n which of the following cases is outsourcing likely to be the best solution to the firm's data processing needs?

Peterson International is a trenchcoat wholesaler to retailers around the world. Sixty percent of sales orders are taken during the months of August and September. Peterson needs a system to manage online ordering and fulfillment.

Battlegoat Investment Strategies manages investors' portfolios and provides services to wealthy customers. The firm needs a system that will pull together selected investment data from a variety of sources and that allows account managers to prepare customized reports.

Yachtman Limited is in the business of buying businesses, managing them for a few years, then selling them for a profit. The firm requires a flexible system that will allow it to manage the types of businesses it controls.

Desalinas LLC, manages the construction of desalinization plants. It needs a system that will allow it to manage the construction process from bid to billing.

Students enrolled in an economics course at UHV received an e-mail stating that class would be cancelled. The e-mail claimed to be from the professor, but it wasn't. Computer forensic experts determined that the e-mail was sent from a computer in one of the campus labs at 6:32 A.M. They were then able to uniquely identify the computer that was used by means of its network interface card's ________ address. Security cameras revealed the identity of the student responsible for spoofing the class.

		IDS
		TCP/IP
		MAC
		DMZ