Exam Guide for 1D0-425
E-commerce Designer
CIW E-Commerce Designer 1D0-425 is a requirement for the following CIW
certifications:
- CIW Certified Instructor - for those teaching CIW E-Commerce Designer
content.
- Master CIW Designer.
CIW Associates who pass the CIW E-Commerce Designer exam (or any other CIW
job role series exam) also achieve the following CIW certification:
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Students who have taken CIW courses are encouraged to continue their studies
and apply their new skills before attempting the 1D0-425 E-Commerce Designer
exam. Skills taught in the CIW E-Commerce Designer courses are best reinforced
with real-world experience.
The candidate is responsible for learning the content and achieving a passing
score on the CIW E-Commerce Designer exam. Comments regarding course delivery
should be referred to the training company that delivered the course.
Any 1D0-425 CIW E-Commerce Designer exam taken on or after August 27, 2001
will be subject to the following:
- Each delivery of the exam will include 10 non-scored beta items, appearing
randomly.
- The examination period will be increased from 75 minutes to 90 minutes.
| Examination Version |
Date Published |
Exam Notes |
| CIW E-Commerce Designer 1D0-425 |
August 2001 |
This version contains 10 non-scored beta items and 60 scored items.
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To achieve a passing score on the exam, candidates must:
- Correctly answer at least 45 of the 60 scored questions to achieve a total
score of 75% or greater.
This scoring method does not apply to
E-Commerce Designer examinations taken before August 27, 2001.
| Total Scored Items - randomly delivered |
60 |
| Beta items - randomly delivered throughout exam |
10 |
| Total Items |
70 |
Each exam item offers four solutions or distracters where exam candidates
select the best solution for each item.
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SKILLS MEASURED
A CIW E-Commerce Designer focuses on standards, technologies and practices
for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce models. This
individual understands and facilitates relationships among marketing, promotion,
customer service, user interaction, purchasing methods, and secure transactions
by using SSL and SET, payment gateways, inventory control, shipping and order
information and site performance testing and evaluation.
- Electronic commerce (e-commerce) trends and statistics.
- Business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce.
- E-commerce vs. traditional sales methods.
- Considerations of launching an electronic commerce Web site, including
hardware, software, bandwidth, in-house hosting and outsourcing.
- Generating revenue on the Internet and payment collection for the
Internet.
- Security issues and legal aspects of e-commerce, including but not limited
to jurisdiction, copyright, intellectual property, taxation, and software
patents.
- E-commerce marketing goals and online marketing strategies.
- Drivers and barriers to growth and advantages and disadvantages of hard
goods and soft goods.
- Product pricing ranges and price changes and determine global versus niche
product appeal.
- Internet demographics, product distribution, banner ads, exchange networks
and referrer programs.
- Search engine placement and e-mail marketing.
- Usability and factors affecting usability, including but not limited to
screen flow, click patterns, and customer services (FAQ and e-mail).
- E-services and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) including the
ability to formulate a CRM action plan and customer surveys.
- Synchronous and asynchronous services.
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Open Buying on the Internet (OBI), and
the Open Trading Protocol.
- Business-to-business networks.
- Supply chain and procurement and vertical and horizontal markets.
- Instant storefronts, including but not limited to entry-level packages for
creating and managing electronic commerce storefronts.
- Online electronic commerce packages, including but not limited to
mid-level and high-level outsourcing solutions for electronic commerce site
creation.
- Web site development software, web server software, virtual directories,
virtual servers, and multiple IP addresses.
- Database needs and requirements.
- Development software configuration.
- Catalog design and components of online catalogs.
- Shopping cart implementation, including but not limited to shipping,
taxation requirements and fulfillment tracking.
- Payment methods and payment gateways, including but not limited to
accepting credit cards, verifying payment gateways, online transaction
information and credit card process transactions.
- Knowledge database installation, population, integration and
administration.
- Encryption schemes including but not limited to symmetric, asymmetric and
one-way.
- Security implementations including but not limited to hashing, message
digests and digital signatures.
- Certificate-related infrastructure and digital certificates.
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) and
secure ordering pages of a site.
- Server monitoring and optimization.
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The CIW Exam Retake Policy outlines the conditions under which a candidate
may retake a CIW exam. A waiting period between retakes of a single
certification exam maintains the security of the exam and strengthens the value
of the CIW certification. Each CIW exam is defined by a unique exam ID (e.g.,
IDO-410). A retake is any subsequent sitting of an exam with the same CIW exam
ID by the same candidate at any authorized testing center.
In the event that a candidate passes a CIW exam, the candidate will not be
allowed to retake that CIW exam. If the CIW exam objectives change, the exam ID
changes to reflect the new exam version. Candidates who have passed an exam may
sit a newer version of the exam that may have the same title but a different ID
number.
In the event that a candidate fails a CIW exam on his or her first attempt, a
24-hour waiting period is required between the first and second sittings of that
CIW exam. Candidates are required to wait for a period of no less than thirty
(30) calendar days from the date of the previous sitting before any third or
subsequent sitting of the same CIW exam.
Exams administered in any ways that do not comply with the CIW Exam Retake
Policy shall be considered invalid and ineligible for a refund.
In the event that a candidate has violated this Exam Retake Policy, the
candidate may be deemed ineligible to register for or schedule any CIW exam for
a minimum period of twelve (12) months from the date of such determination.
In addition, any candidate determined to have violated the CIW Exam Retake
Policy may be subject to any or all of the following:
- Denial of a specific CIW certification for a period of twelve (12) months
from the date of such determination;
- Revocation of a specific CIW certification, if such certification had been
previously granted to the candidate;
- Revocation of all CIW certifications previously granted to the candidate;
- Ineligibility to receive any CIW certification for a minimum of twelve
(12) months from the date of such determination;
- Any other appropriate actions, including legal remedies, deemed necessary
or appropriate to enforce the CIW Exam Retake Policy.
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No retirement date has
been announced for exam 1DO-425.
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