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CHAPTER-1(Web Commerce)
*.1.Define commerce.
Answer-
Commerce is normally associated with the buying and selling of items.
2.Before the advent of networks, how was data being transferred between computer
s?
Answer-
With secondary memories like floppies
3.Name two stages of commerce that cannot be automated.
Answer-
Production of goods and delivery of goods.
4.What is the role of encryption in data transfer
Answer-
To ensure security of data.
5.Name two areas which are reasons of worry in e-commerce.
Answer-
Security and legal acceptance
6. List the categories of operations comes under e-commerce.
Answer-
The following categories of operations comes under e-commerce.
*.Transactions between a supplier/a shopkeeper and a buyer or between two compan
ies over a public network like the service provider network (like ISP). With sui
table encryption of data and security for transaction, entire operation of selli
ng/buying and settlement of accounts can be automated.
*.Transactions with the trading partners or between the officers of the company
located at different locations.
*.Information gathering needed for market research.
*.Information processing for decision making at different levels of management.
*.Information manipulation for operations and supply chain management.
*.Maintenance of records needed for legal purposes, including taxation, legal su
its etc.
*. Transactions for information distributions to different retailers, customers
etc. including Advertising, sales and marketing.--------------------
CHAPTER-2 (Fundamentals of consumer oriented e-commerce)
1. List any three basic needs of consumer oriented e-commerce.
Answer-
Standard processes for buying and selling; well accepted hardware and software a
nd secure
commercial and transport practices.
2. List any three basic banking activities.
Answer-
Three basic banking activities
1.Account checking,
2.ATM, payment of bills,
3.fund transfer etc.
3. What does ATM stand for.
Answer-
ATM stand forAutomated Teller machine
4. Why does an ATM does not involve a computer at customer's level?
Answer-
An ATM does not involve a computer at customer's level Because any average custome
r is more comfortable with simply inserting an ATM card.
5. What is the samples type of home shopping?
Answer-
The channels describe the product, orders are placed over phone, delivery is mad
e at home
and payment in the standard mode.
6. What is movie on demand?
Answer-
The viewer selects the movie to view an the TV against payment.
7. Name any two concepts of TV based home entertainment?
Answer-
Movie an demand and on line games.
8. What is the need for seamless connections?
Answer-
So that persons with different types of hardware and software can interact easil
y.
9. What is the need for market place interacts?
Answer-
To facilitate comparisons, negotiations, bargaining etc.
10. What is the need for settling disputes?
Answer-
To ensure that disgruntled customers / traders can have a standard recourse for
settlement.
11. List and explain the desirable characteristics of e-marketing.
Answer-
Characteristics of e-marketing are-
1.A minimal size of the place-Obviously for any such place to thrive there is a
critical size, below which it is not profitable to operate. This minimal number
of buyers and sellers characterises the profitability of the place.
2.A scope for interactions-Interactions include trial runs of the products, clas
sifications of doubts on the part of the customers, details of after sales servi
ces, ability to compare different products and of course scope for negotiationsa
nd bargaining. Negotiations can be in terms of cost, value additions, terms and
conditions, delivery dates etc.
3.Scope for designing new products-The customer need not buy only what is availa
ble. He can ask for modifications, upgradations etc.The supplier must be able to
accept these and produce made to order items.
4.A seamless connection to the marketplace-It is obvious that each customer will
be operating with a different type of computer, software, connectivity etc. The
re should be available standards sot that any of these costumers will be able to
attach himself to any of the markets without changing his hardware/software/int
erfaces etc.
5.Recourse for disgruntled users-It is nave to believe that transaction of such a
place end up in complete satisfaction to all parties concerned. Especially beca
use of the facelessness of the customer and the supplier, there should be a stan
dard recourse to settle such disputes.
12. Explain basic tenets of e-commerce.
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CHAPTER-3(Electronic Commerce and the World Wide Web)
1. Define EDI.
Answer-
Electronic Data Interchange.
2. Define EFT.
Answer-
Electronic Data Interchange.
3. Name a few operations performed by e-commerce.
Answer-
Payment, fund transfer, order entry, invoicing etc.
4. Define a framework.
Answer-
Framework is intended to define and create tools that integrate information.
5. List the six layers of e-commerce architecture.
Answer-
The six layers of e-commerce architecture-
1.Applications
2.Brokerage services
3.Interface
4.Secure messaging
5.Middle ware and
6.Network infrastructure
6. Name the three classes of e-commerce applications based on transactions.
Answer-
Consumer to business, Business to business, intra organization.
7. Define a information Brokerage.
Answer-
An intermediary who provides integration between customers and information provi
ders
8. Define a software agent.
Answer-
Agent is an encapsulation of users' instructions.
9. Define middle ware.
Answer-
It is a mediator between diverse application programs that talk to each other.
10. Name the three stages of e-commerce architecture on web.
Answer-
The three stages of e-commerce architecture on web are
1. Client browser
2. WWW server functions and
3. Third party services.
11. With the help of an example give the meaning of secure messaging.
Answer-
Secure messaging is a server based approach to protect sensitive data when sent
beyond the corporate borders and provides compliance with industry regulations s
uch as HIPAA, GLBA and SOX. Advantages over classical secure e-Mail are that con
fidential and authenticated exchanges can be started immediately by any internet
user worldwide since there is no requirement to install any software nor to obt
ain or to distribute cryptographic keys beforehand. Secure messages provide non-
repudiation as the recipients (similar to online banking) are personally identif
ied and transactions are logged by the secure email platform.
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the de facto standard for email that tra
verses the Internet. In fact, the initial specification is a standard (RFC821) f
irst published in 1982 before the Web as we know it even existed. (For perspecti
ve, the standard defining the URL was published in 1994.) If you send a message
on the Internet, you use SMTP. Notes/Domino fully supports SMTP messaging, provi
ding many powerful mechanisms to keep the message secure.
12. With the help of a diagram explain e-commerce architecture.
Answer- The basic idea is that
your potential customers go to your world-wide web (WWW) page, find a product or
service that they wish to purchase from you, and then purchase it while they ar
e at the web page. There are three
components to this architecture: the Internet, a firewall, and your organization
. The Internet is where you will interact electronically with your customers, yo
ur firewall will provide you with reasonable protection against people who wish
you harm, and your organization's systems will process the business transactions
generated on the WWW by your customers. Later in this white paper we will discus
s a development approach that uses Java and Smalltalk to support this architectu
re.
To understand why we need to change our systems infrastructure we must first put
the requirements of electronic commerce into perspective. We're talking about the
WORLD wide web, and that means international commerce. Doing business internati
onally means handling multiple languages, multiple currencies, multiple cultures
, multiple tax laws, and multiple shipping/customs rules. It's a whole new ball ga
me folks, and we need to step up to the plate right now.
Definitions-
*.Electronic cash (e-cash) A digital currency used on the Internet to buy and se
ll products.
*.Electronic commerce (e-commerce) Any form of commerce in which the buyer of a
product or service uses a computer to interact with the computer system of the s
eller of that product or service.
*.Internet A collection of interconnected computers that people can log onto to
share information, tocommunicate, to be entertained, and to perform electronic c
ommerce transactions.
*.Intranet A network internal to your organization that is built either partiall
y or completely fromInternet-based technology.
*.World Wide Web (WWW) A component of the Internet that provides users with the
ability to movefrom computer system to computer system by following predefined l
inks among those systems.
13. Give the architecture framework for e-commerce.
Answer- The software framework necessary for building electronic
commerce applications is little understood in existing literature.
In general a framework is intended to define and create tools that
integrate the information found in today's closed systems and
allow the development of e-commerce applications. It is important
to understand that the aim of the architectural frame-work itself
is not to build new database management systems, data repository,
computer languages, software agent based transaction monitors,
or communication protocols.
Rather, the architecture should focus on synthesizing the diverse
resources already in place in corporations to facilitate the integration
of data and software for better applications.
The electronic commerce application architecture consists of six
layers of functionality, or services:
(1) applications;
(2) brokerage services, data or transaction management;
(3) interface, and; support layers
(4) secure messaging, security and electronic document
interchange;
(5) middle ware and structured document interchange; and
(6) network infrastructure and basic communications services,
These layers cooperate to provide a seamless transition between
today's computing resources and those of tomorrow by
transparently integrating information access and exchange within
the context of the chosen application. Electronic commerce applications are base
d on several elegant technologies.
But only when they are integrated do they provide uniquely
powerful solutions.
In the ensuing discussion of each of these layers, we will not
elaborate on the various aspects of the network infrastructure that transports i
nformation. These were discussed extensively earlier and will not be addressed h
ere. We begin our discussion with the application level services.
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CHAPTER-4 (Consumer-Oriented Electronic Commerce)
1. Name the three broad phases of consumer's perspective.
Answer-
Pre-purchase determination, purchase consummation, post purchase interaction.
2. What are the categories of consumers?
Answer-
Impulsive buyers, patient buyers and analytical buyers.
3. What are the four types of purchases?
Answer-
The four types of purchases are-
Specifically planned, Generally planned, reminder purchases and unplanned purcha
ses.
4. Why are information brokerages needed?
Answer-
To help in comparison shopping, reduce search costs and integration.
5. What issues are included in post purchase interaction?
Answer-
Inventory issues, database access issues and customer service issues.
6. Name the phases from the merchants point of view?
Answer-
Presales interaction, product service, production and delivery and post sales in
teraction.
7. What is order selection?
Answer-
Prioritize orders based on same factors.
8. Why is a critical mass necessary for market?
Answer-
Otherwise the cost per unit goes up.
9. What is the need for standardization?
Answer-
To move seamlessly across various hardware and software.
10. On what factors can negotiations take place?
Answer-
Over money, terms and conditions, delivery dates and evaluation criteria.
11. List the desirable characteristics of e-commerce market place?
Answer-
The following criteria are essential for consumer-oriented electronic commerce:
*.Critical mass of buyers and sellers. The trick is getting a critical mass of c
orporations andconsumers to use electronic mechanisms. In other words, the elec
tronic marketplace should be the first place customers go to find the products a
nd services they need.
*.Opportunity for independent evaluations and for customer dialogue and discussi
on. In the marketplace, not only do users buy and sell products or services, the
y also compare notes on who has the best products and whose prices are outrageou
s. The ability to openly evaluate the wares offered is a fundamental principle o
f a viable marketplace
*.Negotiation and bargaining. No market place is complete if it does not support
negotiation. Buyers and sellers need to be able to haggle over conditions of mu
tual satisfaction, including money, terms and conditions, delivery dates, and ev
aluation criteria.
*.New products and services. In a viable marketplace, consumers can make request
s for products and services not currently offered and have a reasonable expectat
ions that someone will turn up with a proposed offering to meet that request.
*.Seamless interface. The biggest barrier to electronic trade is having all the
pieces work together so that information can flow seamlessly from one source to
another. This requires standardization. On the corporate side, companies need co
mpatible EDI software and network services in order to send electronic purchase
orders, invoices, and payments back and forth.
*.Recourse for disgruntled buyers. A viable marketplace must have a recognized m
echanism for resolving disputes among buyers and sellers. Markets typically incl
ude a provision for resolving disagreements by returning the product or through
arbitrage in other cases.
12. Explain mercantile model from consumer's perspective?
Answer-
The business process model from a consumer's perspective consist of seven activiti
es that can be grouped into three phases: pre-purchase phase, purchase consummat
ion, and post-purchase interaction.
1.The pre-purchase preparation phase includes search and discovery for a set of
products in the larger information space capable of meeting customer requirement
s and products selection from the smaller set of products based on attribute com
parison.
2.The purchase consummation phase includes mercantile protocols that specify the
flow of information and documents associated with purchasing and negotiation wi
th purchasing and negotiation with merchants for suitable terms, such as price,
availability, and delivery dates; and electronic payment mechanisms that integra
te payment into the purchasing process.
3.The postpurchase interaction phase includes customer service and support to ad
dress customer complaints, product returns, and product defects.Let's consider eac
h of the consumer purchasing phases in detail.
13. Explain mercantile model from merchant's perspective?
Answer-
i) Order planning and Order generation: - Order planning leads intoorder generat
ion. Orders are generated by broadcast ads, sending personalized e-mail to the c
ustomer, or creating web pages.
ii) Cost Estimation and Pricing: - Pricing is the bridge between customer needs
and company capabilities. Pricing at the individual order level depends on under
standing, the value to the customer that is generated by each order, and institu
ting a system that enables the company to price each order based on its valued a
nd cost.
iii) Order Receipt and Entry:- In this step customer enter his order about servi
ces and products that he want to buy. This department is staffed by very experie
nced employees.
iv) Order Selection and Prioritization: - In this phase CSRs decide that which o
rders to accept and which to decline and set priorities because some orders are
better for business.
v) Order Scheduling: - It means slotting the selected order into an actual produ
ction or operational sequence. This is very difficult because the different func
tional department's like- sales, marketing, customer service etc may have conflict
ing their goals.
vi) Order fulfillment and Delivery: -- This is very complex phase where the actu
al provision of the product or service is made.
vii) Order Billing and Account/Payment Management:-
viii) Post-sales Service:- It play important role in company's profit equation. De
pending upon the specific of the business, it can include element as physical in
stallation of a product, repair and maintenance. Because of the information conv
eyed and intimacy involved, post sales services can affect customer satisfaction
and company profit.
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CHAPTER-5 (Electronic Payment Systems)
1. What are the three types of electronic tokens?
Answer-
Cash, debit and credit (also called real time, prepaid and post paid).
2. What are the four properties that e-cash should have?
Answer-
Monetary value, inter operability, retrievability and security.
3. How does digital signature works?
Answer-
By providing two keys, one with the public and the other privately with the buye
r. The
signature is coded with both.
4. What are the two desirable properties in any e-transaction?
Answer-
Anonymity and security.
5. What is double spending?
Answer-
Double spending Spending the same cash in more than one place.
6. What is the difficulty in storing e-cash?
Answer-
It does not provide interest. Also exchange fluctuations affect it.
7. What are the normal constraints put on e-cash?
Answer-
A validity limit, the more amount that can be stored, more no. of exchanges and
no. of exchanges within a time period.
8. What is an electronic purse.
Answer-
It is card with a pre-determined amount of money loaded.
9. What are the three ways in which payment through credit cards can be made ove
r the net?
Answer-
Using plain cards, encrypted cards and cards with third party verification.
10. Name any four issues addressed in a e-payment system.
Answer-
Privacy, security, database integration, brokers etc.
11. Explain the various issues to be addressed while designing e-payment system.
Answer-
12. Explain the categories of credit card payment system on on-line networks.
Answer-
We can break credit card payment on on-line networks into three basic categories
:
1.Payments using plain credit card details. The easiest method of payment is the
exchange ofunencrypted credit cards over a public network such as telephone lin
es or the Internet. Thelow level of security inherent in the design of the Inter
net makes this method problematic. Authentication is also a significant problem,
and the vendor is usually responsible to ensure that the person using the credi
t card is its owner. Without encryption there is not way to do this.
2.Payments using encrypted credit card details. It would make sense to encrypt y
our credit card details before sending them out, but even then there are certain
factors to consider. One would be the cost of a credit card transaction itself.
Such cost would prohibit low-value payments (micro-payments) by adding costs to
the transactions.
3.Payment using third party verification. One solution to security and verificat
ion problems is the introduction of a third party; a company that collects and a
pproves payments from one client to another. After a certain period of time, one
credit card transaction for the total accumulated amount is completed.
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CHAPTER-6 (Inter-organizational Commerce and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
1. Define EDI.
Answer-
Inter-process communication of business information in standard electronic form.
2. List the four layers of EDI architecture.
Answer-
Semantic layer, standard layer, transport layer and physical layer.
3. List any two tangible benefits of EDI.
Answer-
Reduced paper based systems, improved customer service.
4. Who is liable if an EDI network fails to deliver the message?
Answer-
Not decided as yet.
5. Can the digital signature fully replace handwritten signature?
Answer- No
6. What is EFT?
Answer-
Electronic Fund transfer.
7. What is the need for open EDI?
Answer-
To allow e-commerce between two organizations for a short duration.
8. With the help of a diagram explain the flow of in formation in EDI.
Answer-
9. List the tangible benefits of EDI.
Answer-
Saving also accrue from the following improvements:
*.Reduced paper-based systems: EDI can impact the effort and expense a company d
evotes to maintaining records, paper- related supplies, filing cabinets, or othe
r storage systems and to the personnel required to maintain all of these systems
. EDI can also reduce postage bills because of the amounts of paper that no long
er need be sent..
*.Improved problem resolution and customer service: EDI can minimize the time co
mpanies spend to identify and resolve interbusiness problems. EDI can improve cu
stomer service by enabling the quick transfer of business documents and a marked
decrease in errors.
*.Expanded customer/supplier base: Many large manufacturers and retailers with t
he necessary clout are ordering their suppliers to institute an EDI program. How
ever, these are isolated islands of productivity because they are unable to buil
d bridges to other companies. With the advent of electronic commerce, the bridge
is now available.
10. Explain the layered architecture of EDI.
Answer-
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CHAPTER-7 (EDI Implementation, Value-Added Networks)
1. List any four components of EDI implementation.
Answer-
EDI standard, translation software, trading partners, value added networks etc.
2. What is the common structure of EDI messages?
Answer-
Each message is made up of transaction sets which are divided into data segments
, which in
turn are made up of data elements.
3. What are the four layers of EDI implementation?
Answer-
Business application layer, format conversion layer, translator layer and envelo
p for document
messaging.
4. List any three disadvantages of custom translators.
Answer-
They are restrictive, difficult to up date and are unsupported.
5. What are main types of EDI access methods?
Answer-
Direct dialing, limited Third party VAN and full service Third party VAN.
6. What are the costs of EDI implementation.
Answer-
Fixed costs, Maintenance fees, VAN charges.
7. List the factors that affect the fixed costs.
Answer-
Volume of documents, cost of EDI translation software and implementation time.
8. What are the disadvantages of VANs for EDI.
Answer-
Slowness, high costs.
9. List the main costs of VAN.
Answer-
Account startup costs, usage costs and interconnect costs.
10. List four advantages of Internets.
Answer-
Flat pricing, cheap access, common standards and secure.
11. How much will an EDI implementation cost?
Answer-
Prices for EDI products vary from no cost ( for very simple one-function produc
ts) to several thousands of dollars for full-function applications.
The final cost depends on several factors:
1.The expected volume of electronic documents: Generally speaking, PC products c
ost less but handle only a few documents and trading partners. Mid-range EDI pac
kages can be a little more expensive but can handle a larger volume of multiple
document types or multiple trading partners.
2.Economics of the EDI translation software: Some products initially look like a
bargain, but as needs grow, hidden costs suddenly appear. These costs can range
from new transaction sets for doing different forms to expensive upgrades.
3.Implementation time: Some applications are easier to learn and use than others
. The more time spent in training, the more time it takes to get into production
mode. If the implementation time frame is tight, it is wise to look for a trans
lator that doesn't require training before implementation.Maintenance fees and VAN
charges can vary considerably and as such can affect the cost of EDI systems:
4.Maintenance fees: Most companies charge an annual maintenance fee, usually a p
ercentage of the translator's list price. This fee should include software updates
, standards updates, technical support, and customer service.
5.VAN charges: VANs bill for data transmission, similar to long-distance phone c
alls. Come base their billing per document & others charge based on the number o
f kilo-characters in each document. Some also bill for connect time.
12. What is VAN? with the help of a diagram explain the functions of third party
VAN.
Answer-
A VAN is a communications network that typically exchanges EDI messages among tr
ading partners. It also provides other services, including holding messages in el
ectronic mailboxes, interfacing with other VANs and supporting many telecommunica
tions modes and transfer protocols.
13. What is EDI? List the factors that make the inteRnet useful for EDI
Answer-
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CHAPTER-8 (Intra organizational Electronic Commerce)
1. What is work flow management?
Answer-
It is the concept of task coordination for better results.
2. What are the two main issues that are focused by customization?
Answer-
Time to market and flexible operations.
3. What is supply chain management?
Answer-
It is the chain of suppliers and customers for a particular business.
4. What is the main disadvantage of vertical organization?
Answer-
It allows gaps to exist between employees of different departments.
5. What is the main difference between horizontal and vertical organizations?
Answer-
Horizontal organization is two tiered as against multiple tiered organization.
6. Define virtual organization?
Answer-
It is a network closely coupled upstream with suppliers and downstream with cust
omers.
7. What are the two approaches of virtual organization?
Answer-
Downward and lateral.
8. What are the two main categories of SCM?
Answer-
Push based and pull based.
9. What are the primary elements of SCM
Answer-
Logistics, integrated marketing and agile manufacturing
10. What is meaning of push based and pull based supply chains.
Answer- A push strategy within the advertising/marketing industry involves direc
ting marketing efforts at resellers. The success of the marketing depends on the
ability of these intermediaries to market the product. The goal of a push strat
egy is to make the customer aware of the product/brand at the point of purchase.
Examples of push strategy tactics include displaying the product near the regis
ter, a packaging design to encourage purchase, and direct selling to customers a
t stores.
A pull strategy encourages the consumer to actively seek out your product/brand.
The idea is to "get the consumer to come to you." This intensifies consumer dem
and by directing marketing strategies at the consumer. Examples of pull strategy
tactics include advertising, mass media promotion, and word of mouth promotion.
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CHAPTER-9 (The Need for Computer Security)
1. What are the two basic types of physical data security?
Answer-
Data integrity and Data availability.
2. Name the two type of threats to data.
Answer-
Active threats and passive threats.
3. What is masquerade?
Answer-
The attacker pretends to e some one else.
4. What is IP spoofing?
Answer-
It is a tool that intruders use to take over an open terminal and login connecti
ons after they
get root access.
5. What is Telnet?
Answer-
Telnet enables users to log in to remote computers.
6. What is the basic principle of kerberos?
Answer- It provides authentication to messages in an open network.
7. What is the unit over which kerberon acts?
Answer- Tickets
8. What are the three ownership groupings in unix files?
Answer-
Owner, user, others.
9. What are the three levels of file access permissions in unix?
Answer-
Read, write and execution.
10. What are the three main categories of fire walls?
Answer-
Packet filters, application level gateways and proxy servers.
11. Give the remarks on hacking technionces.
Answer-
12. What is the meaning of Active and passive theats.
Answer-
13. List the guidelines to be followed for security policy?
Answer-
14. List the issues to he addressed while displaying a security policy.
Answer-
15. Differntiate between viruses and worrms.
Answer-
16. Explain the most prominent secure transmission protocol for web communicatio
ns.
Answer-
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CHAPTER-10 (Approaches to Safe Electronic Commerce)
1. List the four basic goals of electronic Security?
Answer-
Privacy, Integrity, authentication and availability.
2. What is non-repudiation?
Answer-
A person cannot deny after having sent / received a message.
3. What is key Management?
Answer-
To create, distribute, revoke and manage keys.
4. What is encryption of data?
Answer-
Encoding of data with a suitable key.
5. What is the encryption algorithm on which SSL depends?
Answer-
The RSA algorithm.
6. What are basic elements in a SEPP process?
Answer-
Card holder, merchant, acquirer and certificate management systems.
7. What does SET stand for?
Answer-
Secure Electronic Transaction.
8. What is meant by integrity of data?9. List the key functions of SET specifica
tion.
Answer-
The contents should not get changed.
10. Lisy the major business requirements addressed by SEPP.
Answer-
11. Explain S-HTTP and SSL protocols.
Answer-
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CHAPTER-11(Secure Electronic Transaction)
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