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 Q1. What is acugload?IBM WCS
Ans. acugload is the utility to load the user access group in the appropriate database.

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 Q2. What are the tag libraries used in WCS ? IBM WCS
Ans. Core tags, sql , xml and fmt tags.

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 Q3. Is it necessary to register controller command in CMDREG table ? IBM WCS
Ans. It is not necessary to enter data in the CMDREG table, but an entry should be made in the struts-config.xml. The controller command can be registered in the CMDREG table by xml and SQL query.

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 Q4. Describe Catalog subsystem and the tables used in WCS for managing this ?IBM WCS
Ans. The catalog subsystem or Catalog Management provides online catalog navigation, partitioning, categorization, and associations. In addition, the catalog subsystem includes support for personalized interest lists and custom catalog display pages. The catalog subsystem contains all logic and data relevant to an online catalog, including catalog groups (or categories), catalog entries, and any associations or relationships among them.

Tables used for Catalog subsystem

1. CATENTRY
2. CATENTREL

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 Q5. Describe Marketing subsystem and What WCS components are part of this system ?IBM WCS
Ans. The Marketing subsystem is a component of the WebSphere Commerce Server, and provides numerous marketing concepts to your site, designed to increase brand awareness, and to attract and retain customers. Components of the marketing subsystem provide functionality to create marketing campaigns, including customer segments and advertising; and e-mail activities.

Various components are -

1. Promotions
2. Auctions
3. eSpots
4. e Mail Campaigns
5. Hubs and Extended sites for affiliates

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 Q6. What are the benefits of Smart bean ?IBM WCS
Ans. A smart data bean uses a lazy fetch method to retrieve its own data. This type of data bean can provide better performance in situations where not all data from the access bean is required, since it retrieves data only as required.

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 Q7. What is a retriable command ?IBM WCS
Ans. A retriable command is a controller command that can re-execute itself after encountering a system-level exception during the command execution.

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 Q8. What is SAR file ?IBM WCS
Ans. Its the Store Archive that holds the store Assets in the compressed form.

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 Q9. Whats is a starter store ?IBM WCS
Ans. Its the default store that comes in built with WCS.

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 Q10. What is an Attribute Dictionary and What are its benefits ?IBM WCS
Ans. Attribute dictionary is a set of common attributes that can be reused by multiple products.

The attribute dictionary provides a central place to manage shared attributes, with the following features:
The ability to standardize attributes.
The ability to easily compare attributes shared by products and SKUs.
The ability to quickly change attributes in one place to affect all catalog entries.

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 Q11. What is an Asset store ?IBM WCS
Ans. Asset stores are collections of sharable resources (business artifacts, business processes and storefront assets) that can be leveraged in other stores.

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 Q12. How to enable Cross Site scripting protection in WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. By specifying XSiteScriptingProtection within wc-server.xml. Prohibited characters and attributes are specified within XSiteScriptingProtection to protect the application from any XSS attach.

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 Q13. Can we see objects cached in Dynacache ?IBM WCS
Ans. We can see , monitor and can even change dynacache manually but for that we need to install a seperate application provided by WCS.

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 Q14. What is dynacache and role of cachespec.xml in WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. Dynacache in WCS is the object cache. Instead of creating objects again and again , the store objects are rendered on the basis of matched rules. Caching rules are stored in a configuration file called cachespec.xml.

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 Q15. What are different Business Models supported by WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. B2C , B2B , Supply Chain , Extended Sites.

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 Q16. What are eSpots and How do we manage them ?IBM WCS
Ans. eSpot is the mechanism in WCS to schedule and display dynamic content. Content management for these slots are done through Accelarator.

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 Q17. Explain concept of Hubs and Extended site stores ?IBM WCS
Ans. Hub and Extended sites /stores are used in case of selling through partners and affiliates. Hub is the central site around which extended stores are created by/for the respective partner / affiliate. Store owner performs the extended site administrations whereas overall control over merchandise remains with the site.

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 Q18. What is B2C and B2B Business model ?IBM WCS
Ans. B2C business deals with selling merchandise directly to consumers whereas B2B business deals with selling / coordination with other businesses ( partners , distributors , affiliates etc ) for selling merchandise.

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 Q19. Why can't we add Products while specifying Target Catalog entry in Promotions?IBM WCS
Ans. Product refer to category of Items and hence can't be associated to a particular Stock keeping unit. Items can only be targeted while creating promotions.

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 Q20. What is SKU ?IBM WCS
Ans. SKU is Stock keeping unit. Items are referred to as SKU as they are the narrowest identifier for which business needs to track quantity.

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 Q21. How do we set Auctions in WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. Through Accelerator.

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 Q22. Can we schedule auctions and promotions in WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. Yes

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 Q23. What are the different types of Auctions in WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. open cry, sealed bid, and dutch

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 Q24. What information is stored in CACHEIVL table and How does this help in caching ? IBM WCS
Ans. This table records the changes to product or category information in the database. This is referred by WCS for invalidating dynacache.

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 Q25. What is reload interval and where it is defined ?IBM WCS
Ans. reload interval or jsp caching interval is a parameter that indicates how frequently a JSP should be recompiled.

It is defined within

Stores.warWEB-INFibm-web-ext.xmi

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 Q26. What are the design patterns used in WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. MVC , Display Design and Command.

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 Q27. Who manages the Access control policies and How ?IBM WCS
Ans. Site Administrator and through Org Admin Console.

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 Q28. What are the tables used for Access control ?IBM WCS
Ans. ACPOLICY , ACPOLDESC , ACACTION , ACRELATION , ACRESREL , ACRESGRP

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 Q29. How Access control Policies are implemented in WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. There are three elements i.e Users ( Who want access ) , Actions ( What kind of Access ) and Resources ( Whose Access ). The relationship between resource and user is store in ACRELATION table and ACRESREL associate a resource and relationship.

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 Q30. Where do we specify the buyer seller relationship ?IBM WCS
Ans. In the contract xml files.

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