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Subject: E- Commerce Subject Code: BSIT - 62 Assignment: TA (Compulsory) 1) What are the categories of operations under E-Commerce? Explain.

Ans: You can classify e-commerce into five main categories. 1) Business to Consumer (B2C) The B2C model is one of the widely used tools in the ecommerce industry. The pattern is very simple and easy. The marketers sell their products to the retailers who in turn sell them to the consumers. The B2C which was started around 15 years back wasnt looked upon as a very efficient system for boosting commercial sales, but over a period of time the popularity and efficiency has been recognized by most business merchants and it has also been looked upon as time and cost saving factor. 2) Business to Business (B2B) B2B is one of the high level businesses involving heavy capital and transactions worth trillions of dollars. Under this form of e-commerce the buying and selling takes place only between two businesses without the involvement of the consumer. The end product is purchased by one business from another and then sold to the consumer under their brand name. A watch manufacturing company might just purchase accessories from a manufacturer and sell them under her name. Major companies which already have a global name purchase manufactured products and then sell them to the retailers under their brand name. 3) Consumer to Consumer (C2C) The C2C format is a very simple transaction which takes place between two consumers. There many online sites which have made such transactions easy and possible. Consumers can directly make a purchase on any online site and have the product shipped directly to another consumer. 4) Peer to Peer (P2P) This is a very efficient medium of e-commerce which allows to share vital information. The consumers or businesses can send across different kinds of files and information which can be downloaded immediately and made use of. This doesnt generate much revenue as there is a lot of piracy taking place due to the invention of P2P clients. People illegally share music files and movies by uploading them on the websites which gets easily accessible to all clients using the different torrents. The one sharing the file and the one receiving it, both have to install this torrent and get connected to each other.

5) m-Commerce this is a very effective way of transferring information or even conducting business transactions. Almost every application is available for download on the mobile phone today. Even banks offer mobile banking facilities, while you can even do stock trading and booking of airline and railway tickets. M-commerce has become a major source for revenue generation for many organizations today. The internet is easily accessible on the mobile phone which makes it all the more easy for the businessmen and consumers to contact each other even when they are on the move and not gaining any access to the computer. Mobile generation has revolutionized e-commerce completely to a whole dimension of trade and commerce.

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What is the role of encryption in E-Commerce? Explain. Ans: Encryption is a generic term that refers to the act of encoding data, in this context so that those data can be securely transmitted via the Internet. As Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School put it, "Here is something that will sound very extreme but is at most, I think, a slight exaggeration: encryption technologies are the most important technological breakthrough in the last one thousand years." Encryption can protect the data at the simplest level by preventing other people from reading the data. In the event that someone intercepts a data transmission and manages to deceive any user identification scheme, the data that they see appears to be gibberish without a way to decode it. Encryption technologies can help in other ways as well, by establishing the identity of users (or abusers); control the unauthorized transmission or forwarding of data; verify the integrity of the data (i.e., that it has not been altered in any way); and ensure that users take responsibility for data that they have transmitted. Encryption can therefore be used either to keep communications secret (defensively) or to identify people involved in communications (offensively).

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Explain the architecture frame work of electronic commerce? Ans: architectural framework means synthesizing of various existing resources like databases,computer languages,software agent based transaction,monitors on communication protocol to facilitate the integration of data and software for better application.

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List the OMCs [order Management Cycle] generic steps. Explain Mercantile models from the merchats perspective?

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What are the three types electronic tokens? Explain. What is e-cash give the properties of e-cash.

Assignment: TB (Compulsory)

PART - A Answer ALL questions : 1. Explain different operations carried out in e-commerce. Ans : There are many basic activities made possible by e-commerce.
1. centralizing the banking system 2. maintaining the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model 3. regulating the exchange rate 4. reducing inflation 5. federalizes the assets and liabilities of the public sector, leading to a higher overall GNP

2. What are the basic banking services provided in e-commerce ? 3. Explain the three stages of e-commerce architecture on web ? 4. What are the desirable characteristics of an electronic market place ? 5. Explain electronic tokens present in payment systems. PART - B 1. a) How does the commence and e-commerce are related ? Explain. Ans: E-commerce, in the popular sense, can be defined as: the use of the Internet and the Web to conduct business transactions. A more technical definition would be: e-commerce involves digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individuals. E- commerce differs from e-business in that no commercial transaction, an exchange of value across organizational or individual boundaries, takes place in ebusiness. E-business is the digital enablement of transactions and processes within a firm and therefore does not include any exchange in value. E-commerce and e-business intersect at the business firm boundary at the point where internal business systems link up with suppliers. For instance, e-business turns into e-commerce when an exchange of value occurs across firm boundaries. b) What are the desirable characteristics of e-commerce ? 2. a) Explain the architecture frame work of electronic commerce ? b) List the OMCs (order management cycle) generic steps. 3. a) Explain merchantile models from the merchants perspective. b) What are the normal constraints put on e-cash ? 4. a) What is e-cash give the properties of e-cash ? b) What is electronic pulse? Explain. 5. a) Compare push and pull based supply chains?

b) What is meant by integrity of data ? 6. a) What do you mean by value added networks (VANs)? Explain. b) List the four advantages of internet. Explain. 7. a) Explain the legal and security aspects of EDI. b) Draw and explain EDI business application layer. 8. Write a short note on : a) Security tools b) Secure socket layer (SSL) c) Cryptography.