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Provided by: Serebra Learning Corporation e-Business Part 2: Building the InfrastructureTeam Building |
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The second course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on technical infrastructure needed to support an e-Business initiative. It focuses on the sub-application level examining network and protocol options and requirements. It introduces some of the major players in the market and business drivers that could affect an organization's choices.
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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.). Course prerequisites are an understanding of business principles and knowledge of how to use a browser.
Objective
- Identify the stages in the development of the Internet.
- Identify Internet applications.
- Identify Internet products and services that can be used in business
- Identify the considerations for planning Web architectures in an eBusiness.
- Identify the main hardware platforms.
- Match each major operating system with its key characteristic.
- Identify business standards associated with eBusiness.
- Identify the features of electronic data interchange.
- Identify the features of modern datamapping.
- Identify standards for integrated purchasing.
- Sequence the stages in a typical online transaction.
- Identify Extensible Markup Language (XML) industry standards.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Internet Architecture
- Identify the stages in the development of the Internet.
- Identify Internet applications.
- Identify Internet products and services that can be used in business.
- Identify current e-Business developments in XML and WAP.
- Identify global structures of the Internet.
- Identify the features of Internet backbone providers.
- Identify Internet routing issues.
- Identify the features of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
- Identify the features of point-to-point protocol (PPP).
- Identify networking protocols for local area networks (LANs).
- Identify Internet Protocol (IP) addressing issues.
- Identify the features of Internet Protocol version 6.
- Identify the features of the Domain Name System (DNS).
- Identify the features of a dynamic Domain Name System (DNS).
Unit 2: Technology Options
- Identify the considerations for planning Web architectures in an e-Business.
- Identify the main hardware platforms.
- Match each major operating system with its key characteristic.
- Identify the features of service providers.
- Identify the features of wide-band telecommunication connections.
- Identify the features of local connection infrastructure.
- Identify the features of platform infrastructure.
- Identify growth issues in an e-Business environment.
- Identify the range of services used in an e-Business environment.
- Identify the costs associated with establishing an e-Business site.
Unit 3: Software Component Standards
- Identify business standards associated with e-Business.
- Identify the features of electronic data interchange.
- Identify the features of modern data-mapping.
- Identify Extensible Markup Language (XML) data transformation types.
- Identify common data access methods recommended for use in an e-Business environment.
- Identify the features of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).
- Identify remote data access techniques.
- Identify basic data transfer methods.
- Identify the leading distributed-object architectures.
- Identify features of basic security protocols.
- Identify the features of mail extension security.
- Identify public key security standards.
Unit 4: Application Integrations
- Identify standards for integrated purchasing.
- Sequence the stages in a typical online transaction.
- Identify Extensible Markup Language (XML) industry standards.
- Identify the key functions of supply chain management.
- Identify the benefits of Value-Added Networks (VANs).
- Identify the benefits of virtual private networks.
- Identify legacy systems in an e-Business environment.
Duration
8
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
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Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada

