Exercise 4: Chapter 2 Review questions

1. Describe the IP protocol. What is DNS?
2. Describe the TCP protocol. How is it related to the IP protocol?
3. Differentiate between intranets and extranets.
   
4. Describe the different elements of HTTP protocol.
   
5. What do you know about building e-business applications as an Intranet, Extranet, Web portal, B2B, B2C or Virtual Private Network (VPN)? Find some examples on the Web.
6. What role can a VPN play in business-to-business e-commerce?

Exercise 3: Finding some common ground

1. Describe the steps involved with the Rapid Evolutionary Prototyping Approach as it applies to developing a Web application.

Exercise 2: Technology and the evolution of business options

1. Web quest: Find a range of five sites each offering different business options: online shopping, electronic payments, database access, WAP sites for mobile phones. Key words for your search engine: M-commerce, T-commerce and E-wallet.

Exercise 1: Analysis of the online communities paradigm

1. Visit http://yahoo.com and http://zope.org as examples of online communities.

     a. What is meant by an online community and how is it important for e-commerce?
     b. Visit the three auctions sites at http://ebay.com, http://ebay.co.uk and http://ebay.com.au:
         i.   Is there a common thread and a local community sense in action?
         ii.  What electronic payment systems are used? Are they globally acceptable?
         iii. What are the benefits to of an online auction sale to a buyer, a seller and E-bay owners?
     c. Find three others examples of an online business using an online community approach.

2. Visit the famous online store front at http://www.amazon.com
    a. Why has it been a successful site? How does the purchase of a book work?
    b. Is there any secure transactions not involving money?
    c. What is the range of items that you can buy?
        i. List the steps involved and comment.

Introduction: A little about me

This is my 5th trimester in my masters with CSU. I have almost 20 years working in local government, with a few years contract work in the private sector. I predominantly work with Microsoft products and .net technologies, mostly winform applications. I have started a blog once before but any interest I had died out after about 2 days. Most likely due to the blog not having a focus or direction. I am looking forward to this subject, and I can see it will have direct implications with what I do at work.