Chapter 9 - E-Commerce Software

Question 1

______ often offers Web server management and rent application software to businesses.

Answer 1

Commerce service providers

Question 2

A _____ is a listing of goods and services.

Answer 2

Catalog

Question 3

In the early days of electronic commerce, shoppers selected items they wanted to purchase by _______.

Answer 3

Filling out online forms

Question 4

In a shopping cart, clicking the checkout button usually displays a screen that asks for ______ and shipping information.

Answer 4

Billing

Question 5

The web is a ______ system, unable to remember anything from one transmission or session to another.

Answer 5

Stateless

Question 6

One way to uniquely identify users and store information about their choices is to create and store _______.

Answer 6

Cookies

Question 7

Large information systems that store the same data in many different physical locations are called ________ information systems.

Answer 7

Distributed

Question 8

______ is a message passing protocol that defines how to send marked-up data from one software application to another across a network.

Answer 8

SOAP

Question 9

_____ is used to describe the characteristics of the logic units that make up specific web services.

Answer 9

WSDL

Question 10

WebSphere Commerce Suite is produced by ______.

Answer 10

IBM