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E-Commerce Exam Notes:

• Definition of electronic commerce.
• Differences between B2B and B2C.
• What are the advantages of electronic commerce and why are they advantageous?
• Describe some of the challenges to Electronic Commerce.
• Virtual Area Networks and their involvement with the Internet.
• Know the ingredients to a successful storefront and the primary concern with each ingredient.
• Cash model vs. check model vs. credit model.
• In-house vs. Instant storefront. Offline instant storefront vs. online instant storefront.
• Direct contributions that Electronic Publishing made to copyright, trademark, & patent issues.
• What are the areas of liability in Electronic Publishing?
• Describe the jurisdiction issues in electronic commerce.
• Understand the main purposes of security: data confidentiality, authentication & identification, access control, data integrity, non-repudiation.
• Know the three primary factors in encryption strength.
• Describe asymmetric, symmetric, and one-way encryption, including message digests.
• Know the major algorithm examples for asymmetric, symmetric, and one-way encryptions.
• Private keys vs. public keys.
• How secret keys and public keys are used.
• Speed & distribution issues in regards to asymmetric and symmetric encryption.
• Advantages of security.
• Describe the process of authentication and identification.
• Steps and components involved in verifying digital certificates of an e-business.
• Purpose of digital id's.
• Certificate Authorities and their hierarchy.
• Know all of the following: EDI, S/MIME, OBI, OTP, & SET.
• Implementation of EDI in regards to B2B and B2C.
• Where did EDI start in regards to networks; how did it evolve.
• What certificate(s) are required by SSL?
• Advantages and disadvantages of SSL from an electronic commerce standpoint (i.e. security issues in regards to credit card information).
• How to provide seamless secure communication.
• Definition of electronic commerce site security.
• Cryptography's involvement in SET.
• Payment & security requirements/issues:
  1. Confidentiality of payment information.
  2. Payment information integrity.
  3. Account holder authentication.
  4. Merchant authentication.
  5. Interoperability.
• Definition of "bugs" in relationship to computers.
• How to implement secure Intranet environments for internal personnel.
• What are some of the vulnerabilities in firewalls that are meant to protect networks?
• Understand the payment processes involved in Net.Commerce vs. Site Server Commerce Edition.
• Know the primary factors of administering a Web site.
• Understand what parts of Net.Commerce are capable of being customized.
• Describe the design goals of an electronic commerce Web site.
• Auction sites are an important alternative to electronic commerce.
• Know Site Server's administration interfaces.
• Understanding the payment and purchase order process and the participants.