• E-commerce concepts and architecture
• Role of a WebSphere Commerce Administrator
• Commerce server editions and features
• Business use cases and industry examples
• Commerce implementation lifecycle
• Application server components
• Web server and application server roles
• Database architecture overview
• Integration with WebSphere Application Server
• Request and response flow
• Installing WebSphere Commerce Server
• Environment profiles and configurations
• Initial system setup
• Verifying installation
• Post-installation checks
• Profiles and node concepts
• Server instances and clusters
• JVM settings and tuning basics
• Starting and stopping servers
• Administration console usage
• Supported database platforms
• Database configuration and connectivity
• Schema overview
• Backup and restore basics
• Database performance considerations
• Managing instance properties
• Store and site configuration
• Caching concepts
• Session management
• Configuration best practices
• User and role management
• Access control policies
• Authentication mechanisms
• SSL configuration
• Security best practices
• Catalog management overview
• Product and pricing basics
• Inventory integration overview
• Order processing flow
• Store operational monitoring
• ERP and inventory system integration
• Web services and APIs
• Data exchange formats
• Integration error handling
• Best practices for integrations
• Web server and application server tuning
• Database performance tuning basics
• Caching optimization
• Load handling strategies
• Performance monitoring tools







