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Niru Current Quiz
Throughout the world, government support for technological commercialization has been reliable.
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The technologies upon which new products are based develop over long periods of time as a result
of the actions of numerous
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a. social power
b. dollars
c. private and public sector actors.
d. Leadership
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According to the assigned textbook, the technology push model starts with discoveries in basic
science and
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a. population size
b. genetics
c. engineering
d. math
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Organizations like Greenpeace urged Monsanto to continue biotech and embrace organic farming.
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Marcus, Alfred A. The Future of Technology Management and the Business Environment. Pearson
FT Press PTG, 20151207. VitalBook file.
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According to Keynes, the thought of ultimate loss, often overtakes pioneers, must be put aside “as a
healthy man puts aside the expectation of death.”
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Game theory can help us understand why Xerox did not successfully exploit the opportunity it had in
IT. If both Xerox and competitors continue with old technology the payoff for Xerox
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a. is $150m, whereas the competitors’ payoff is $325m.
b. is $250m, whereas the competitors’ payoff is $75m.
c. is $75m, whereas the competitors’ payoff is $250m.
d. is $325m, whereas the competitors’ payoff is $150m.
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In deliberating about whether to commercialize a technology or not, companies have to consider the
feasibility by carrying out estimates of:
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a. population
b. probable future income streams
c. present value of money
d. the stock market
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According to the textbook, for a technology to gain widespread commercial acceptance, The
proponents of its commercialization must have the following 3 components:
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a. financial backing, governmental support, and the will to overcome setbacks
b. persistence, determination, and the will to overcome setbacks
c. social acceptance, determination, and financial backing
d. finances, culture, and social acceptance
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Expectations that prices will fall and quality increase actually retard more rapid adoption.
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Marcus, Alfred A. The Future of Technology Management and the Business Environment. Pearson
FT Press PTG, 20151207. VitalBook file.
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Each of these is a basic type of a touch screen, EXCEPT ________.
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A. resistive
B. surface acoustic wave
C. capacitive
D. reflective
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According to the author, there are five hedging strategies organizations can pursue. One of
them is:
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a. commit with fallback
b. Do not commit
c. commit with no fallback
d. allow independent thought
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The ________ model is an analytical tool used in business strategy to provide insights into
future opportunities and threats.
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a. delphi
b. baysean
c. five-forces-plus
d. structured equation
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The Delphi method is used to aggregate the beliefs of experts, when experts are asked to
predict important events and to clarify why he/she thinks the events are likely to occur. This
method has been found to be highly unreliable.
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a. Used exclusively by think tank organizations
b. This method has been found to be highly unreliable.
c. This method has been found to be very reliable.
d. Used mainly by computer science organizations
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Effect uncertainty refers to the imperfect understanding of the impacts of the conditions on an
industry
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A computer ________ is two or more computers connected using software and hardware so that
they can communicate with each other.
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A. node
B. network
C. broadband
D. switch
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The unique number assigned to a network adapter by the manufacturer is referred to as the
________ address.
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A. network
B. SSID
C. IP
D. MAC
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As a result of international debt, Morocco was not allowed to shift from state-based planning to a
freer market.
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One quarter of the world’s upper-middle-income countries have high or very high inequality based on
their Gini indexes
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To be a very low-income country, the per capita gross national income of a country in 2009 U.S.
dollars has to be $1,005 or less. Countries like ______, ______. and _______ fall into this category.
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a. Asia
b. Guatemala
c. Bangladesh
d. Cambodia
e. Kenya
f. India
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The earliest achievements in the quest to better serve the poor with technology took place in
___________________
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a. hedge funds
b. telecommunications.
c. law
d. major cities
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The middle classes have emerged in China and India and household income in the United States
and other wealthy nations has stagnated.
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A prosperous economy tends to struggle with high rates of crime, substance abuse, insecure
employment, and family dissolution.
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________ tools gather information from sources such as e-mails, text messages, and tweets and
make the information instantly and publicly available for use in emergencies.
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A. Affective computing
B. Crowdsourcing
C. Social networking
D. Crisis-mapping
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Using the Internet to get small donations from many people to start a business is called ________.
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A. crowdsourcing
B. kickstarting
C. crowdfunding
D. collaborating
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________ results when leisure time and available tools allow us to engage in creative acts.
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A. Social networking
B. Cognitive surplus
C. Crowdsourcing
D. Affective computing
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People are motivated to use their free time for altruistic purposes for all of these reasons EXCEPT
________.
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A. autonomy
B. mastery
C. consumption
D. purpose
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By the start of ____, global growth slipped. The post-World War II boom in advanced industrial
nations lost momentum. The need existed for a new set of advanced technologies.
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a. 1970
b. 1980
c. 1960
d. 1990
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______ are current leaders in energy storage and are used across many applications from laptops to
mobile phones to electric vehicles.
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a. Microwave
b. Transformers
c. Lithium-ion batteries
d. Solar cells
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In 2015, around ____ percent of the world’s population had an Internet connections.
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a. 10
b. 60
c. 30
d. 40
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Genes are the coded instructions that organisms use to make ______, which are the structures of all
living things and which perform the functions that make life possible.
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a. Protein
b. Blood
c. BHP
d. Cholesterol
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A form of artificial intelligence that can perform many complex, _______ tasks.
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a. serialized
b. repetitive
c. non-repetitive
d. determinant
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Opportunities in nanotechnology apply broadly to many fields. Identify TWO areas of IT that may be
impacted by its further development;
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a. quantum computing and telecommunications
b. photolithography and genetics
c. photolithography and alternative energy
d. telecommunications and genetics
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In binary language, each letter of the alphabet, each number, and each special symbol is made up of
a unique combination of eight ________.
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A. kilobytes
B. bits
C. characters
D. bytes
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________ computers are specially designed computer chips that reside inside other devices, such
as a car.
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A. Desktop
B. Netbook
C. Embedded
D. Tablet
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An Apple iPad and a Microsoft Surface are examples of ________ computers.
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A. desktop
B. netbook
C. tablet
D. laptop
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Which of the following computers is large, expensive, and is designed to execute a few programs as
fast as possible?
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A. Desktop computer
B. Mainframe computer
C. Embedded computer
D. Supercomputer
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For each set of opportunities and threats business organizations should consider
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a. introducing innovations
b. repositioning products and services
c. not changing organizational structures
d. changing organizational structures
e. reduce innovation initiatives
f. extending or contracting global operations
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Using applications on smartphones and tablets to buy and sell products is known as ________
commerce.
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A. remote
B. smart
C. mobile
D. web
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________ applications are software in which the vendor hosts the software online over the Internet
and you do not to install the software on your computer.
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A. Open Source as a Service
B. Infrastructure as a Service
C. Software as a Service
D. Platform as a Service
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________ software helps run the computer and coordinates instructions between other software and
the hardware devices.
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A. Productivity
B. Application
C. Recovery
D. System
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The appropriate software to use for creating research papers is ________ software.
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A. presentation
B. spreadsheet
C. database
D. word processing
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According to the author of the textbook, the explosion of the Union Carbide plant impact the
residence of the local community. Identify each of the ways residents were medically affected.
Select one or more:
a. Blinded by the cornea-clouding effect of the gas
b. traveling
c. lungs on fire
d. employment
e. reproductive illnesses
f. weather conditions
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Experts like economists and engineers are usually trained to rely on _____ to estimate risk
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a. computational tools
b. theories
c. specific observations
d. inspiration
e. bias
f. vibs
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After the explosion of the Union Carbide plant the fire brigade began to spray a curtain of water in
the air to knock down the cloud of gas.
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a. The system of water spray pipes was too high to help
b. The system of water spray pipes was too low to help
c. The system of water spray pipes broke
d. The system of water spray pipes did not have sufficient water supply
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Limitations of time, money, and ______________ mean that there are questions that cannot be
answered with certainty.
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a. incomplete knowledge
b. culture
c. finance
d. politics
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Many investigations explored the causes of oil spills and have identified them to be a result of
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a. poor management oversight
b. poor financial planning
c. following procedures too closely
d. weather conditions
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In 1984 _____ ignored warnings that the plant was troubled and had potential for a catastrophe.
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a. IBM
b. BP
c. the United Nations
d. Union Carbide
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BP's expansion plans were reduced, and its ability to compete with other large multinational oil
companies like____ became limited.
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a. Texaco
b. Exxon Mobil
c. Shell
d. Sunoco
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December 2, 1984, everything seemed normal at the Bhopal plant. However, half an hour later, a
worker noticed a methyl isocyanate leak near the vent gas scrubber. The workers planned to fix the
leak
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a. after tea break
b. after lunch
c. when the weather cleared
d. the next day
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One the eight safety systems that failed was deemed to be ____________
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a. the cement at the bottom of the borehole did not seal.
b. the weather temperature
c. the water temperature
d. political