Magento Descriptive Question for IDB exam

1. What is Magento?

Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. With Magento, never feel trapped in your eCommerce solution again.

2. What are the powerful features of Magento?

One of the most powerful features of Magento is the ability to manage multiple websites and stores from one back-end.This allows store owners to manage stores on different URLs, display the same products in different languages on the same URL, along with a variety of other setups.

3. What technology used by Magento?

Ans: Magento uses PHP as a web server scripting language and the MySQL Database. The data model is based on the Entity-attribute-value model that stores data objects in tree structures, thus allowing a change to a data structure without changing the database definition.

4. Describe the three central tenets of Magento?

Magento is built on top of the Zend Framework. Using this framework, Magento was built with 3 central tenets in mind.

A.Flexibility: We believe each solution should be as unique as the business behind it. Magneto’s code allows for seamless customizations.

B. Upgradeable: By separating the core code from community and local customizations, Magento can be easily customized without losing the ability to upgrade.

C. Speed and Security: The coding standards used by the developers follow best practices to maximize the efficiency of the software and provide a secure online storefront.

5. What is Core code in Magento?

The core code is a collection of modules developed or certified by the Magento core development team. Editing core files is not recommended and will disable the ability to upgrade Magento in the future.

6. What is Module in Magento?

A module is an extension which extends the features and functionality of Magento. You are probably familiar with the idea of modules from other software, but if not, some concrete examples of modules would be additional payment gateway integrations, or a featured items promotional tool.

7. What is Interface in Magento?

An interface is a collection of themes that determines the visual output and frontend functionality of your store. An interface can be assigned on either the website-level, store-level or website and store level through the admin panel.

8. What is Theme in Magento?

A theme is any combination of layout, template and/or skin file(s) that create the visual experience of your store. Magento is built with the capacity to load multiple themes at once, and therefore distinguishes themes into two types: Default Themes, Non-Default Themes

9. What are Blocks in Magento?

Blocks are a way by which Magento distinguishes the array of functionality in the system and creates a modular way to manage this array from both a visual and functional stand point. There are two types of blocks(structural and content) and they work together to create the visual output.

10. What are the advantages of Magento?

Ans: The advantages of magento are:

• It is user friendly E-commerce software.

• It is compatible with Smartphone’s, tablets and other mobile devices.

• It provides multiple payment options so every visitor can make payment based on their preferred payment gateway.

• It has many extensions which supports for the development of an online store.

11. Name the product types that are available in Magento?

Ans: The product types available in Magento are:

• Simple Products

• Grouped Products

• Configurable Products

• Virtual Products

• Bundled Products

• Downloadable Products

12. What is the use of Manage store section?

Ans: Manage Stores section, you will see website names, store names and Store View Name columns.

13. What are Bundled products?

Ans: Bundled products are those products which cannot be sold separately and doesn’t give any choice for end user.

14. What is Configurable Products?

Ans: In this type, customer can select products according to their color and size before purchasing. Example: Cell phones obtained in different colors and sizes.

15. What is grouped product?

Ans: This is a group of simple products. In this type, you cannot specify a specific price for product; you can just specify the discount.

16. What does the Page Layout section contains?

Ans: The Page Layout section contains a Layout option which allows selecting layout as per your choice and Layout Update XML option inserts the XML code.

17. What are Static Blocks?

Ans: Static block is a piece of content can be used anywhere in the pages. Magento allows creating blocks of content that can be used through the store and can be added to any page or another block.

18. What are Polls?

Ans: Polls are used to get customer’s opinions and preferences. The poll results appear immediately after response is submitted.

19. What is Magento Payment Gateway?

Ans: Payment gateway processes the credit card data securely between customer and merchant and also between merchant and the payment processor. It is like checkpoint that protects

20. What is Websites?

Ans: A website is made up of one or more stores which share the same customer information, order information and shopping cart. This is a very broad term that can be adopted to define the unique needs of individual merchants.

21. What is Stores?

Ans: Stores can be setup in a variety of ways, but remember that if they are part of the same website they will share certain information.

22. What is Store Views?

Ans: Store Views are mainly used for different languages, so if you wanted to have a store displayed in English and Spanish, for example, you could create the store once and create two different store views for that store.

23. “Magento was built with 3 central tenets in mind”. Name them.

Ans: 1. Flexibility 2. Upgradeable 3. Speed and Security

24. How to show price (or sth else) in Shopping Opions when browsing a category?

Ans: Go to Catalog->Attributes->Manage Attributes, edit price attribute, set Use In Layered Navigation as Filterable (with results).

25. What is Batch updating? Give an example.

Batch Updates feature saves you time by allowing you to change certain settings for multiple

customers, products, and more at the same time.

To make Batch Updates to customers, navigate to Customers > Manage Customers. Select the customers individually or Select All to which you would like to make updates. When you have all the desired customers selected, chose your preferred Action from the drop-down menu, also at the top of the customers list.

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