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Certified Cyber Marketing Professional (212-51) Exam

Credit Towards Certification:
  • Certified Cyber Marketing Professional
Exam Details:
  • Exam No: 212-51
  • Number of Questions: 50
  • Passing Score: 70%
  • Test Duration: 2 Hours
  • Test Format: Multiple Choice
  • Test Delivery: Prometric Online Web site
Test Objectives

Module 01: Introduction to Cyber Marketing
  • Discuss about cyber marketing, its advantages, techniques, and limitations
  • Why to use Internet for marketing, impact of Internet on businesses and benefits in e-business using Internet
  • Describe about the different stages of cyber marketing planning
  • Provide the guidelines for a successful cyber marketing effort
Module 02: e-Commerce Concepts
  • Discuss the fundamental components of an e-commerce setup
  • Describe e-commerce, its evolution, working, advantages,  limitations and key factors
  • What are the impact of Internet on e-commerce
  • Define e-business and explain the tasks involved in e-business
  • What are the risks associated with e-commerce
  • Provide the guidelines for e-commerce security
  • Define social commerce
  • Explain the characteristics and advantages of social commerce
  • Explain in detail about various e-business models such as brokerage model, affiliate model and utility model
Module 03: e-Commerce Policies and Legal Issues
  • Explain about the need of policies and laws for e-commerce
  • Discuss about the policy cycle, standard components of a policy content, policies used for an e-commerce website, and use of services policies
  • Explain about laws against e-mail spamming
  • Discuss about U.S. CAN-SPAM Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2252A law, U.S. and Communications Decency Act (CDA)
  • Discuss about Lanham (Trademark) Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
  • Discuss about European Union Directive on Privacy and electronic Communications Regulations 2003
  • Discuss about COPPA- Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45(n), and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
  • Discuss about U.S. Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act (SPY ACT)  
  • Discuss about Australia: SPAM ACT 2003, Canada: The Personal Information Protection and electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
  • Discuss about Argentina: PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT and Norway: The Marketing Control Act
Module 04: Building e-Commerce Websites
  • Explain the considerations to be made before setting up an e-commerce website
  • Explain the steps to create an e-commerce website that includes:
  • Selecting a right domain name
  • Selecting web hosting company
  • Developing a website
  • Developing website content
  • Securing the website
  • Integrating online payment processing systems
  • Testing the website
  • Promoting the website
  • Discuss about the common mistakes in building e-commerce websites
  • List and explain the tools that assist in building e-commerce website
Module 05: Electronic Payment Systems
  • Discuss about the payment systems,  its evolution, classification
  • Explain about the e-Business concepts
  • Discuss about the SSL certificates: VeriSign, Authorize.Net, GoDaddy.com, Digicert, Thawte
  • Discuss about card payment system: credit cards and smart cards
  • Explain about payment gateways, their working, advantages and disadvantages associated with them
  • Describe various online payment services
  • Discuss in brief about PayPal, Google checkout for buyers and merchants
  • Explain integrating buy now buttons into e-commerce sites
  • Explain integrating off-the-shelf shopping cart into e-commerce sites
  • Explain integrating Google Checkout with custom-built shopping carts in to e-commerce sites
Module 06: Search Engine Optimization and Increasing Website Traffic
  • Search engine Optimization (SEO)
  • What is SEO, and why is it necessary
  • Discuss Search Engine Optimization process in detail
  • Describe about the Controversial Search engine Optimization Techniques, SEO myths and guidelines to improve and maintain search engine ranking
  • Discuss about the Google Universal Search and SEO
  • Increasing Website Traffic
  • Discuss about the website traffic, its terminology, how to build website traffic
  • Explain about increasing traffic volume through traffic exchange
  • Describe about the effective Usage of Free Traffic exchange
  • Explain about the guaranteed traffic, advantages of buying website traffic and analyzing website traffic
  • Discuss about the best practices to make high traffic website, how to create profits from the website traffic and traffic tracking tools
  • Discuss about various tools used for SEO
Module 07:  Web Analytics
  • Discuss about web analytics, its basics, framework, types, technologies, and methods
  • Explain about web logs and why web analytics is necessary
  • Describe the advantages and disadvantages associated with the log file analysis, and page tagging
  • Explain about monitoring the web traffic and analyzing the web traffic data
  • Discuss about various factors to calculate online conversion rate
  • Discuss about  various tools associated with web analytics
Module 08:  Advertising Campaign
  • Discuss advertising campaign, basic steps involved in planning an ad-campaign
  • Explain about buying advertising space, hiring an advertising agency and joining an ad-network
  • Explain about choosing and controlling an advertising campaign
  • Discuss about the cross channel campaigns, ezine advertising and techniques involved for making an advertisement cost effective
  • Discuss about various tools associated with advertising campaign
Module 09: Designing Ad-banners
  • Discuss about ad-banners, its basic concepts, types, objectives, advantages and disadvantages
  • Explain advertising with banners, characteristics of a good banner, and steps to design a banner
  • Discuss about the types of banner ad campaigns and planning banner ad campaign
  • Explain about designing banner advertisements and tracking banner ads
  • Describe the best practices associated for designing banner ads and to create an effective banner ad campaigns
  • Discuss about various online and desktop banner creation tools
Module 10: Email Marketing
  • Discuss about email marketing, its types, components, and advantages
  • Describe the guidelines for effective email marketing and best practices of email marketing
  • Explain about the steps involved in email marketing
  • Describe various approaches to get customers
  • Explain about the auto-responder, its advantages, and tools
  • Discuss about various tools associated with email marketing
Module 11: Viral Marketing
  • Discuss about viral marketing, its basics, history, prerequisites, challenges and future
  • Explain about the viral marketing techniques
  • Describe the elements of viral marketing strategy, benefits of viral marketing and best practices for optimizing viral marketing campaigns
Module 12: Affiliate Marketing
  • Define affiliate marketing and lists the advantages and limitations of affiliate marketing
  • Explain about the affiliate programs, their types, and advantages
  • Provide the guidelines to raise affiliate commissions while marketing
  • Explain in detail about the importance of content in affiliate marketing
  • Discuss the methods for building an affiliate marketing system
  • Discuss about affiliate marketing in comparison to other forms of marketing
  • Describe about the pricing and payment models in Affiliate Marketing
Module 13: Blog Advertising
  • Explain the concept of blog and the terminology used
  • Describe about the different types of blogs
  • Discuss the guidelines to design a blog advertisement
  • Define blog advertising and explain why to advertise on blogs
  • Discuss about the purchasing and selling of blog ad space
  • Describe about the points to succeed in blogging
  • How companies use blogs on their websites
Module 14: YouTube and Video Advertising
  • Describe about video advertising, their characteristics, advantages,  and limitations
  • Explain in detail about the basic steps of video advertising
  • Discuss about the various online video advertising scenarios
  • Explain in detail about the process of optimizing video ads for search engines
  • Discuss the best practices for successful video advertising
  • How the video ads are uploaded on YouTube
  • Describe about the YouTube advertising opportunities
  • Define the concept of webcasting and lists the various webcasting service providers
Module 15: Podcast Advertising
  • Describe about podcasting, its evolution, and advantages
  • Discuss the steps of podcasting such as planning, recording, publishing and promoting
  • Explain in detail about how podcasting works
  • Define Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and Atom in the concept of podcasting
  • Discuss the guidelines/best practices for effective podcasting
  • How podcasting is used for advertisement
  • Discuss the uses of podcasting for advertisement
  • Describe about the internal and external business uses of podcasting
  • Describe the benefits of podcasting for business
  • Discuss about the important criteria to make successful Podcast advertising
Module 16: Advertising on Search Engines
  • Describe the concept of advertising on search engines
  • Discuss in detail about the major objectives of search engine advertising
  • Explain about the various approaches of targeting the right customers
  • Discuss the best practices for advertising on Google
  • Describe about the Yahoo Search Marketing products
  • Discuss in detail about Google AdWords and Google AdSense
  • What is Microsoft AdCenter and how it works
Module 17: Mobile Advertising
  • Describe about mobile advertising, and its advantages
  • Discuss the various technologies facilitating mobile advertising
  • Explain in detail about the Mobile advertising Campaigns
  • Define the term Common Short Code (CSC) and explain its working
  • Discuss the guidelines for successful mobile advertising
  • Describe about the mobile advertising value chain and lists their success factors
  • Describe about mobile web advertising, its uniqueness and guidelines
  • Explain  about wireless advertising and discuss the  steps of creating wireless advertisements 
Module 18: Social Media Advertising
  • Define social media and explain the advantages and disadvantages of social media
  • Describe about the advertising on social networks, bookmarks, and news web sites
  • Explain in detail about the role of advertising and direct marketing in social media
  • Discuss the relation between business and social networking
  • Explain the role of advertising and direct marketing in social media
  • Define social networking site and finds connections on social networking sites
  • Discuss the methods for marketing on social networking sites
  • How Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, and Flickr are used for building social network
  • Describe the techniques of approaching people to become a part of your online network
Module 20: Converting Visitors into Customers and Maintaining Customers
  • Describe the tactics for converting visitors into customers
  • Explain in detail about the strategies of converting visitors into customers
  • Define Supply Chain Management (SCM) and its components
  • Describe about Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for e-commerce
  • Explain the importance of maintaining customers
  • Discuss the benefits of CRM in a business
  • Describe about how to implement CRM in a business
Module 21: Competitive Intelligence (CI)
  • Discuss about competitive intelligence as a product and process
  • Explain about classification of competitive intelligence, types of active CI and problems in CI cycle
  • Discuss about Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Competitive Intelligence and Internet as a tool for CI
  • Describe about managing data gathering in competitive intelligence
  • Discuss about various tools associated with competitive intelligence
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