Which one of the following activities is the safest bet?
Employing the same safety measures on your smartphone as your email
Forwarding suspicious email to your phone and opening it there
Opening links only on your smartphone
Sending sensitive information by email, not sharing it in a cloud
Why might a private email server be more secure than Gmail?
It’s less visible.
No one can access a private server.
Private servers have safety features.
Viruses can’t infect private servers.
Commercial drones may be flown at night only if ______.
They’re equipped with anti-collision lights
They’re equipped with infrared
They’re flown above 400 feet
They’re flown in commercial (non-residential) areas
Shawna has decided to hire a professional photographer to market her client’s listing. What’s true about this tactic?
A good investment
An unnecessary expense
Ill-advised
Required
Marcus is your buyer client and you’re about to show him a dozen homes over the weekend. He’s afraid he won’t be able to keep them all straight. What do you recommend?
An app
A routing planner
Loan Comparison
Nextdoor
In general, you should make sure your videos used for real estate are ______.
No more than 30 minutes long
Produced by a professional
Short–about two minutes long
Spontaneous
This technology tool can be thought of as a digital Post-It Note that can be made to appear on any device where the tool is installed.
CamScanner
Dropbox
Evernote
Skitch
Which of the following technology tools would be considered foundational to a real estate licensee?
Drone, video, MLS, Email newsletter
Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, and NewsHound
SEO, CMS, CPM, and CRA
Website, CRM, CMA software, MLS
Of the following locations, which one would a drone be most appropriate for?
A condo
A house surrounded by trees
A property encircled by tall buildings
High-end home on an open parcel of land
Which of the following statements regarding real estate and technology is true?
Most buyers prefer to work without an agent.
Most real estate agents aren’t technologically savvy.
Technological advances are making real estate agents obsolete.
Technological advances present agents with new business opportunities.
A buyer client received a suspicious email giving them wire instructions different from what the title company had initially sent. Why does the buyer’s agent tell them to contact the title company?
To advise them to update their firewalls
To confirm the wire instructions
To tell them that they’ll be bringing a cashier’s check to closing instead
To tell them they received their new wire instructions
Which of the following statements about online advertising is true?
Compared to print advertising, online advertising is both less expensive and more effective.
Online advertising is a waste of time and money because people aren’t online much anymore.
Online advertising is important, but print advertising, TV and radio spots, and billboards are more effective.
Online advertising is prohibitively expensive.
What’s API used for?
Accessing data
Deleting data
Storing data
Tabulating data
Once you begin using online marketing tools, what’s the most practical way to follow up?
Evaluate your results annually.
Scrap anything that takes up too much time, regardless of whether it’s working.
Take the time to evaluate your successes regularly and adjust as needed.
Trust that everything is working fine.
Agent Maria has an active presence on a real estate networking site called ______.
Active Rain
Facebook
LinkedIn
Nextdoor
Rachel is qualifying a buyer. Which of these would be a good qualifying question for her to ask?
Are you working with a lender?
Do you plan to have children?
What’s your country of origin?
Who’s your tax advisor?
Which of the following is the most secure URL?
https://www.safesite.com
http://www.safesite.com
safesite.com
www.safesite.com
An easy way to help a prospective homebuyer visualize the flow of a property is to provide ______.
A floorplan
An appraisal
Multiple photos
Remodeling invoices
What’s Evernote?
A free tool that allows you to mark up digital photos
An application that allows you to convert photos to documents
An automated alert that sends you a note when a search term you’ve specified appears online
An organizational app that allows you to sync notes across multiple devices
What’s the best way to ensure you get a signed buyer representation agreement with the buyer?
Explain that without one, the buyer is unrepresented.
Explain that without one, the buyer will owe you your fee anyway.
Show the buyer the law: Agents may only assist buyers if they’ve signed a buyer representation agreement.
Slip it under the agency disclosure, and have the buyer sign it without reading it.