- Subject: Business Information Systems - Recommended textbook for the subject: Laudon & Laudon (2014) Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 13th Edition. Pearson. ISBN 978-

- Subject: Business Information Systems

- Recommended textbook for the subject: Laudon & Laudon (2014) Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 13th Edition. Pearson. ISBN 978-0-13-305069-1 (CHAPTERS 7 & 8).

Additional sources: http://learn-networking.com/network-design/a-guide-to-network-topology

- Answer the following essay questions:

1. Name two different network topologies and describe when each would be used most appropriately.

2. What are the differences between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? How could one benefit from this difference? Provide a concrete example.

3. How has mobile computing changed major firms such as Apple, Google and Microsoft?

4. What are the various methods of safeguarding information in terms of tool selection and usage?

5. Consider a website-based eCommerce application. List the most common threats one faces when accepting credit card payments and describe several approaches for managing each.

6. Smartphones will become the most important device that own within the next few years. Agree or disagree with this statement and explain why.