e-Business Part 3: Choosing Tools and Technologies

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Summary: e-Business Part 3: Choosing Tools and Technologies
Review: Course Overview
The third course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the tools, languages and technologies that help drive the e-Business infrastructure. It also covers the strengths and weaknesses of each tool, language and technology. It also covers higher-level software and hardware choices such as web browsers, web servers, web application servers and web enabled databases.

Learn To

Identify browser types.
Identify the capabilities of browsers.
Identify the impact of browsers on e-Business.
Identify programming methods.
Match the programming languages suitable for e-Business with their characteristics.
Identify the features of Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL) that make it a suitable language for e-Business.
Identify the factors to consider when selecting a suitable Web platform for your e-Business.
Identify the factors to consider when selecting a Web server/OS combination.
Identify the benefits of using Web application servers for e-Business.

Audience
The target audience is those individuals tasked with planning/ implementing e-Business strategies within an organization (primarily technical and business managers, as opposed to programmers, network engineers, etc.). Students should have prior understanding of business principles and knowledge of how to use a browser.

Deployment Options
e-Learning

Accreditation
NASBA credits: 4 CPE Credits
CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs

Language Options
US English

Total Learning Time
7 hours

Objectives
Unit 1: Internet Technologies 3 hours

Identify browser types.
Identify the capabilities of browsers.
Identify the impact of browsers on e-Business.
Identify future trends for browser development.
Identify the features of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
Identify the components of the Document Object Model (DOM).
Identify the characteristics of Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHTML).
Identify the characteristics of Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Identify the benefits of upgrading from Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Identify the standards that extend Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Identify the functions of Extensible Markup Language (XML) in e-Business.
Identify network application performance issues in an e-Business environment.
Identify bandwidth options.
Identify bandwidth considerations for e-Business sites.
Identify the factors to consider when estimating server load.
Identify the factors to consider when sizing hardware.
Identify the benefits of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for e-Business.

Unit 2: Core Technologies 2 hours

Identify programming methods.
Match the programming languages suitable for e-Business with their characteristics.
Identify the features of Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL) that make it a suitable language for e-Business.
Identify the features of Visual Basic (VB) that make it a suitable language for e-Business.
Identify the features of Java that make it a suitable language for e-Business.
Identify the features of JavaScript that make it a suitable language for e-Business.
Identify the features of C and C++ that make them suitable languages for e-Business.
Identify the characteristics of the Netscape browser series.
Identify the characteristics of the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.
Identify features of browser options.
Identify issues involved in managing large numbers of Web pages.
Identify the features of cascading style sheets (CSS) that are relevant to e-Business.
Identify the features of the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and the Distributed interNet Architecture (DNA).
Identify the features of Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP).
Identify the features that distinguish Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) from Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM).

Unit 3: Server Platforms and Applications 2 hours

Identify the factors to consider when selecting a suitable Web platform for your e-Business.
Identify the factors to consider when selecting a Web server/OS combination.
Identify the benefits of using Web application servers for e-Business.
Identify Unix Web server options.
Identify features of Microsoft Windows Web servers.
Identify the features of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Identify the features of the Common Gateway Interface (CGI).
Identify the characteristics of Server Side Includes (SSs).
Identify features of Active Server Pages (ASP).