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Unit 5: Intranet and Extranet for E-Commerce

(b) __________________ include general trading reports that assist the users to develop business
plans.

(i) Commercial transactions messages
(ii) Report and planning messages
(iii) Master data messages
(iv) General messages
(c) _______________ represent EAN numbers used for identifying the items.
(i) EANCOM

(ii) EAN location number
(iii) Bar codes
(iv) Article numbering
(d) The ___________ enables automation of stocktaking and inventory control thereby reducing
the time taken to order, receive, and dispatch goods.

(i) Intranet
(ii) Check digit
(iii) Internet bandwidth
(iv) EAN system
(e) _______________deals with wide range of online business activities for products and
services.
(i) Internet
(ii) Extranet
(iii) Electronic commerce
(iv) Intranet
5.7 Review Questions

1. “E-Commerce on the Internet faces a number of challenges.” Discuss.
2. “Intranets have a number of advantages over the traditional network communications for a
business.” Justify.
3. “EAN and its Numbering Organizations develop and maintain EANCOM messages.” Analyze.

4. “An intranet has to be designed for the specific functional requirements of an organization.”
Discuss.
5. “The growth of e-commerce depends on the reliability, bandwidth and security of the Internet.”
Justify.
6. “The EAN numbering system assures unique and clear identification of articles.” Discuss.
7. “The bandwidth issues related to Internet are managed by networking standards such as
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and TCP/IP suite of protocols for interconnection.” Justify.
8. “An organization can obtain numerous benefits by using an intranet.” Justify.

9. “An intranet promotes the management of internal corporate information that may be
interconnected with a company’s e-commerce transactions.” Analyze.
10. “Bar codes represent EAN numbers used for identifying the items.” Justify.
11. “The EAN system uses unique numbers to identify items, services, or locations.” Discuss.

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