBERTOWN's data centers, what is the percentage of humidity?
72 degrees F | 50% Humidity
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Where is Sam White's office located?
Astin Building
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According to Sam White, the FIBERTOWN building was once owned by the ___
Coca-Cola company *used it to count quarters
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What is FIBERTOWN's niche market?
The Hurricane Zone
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How does FIBERTOWN's business evolve?
Business will have to exercise their DRP plan using FIBERTOWN's Co-location services and end up like the Bryan/College Station area and wanted to stay full time
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Fibertown's Tier 2 center is ___ | Fibertown's Tier 4 center is ___
Redundant | Concurrent
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What is the term called when you send packets across the internet?
Pack INternet Groper (PING)
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Why did Fibertown have pre-drilled holes in the ground when they purchased the building?
Holes were drilled by Bank who used to own FIBERTOWN building
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FIBERTOWN has ___ power rooms that have ___ transformers and each has a ___ side and a ___ side
has 3 power rooms has 3 transformers each has an "A side" and "B side"
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What is the name of the employee who is the Hands & Eyes of FIBERTOWN?
Bradely
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What is resilience?
- admitting you cannot stop bad things from happening | - goal is to survive disasters and cyber attacks
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Is FIBERTOWN a local internet service provider?
Yes
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Why didn't FIBERTOWN make tier 4?
They have 30in floors instead of 36 in floors
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Where is FIBERTOWN located in Houston, TX?
Above 500 year flood plan @ I-45 and Beltway 8
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Difference between Concurrent and Redundant?
Redundant -means there are multiple things installed to make sure if something goes wrong, then another will pick up the slack Concurrent - means that when something goes wrong, the thing is shut off to prevent the affects of bad thing causes the system to go down - NEVER go down
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SCADA control centers are the ___
Mission Control rooms
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What are the 4 services FIBERTOWN offers?
- CoLocation (COLO) - Business Continuity - SCADA control centers - Disaster Recovery (DR)
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What year were FIBERTOWN's redundant and concurrent facilities built?
Redundant 1997 Concurrent 2007
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___ allow you to lookup frequently used values on table in Excel.
Reference Functions
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When using the VLOOKUP function, ___ refers to the information that will use to pull a value from the reference table.
lookup_value
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What is the first step to use a PivotTable?
Preparing the Source Data
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When you add Region as the Row Labels of the pivot table, the different regions in the data are displayed as ___
Row headings of the table
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When two or more computers are connected to communicate and share resources it is called a ___
Computer Network
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What is a passphrase?
A memorable strong password
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A secret word or combination of keyboard characters typed in by a user to authenticate one's identity for joining a computer network is a ___
Password
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A password that contains a specific amount of characters with mixed cases and often requires letters and numbers is a ___
Strong Password
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Usually a harmless or interesting looking program that, when executed, unleashes harmful viruses into a user's system is a ___
Trojan Horse
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What is the menu in Excel called that is used to manipulate workbooks?
File
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Menu tabs that can be added to the Excel menu as you begin to use more of the features included in these groups.
Developer | Add-In Tabs
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often contain data, formatting and calculations that relate to common spreadsheet tasks (such as managing a budget or expense report).
Templates
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feature that allows the entire contents of a cell to appear by displaying it on multiple lines within the same cell.
Wrap Text
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icon that allows you to change important detail elements of your chart such as: titles, legends, data labels, and the axes of your chart.
Add Chart Element
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___ are used to define how the data will be summarized and arranged on the PivotTable ___ used to screen the data as it is placed in a PivotTable
Column and Row Labels Report Filters

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