a) Consider the task of designing a Web server that will target specifically E-commerce, with the

objective of accommodating a number of merchant sites, each consisting of a catalog, shopping

cart, payment system interfacing with a credit card company, customer profiles repository

based on previous transactions, and a recommender system.

Required:

Briefly discuss the various architectural suggestions you would consider

[6 Marks]

b) What are the different strategies used for developing E-commerce websites? [4 Marks]

QUESTION TWO (10 MARKS)

a) What are different methods by which security for server computers are provided? [4 Marks]

b) What is electronic data interchange? Comment on how supply chain management is used with

E Commerce.

[6 Marks]