1. Review the Intuit Turbo tax site,describe the purpose of their Web server, and give an example ofhow their Web server would provide the following functionalities:
   1. Webpage requests
   2. Security services
   3. FTP (file transfer protocol)
   4. Search engine
   5. Data capture
   6. Email
   7. Site management
2. Describe the difference between a two-tier e-commerce sitearchitecture and multi-tier e-commerce site architecture. Assumingthat Intuit Turbo tax utilizes a multi-tierarchitecture, give an example of what would occur at the Webserver, middle-tier, and backend layers.
3. Assume that the Intuit Turbo tax e-commerce teamis looking for new server hardware and asked for your help.Research server hardware at IBM by selecting one of the LargeEnterprise servers. Next, provide a summary of the keyfeatures of the selected model and describe how it works.
4. Assume that the Intuit Turbo tax Web serversoftware is Apache. We learned in Modules 3 and 4 that the ApacheWeb server is the most commonly used Web server software in termsof number of active websites and is based on “open source” code.Visit the Open Source Initiative, describe its meaning, andindicate two benefits to an organization who utilizes this Webserver software.
5. Visit the Apache HTTP Server Project site andsummarize the purpose of this project, the Web server softwareoffered, and the reason why it is made available at no cost. If youwere working in an e-commerce role for Intuit Turbotax, would youutilize this free software for your Web server? Support yourresponse.