What is the name of the electronic funds transfer (EFT) system governed by the United States and designed to provide the clearing of electronic payments between banks?
A. The National Clearing House (NCH) network
B. The Automated Clearing House (ACH) network
C. The Receiving Depository Financial Institution (RDFI)
D. The Originating Depository Financial Institution (ODFI)
What is the term for using a single secret key to both encrypt and decrypt your data?
A. Hash encryption
B. Binary-key encryption
C. Symmetric-key encryption
D. Asymmetric-key encryption
Which of the following pieces of information will best help you determine the number of transactions your database server can accommodate?
A. Maximum uptime requirements
B. Minimum installation requirements
C. The number of database tables required
D. The number of concurrent user connections
Which of the following segments first used blogs as an Internet marketing tool?
A. Small businesses
B. Large corporations
C. Government agencies
D. Mainstream advertisers
Online credit-card transactions require a payment gateway. Payment gateway software can be installed on your Web server or hosted online. After you install a payment gateway, you must:
A. develop an effective marketing strategy.
B. install the e-commerce database system.
C. select and establish a compatible merchant account.
D. configure the gateway to work with your e-commerce server.
Which of the following requires you to provide redundant Internet connections to ensure site availability?
A. Instant storefront
B. In-house storefront
C. Mid-level offline storefront
D. High-level offline storefront
A customer has placed an online order. The order has been written to a database for processing and the customer's credit card has been charged. What is the last interaction with the customer during the order process?
A. Update the customer profile.
B. Redirect the customer to the home page.
C. Send a confirmation e-mail message to the customer.
D. Send a shipping notification via e-mail to the customer.
The details of an e-commerce site order can be kept in memory, stored on the visitor's computer or stored on the Web server. This ability to remember the details of an order is known as: A. profiling an order.
B. tracking an order.
C. persisting an order.
D. filling the shopping cart.
You need to enable SSL/TLS on a Web server for a virtual directory. You have just installed a signed digital certificate from a certificate authority. What is the next step you should take?
A. Place a copy of the certificate in the virtual directory as a hidden file.
B. Specify that you want to use the certificate to sign the virtual directory.
C. Specify that you want to use SSL/TLS for the Web server's virtual directory.
D. Place the digital certificate in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store.
After using your Web browser to test a few purchases on your staging server, you find that the shopping cart has carried forward purchases from several earlier transactions. What steps should you take first to solve this problem?
A. Close and reopen the browser, and then use the shopping cart again.
B. Delete the system DSN and re-create it, and then use the shopping cart again.
C. Test your e-commerce software on the production server, and then use the shopping cart again.
D. Delete the database and reinstall it using the same parameters, and then use the shopping cart again.