- Briefly explain the electronic transaction act of Nepal.
- What are some of the factors driving the growth of social e-commerce?
- How provisions relating to digital certificates are defined in the electronic transaction act of Nepal?
- Describe the factors that make U-commerce different from M-commerce?
- What do the properties like ubiquitous, richness, and information density in e-commerce means? Support your answer with an example.
- How pure e-commerce differs from partial e-commerce? Support your answer with proper examples.
Unit 2: E-commerce Business Model
- What is B 2 B e-commerce? Discuss various B 2 B business models.
- How are exchanges different from industry consortiums?
- What is competitive advantage in a business model? How can firms achieve competitive advantage using dimensions of asymmetry, complementary resources, perfect market and leverage?
- What is EDI? Describe the significance of EDI in e-commerce? Justify your answer with an example.
- What is e-commerce business model? Describe the key elements of e-commerce business model.
- What is industry value chain? Mention the generic players in the value chain.
- What is EDI? How EDI is used in ecommerce. How EDI has influenced information flow in international trade?
- Explain different types of B2C business models with examples.
- Describe firm value chain and form value web. Mention their significance in e-commerce.
Unit 3: Electronic Payment System
- What is a dual signature? Describe the dual signature operations? How is dual signature used during purchase request operation of SET protocol?
- What is an e-payment system? How do online credit card transactions work?
- What is a digital wallet? How does it work? Describe the payment authorization and payment capture operations of SET.
- What is virtual currency? How does it work? Mention the usages of virtual currency in e-commerce.
- What is e-payment? Discuss how credit card transactions, electronic checks and stored value\npayment system work. Mention their pros and cons
- What is digital wallet? How it works?
- What is digital wallet? How it can be used in ecommerce? What issues need to be considered while designing electronic payment system?
- Describe how electronic payments are done using digital cash, e-checks, and electronic billing presentment and payment systems. List their advantages and disadvantages.
- How auctioning is done In e-commerce? Discuss different types of auctioning.
Unit 4: Building E-commerce System
- What are the basic elements to be considered while developing an e-commerce website?
- What is catalog in e-commerce? How are catalogs created?
- Why it is important to build catalogs in e-commerce systems? How static catalog differs from dynamic catalog?
Unit 5: Security in E-Commerce
- How cryptography and hash functions are used in e-commerce to ensure security.
- What is adware? How is the SSL protocol used in e-commerce?
- What is an intrusion? How intrusion detection systems are used to ensure security in e-commerce?
- What is social engineering? How access control mechanisms are used in e-commerce for authorization?
- What are the security threats in e-commerce? How client server and data transactions securities are maintained in e-commerce?
- Define malicious code. How the potentially unwanted programs like adware and spyware works?
- What is cryptography? How cryptography can be used to ensure data and message transaction security in ecommerce?
- Why it is essential to enforce security in e-commerce? Discuss the different dimensions of e-commerce security from consumer and merchant perspectives.
- What is identity theft? How spoofing and pharming can impact e-commerce trades?
Unit 6: Digital Marketing
- What is digital marketing? Why is it essential in e-commerce? How do marketing metrics like click-through rate, bounce-back rate and conversion rate influence E-mail marketing?
- How social marketing, mobile marketing and local marketing are used in e-commerce to promote business.
- What is display ad marketing? How attrition rate, view-to-cart ratio, acquisition rate and retention rate influence display ad marketing?
- How fan acquisition, amplification and brand strengthening is done using Facebook marketing tools?
- Discuss different pricing models for online advertisements
- How facebook exchanges, reaction buttons and sponsored message are used for social\nmarketing and advertisement.
- Describe how rich pins, promoted pins and cinematic pins are used in Pinterest Marketing?
- Discuss the concepts behind the online marketing metrics like impressions, Click-through rate, and page views.
Unit 7: Optimizing E-commerce Systems
- Describe the working mechanism of search engines.
- What is the significance of recommendation systems in e-commerce? How is collaborative filtering different from content based?
- What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? How on page SEO can be done?
- Why it is essential to perform Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? How off page SEO can be done?
- What is the significance of doing Google analytics and social media analytics in e-commerce? How they are done?
Miscellaneous / Cross-Chapter Questions
- What does omni-channel mean in terms of e-commerce presence? Justify with an example
- What is media convergence in ecommerce? How it influence ecommerce? Discuss technological and market factors that drive media convergence.
- What are the different types of digital documents used in corporate library?
- What is I-way? What market forces influence the I-way?
- Discuss the post-purchase interaction involved in mercantile process from customers perspective.
- How WWW architecture encompasses the global hypertext publishing, universal reader, and client-server concepts?
