Exam Guide for 1D0-425 CIW E-Commerce Designer
Note: The CIW E-Commerce Designer exam 1D0-425 was retired on June 30, 2006. The CIW v5 E-Commerce Designer exam 1D0-525 was released April 30, 2006. Please see the Exam Guide page for exam 1D0-525. This page remains available for candidates who have already taken 1D0-425.
- Credit Toward Certification
- Prerequisites
- Exam Information
- Skills Measured
- Exam Preparation Tools
- Exam Retake Policy
- Exam Retirement
CREDIT TOWARD CERTIFICATION
Passing the CIW E-Commerce Designer exam 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 earn the following CIW certification:
- CIW Professional
PREREQUISITES
The following are required for candidates taking the CIW Site Designer exam:
- The CIW Certification Agreement is required for CIW certification eligibility. The candidate must submit this agreement after taking the exam by logging on as a CIW Candidate to the CIW Candidate Information Center. This agreement needs to be completed only once, but no CIW certification will be awarded without it, even if the candidate passes the exam.
- Earning the CIW Associate certificate by passing the CIW Foundations exam 1D0-410 or the CIW v5 Foundations exam 1D0-510 is required for those candidates seeking CIW Professional and Master CIW Designer certification designation.
- Passing the CIW Site Designer exam 1D0-420 or the CIW v5 Site Designer exam 1D0-520 is required for those candidates seeking Master CIW Designer certification designation.
No candidate is restricted from taking the CIW E-Commerce Professional exam. However, it is highly recommended that candidates take (and pass) CIW exams in sequential order.
CIW E-Commerce Professional certification is a requirement for Master CIW Designer certification.
EXAM INFORMATION
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. |
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 answer choices (one correct answer and three distracters). Exam candidates must select the one best solution for each item.
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.
EXAM PREPARATION TOOLS
Official Curriculum
Instructor-Led Training: E-Commerce Strategies and Practices
Practice Exam Sites
CIW does not endorse Web sites that list study guides or practice questions for CIW exams. All CIW examinations are copyrighted material. To maintain the security and value of our program, we reserve the right to decertify and/or prohibit from examinations any individuals who republish or distribute our copyrighted certification exam questions.
Official Practice Exams
Official CIW Online Practice Exams allow students and instructors to instantly evaluate the level of IT knowledge achieved. This tool provides students with an additional method of review and assessment to enhance the learning experience. It can also be used as a pre-assessment, practice exam and quiz administration tool to help instructors evaluate their students' knowledge.
Third-Party Practice Exams
Additional exam preparation tools are available from Self Test Software and MeasureUp, organizations that have developed practice tests to help candidates prepare for the CIW E-commerce Designer exam.
Third-Party Books, Web Sites, or Newsgroups
The following resources are provided as supplements to your studies, and will reinforce the skills and concepts learned with CIW official E-Commerce Designer course materials.
- Fellenstein, Craig, and Ron Wood. Exploring E-commerce, Global E-business and E-solutions. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000.
- Microsoft Mastering. eCommerce Development: Business to Consumer. Microsoft Press, 1999
- Minoli, Daniel, and Emma Minoli. Web Commerce Technology Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1998.
- Current Issues in Web Usability
- goodexperience.com
- internet.com's electronic commerce guide
- CommerceNet
EXAM RETAKE POLICY
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.
EXAM RETIREMENT
The CIW E-Commerce Designer exam 1D0-425 will be retired in summer 2006. The CIW v5 E-Commerce Designer exam 1D0-525 will be released in early 2006.
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