INSY 3330 EXAM 1 REVIEW;
Ch 4 questions and answers
outsourcing - answer hiring an outside vendor to provide the
services you cannot perform with in-house personnel
WordPress - answer open source content management and website
design tool
a website development tool with a sophisticated content
management system.
content management system (CMS) - answer organizes, stores, and
processes website content
a database software program specifically designed to manage
structured and unstructured data and objects in a website environ-
ment.
A CMS provides web managers and designers - answer with a
centralized control structure to manage website content.
co-location - answer when a firm purchases or leases a web server
(and has total control over its operation) but locates the server in a
vendor's phys- ical facility. The vendor maintains the facility,
communications lines, and the machinery
Co-location involves renting physical space for your hardware. -
answer True
The cost of pure hosting has fallen as fast as the fall in server
prices. - answer True
, system architecture - answer the arrangement of soft- ware,
machinery, and tasks in an information system needed to achieve a
specific functionality
Web application servers - answer are specialized software
programs that perform a wide variety of transaction processing
required by e-commerce.
backend or legacy - answer older databases that predate the e-
commerce era
two-tier architecture - answer e-commerce system archi- tecture in
which a web server responds to requests for web pages and a
database server provides backend data storage
multi-tier architecture - answer e-commerce system archi- tecture
in which the web server is linked to a middle- tier layer that
typically includes a series of applica- tion servers that perform
specific tasks as well as a backend layer of existing corporate
systems
site management tools - answer verify that links on pages are still
valid and also identify orphan files
Site management tools can help you understand consumer behavior
on your website. - answer True
dynamic page generation - answer the contents of a web page are
stored as objects in a database, rather than being hard-coded in
HTML. When the user requests a web page, the contents for that
page are then fetched from the database
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