E-Commerce Technical Infrastructure
Covers web servers, networking, databases, and application servers in e-commerce systems
Questions
Which of the following services is/are not provided by the web server in e-commerce?
- Process HTTP requests
- FTP
- Search engines
- None of the above
- Options 1, 2 and 3
In packet switching concept, what is a packet?
- It is a method of slicing the messages.
- It is the minimised allowable unit of a message.
- It is the discrete message.
- Both 1 and 2 are correct.
- All of the above are correct.
When objects are retrieved from database to the web page, which of the following is not used?
- CGI
- ASP
- JSP
- HTML
- All of the above
Header in each packet consists of
- destination addresses
- number of bits in the message
- source address
- number of packets in entire message
- all of the above
In an e-commerce site, what does the domain name in the URL represent?
- A physical area in which the website is applicable
- IP address of the website
- The protocol used
- Domain name is not a part of the URL.
- The IP address is not the domain name, it is the location.
Which is the most suitable platform for e-commerce site which requires the following?
- Catalog
- Non-repudiation integrity
- High volume dynamic searches
- wsj.com
- amazon.com
- ariba
- Both 1 and 2 are correct.
- Both 1 and 3 are correct
An e-commerce website needs to be fast and reliable to make it efficient in commercial perspective. In which sense does the site become faster and reliable?
- To deliver full contents to the customer
- To complete a given transaction reliably and quickly
- User-friendly buttons, which leads to faster and proper access to the product
- Faster access to the required product
- All of the above
Which of the following is/are included in the security plan of e-commerce?
- Performance risk assessment
- Security policy
- Security audit
- All of these
- None of the above
What characteristics are not required to attract the maximum number of customers?
- Quicker and correct access to the product
- User friendly and fast website
- Alternate navigation must be available.
- Multi-browser facility
- None of the above
A software package for e-commerce has following features:
- Functionality
- Business process modelling tools
- Performance and scalability
- Compliance with the standards
What is this software package called?
- Domain package
- Application server software
- Merchant server software
- Both 1 and 2 are correct.
- All are correct.
Which of the following is/are not a part of widgets in an e-commerce site?
- Gadgets
- Gateways
- Plugins
- Snippers
- None of the above
Which of the folllowing is not an improving method for processing of an e-commerce website?
- Using specialised server for each type of work load
- Dedicated servers for all CPU intensive activities
- Optimising the ASP code
- Increasing RAM size to the maximum possible
- Increase database search time
Application servers are used in e-commerce to provide
- isolation between front end and back end
- isolation between corporate and consumers
- isolation between product and consumer
- options 1 and 3
- only option 2
The HTML pages are linked to the back end corporate database, regardless of the type of the database. This is done by the standard database retrieval method. Which of the following represents this?
- DB2
- DBMS
- ODBC
- HTML code
- SPG
Which of the following is not performed by application server?
- Catalog display
- Transaction processing
- Audio/video server facility
- B2B server
- All of the above