Exam 2: CIW E-Commerce Designer

Yvonne has received reports that the Web server she administers has been responding slowly to page requests, and often responds so slowly that requested pages are never received. After reviewing the server logs, Yvonne determines that the Web server has received more than 1 billion requests sent to a nonexistent port. The Web server is the target of:

Customers use your company's software to receive real-time weather reports. One of the company's software developers has proposed creating a second application that installs at the same time as the weather software, but operates in the background and reports user preferences and other information to your company. What is the name for this type of application?

Which of the following is a common cause of a buffer overflow?

Carly has requested a digital certificate for her Web site. Instructions for downloading and installing the new certificate will be:

You are logged on to a Linux system. You suspect a problem with the system's MySQL database server. Which of the following files will contain relevant information pertaining to the failure?

Isabelle, a site administrator, has just analyzed her Web site's traffic and discovered that many users abandon the site when they reach a particular page. Which source of Web site data can Isabelle use to analyze this pattern?

Jennifer placed a special product advertisement on the home page of her e-commerce site. After one week, she reviewed her server logs to see how many visitors clicked the ad, completed the registration page and then entered credit card information to purchase the product. Jennifer's site path analysis is a review of:

What is the result of an e-commerce HTTP server that processes the input queue at a rate equal to or greater than that of incoming requests?

You have just obtained a signed digital certificate from a certificate authority. What is the next step you should take?

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?

Which of the following is submitted to identify each person who handles evidence after a site infiltration?

Which of the following describes a targeted marketing program?

Which of the following segments first used blogs as an Internet marketing tool?

Suppose you were using statistical software to evaluate the performance of various HTTP server packages. What would be the most efficient way to compare performance data accurately?

Which of the following is a common design principle for a frequently asked questions (FAQ) page on an e-commerce site?

Which of the following is most essential when setting a marketing goal for an e-commerce site?

You have posted your e-commerce site on a staging server. Which of the following most effectively ensures that your site will provide a satisfying experience for users?

User-tracking services can provide data about site visitors. Which of the following types of data are collected by tracking services?

Which of the following statements about PayPal is accurate?

Increasing the ability of a Web server to support a greater workload by increasing the resources on the server (for example, memory, processor speed, number of processors) is known as: