Computer Flashcards
This comes from the term “internetworking,” and it is the publicly accessible worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that allows users to exchange and retrieve information.
Internet
It is a scheme for connecting two or more distinct computer networks together.
Internetworking
Computers connected to the Internet transfer data and information around the world using this.
Client-server structure
It is a computer that can access the contents of the storage area on the server and may include programs, data, and other resources.
Client
It is a computer that manages the resources on a network and the central storage areas for programs and data.
Server
This is a set of rules and procedures that govern the exchange of information among computers connected to a network.
protocol
It is the most widely used internetworking protocol suite that allows any pair of hosts on the Internet to communicate directly despite differences in hardware technologies used.
TCP/IP Internet Protocol
It is a set of rules for exchanging files like text, graphic images, sounds, videos, and other multimedia files.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http)
It is commonly used to transfer web page files from their creator to the computer that acts as their server for everyone on the Internet.
File Transfer Protocol (ftp)
It is used in sending and receiving email, but is mostly used in sending emails.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
This is the most recent version of a standard for receiving email.
Post Office Protocols 3 (POP3)
It is a string of numbers separated by periods and is expressed as a set of four numbers.
IP address
It is the name of the server that provides services given by the organization or the company that owns it.
Server name
This describes the category or the type of organization that owns the server.
Top-level domain
This originally stood for “commercial” to indicate a suite used for commercial purposes, but it has since become the most well-known top-level domain and is now used for any kind of site.
.com
used for educational institutions like universities
.edu
used for government sites
.gov
used for military sites
.mil
It was originally intended for sites related to the Internet itself but is now used for a wide variety of sites.
.net
originally intended for non-commercial “organizations”, but now used for a wide variety of sites; managed by the Internet Society
.org
This describes the geographical location of the company that owns the server.
Country domain
It is the country domain for United Arab Emirates.
.ae
Austria
.at
Australia
.au
Barbados
.bb
Bermuda
.bm
Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Thailand, Chile, United States, Philippines
.br, .ca, .ch, .th, .cl, .us, .ph
Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, United Kingdom
.it, .jp, .my, .sg, .tw, .uk
It contains all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
World wide web
He developed the web by writing a small computer program for his own personal use that allowed pages within his computer to be linked together using keywords.
Dr. Tim Berners-Lee
It is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.
Browser
These are two of the most popular web browsers.
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome
It consists of a world wide collection of electronic documents called web pages.
World wide web or web
It is an electronic document that may contain text, images, sounds, videos, and hyperlinks.
Web page
These are built-in connections to another related web page.
Hyperlinks
It is a collection of related web pages that can be accessed.
Website
It is the starting page for a website that is similar to a book cover or a table of contents for this site.
Home page
Hypertext Markup Language
HTML
It pertains to a group of text that acts as a link to another web page.
Hypertext
It is the process of inserting formatting instructions to the document.
Mark-up
It is the primary language used to create web pages that provides commands that will allow you to create links between the web pages.
HTML
These are also known as HTML tags and are enclosed in angle brackets.
HTML commands
What do you call the pairs that come in HTML commands?
Opening tag and closing tag
This is similar to the opening tag with the exception of the forward slash added inside the angle brackets.
Closing tag
These are modifiers placed inside the opening tag of an HTML command.
Attributes
This type of HTML command does not have an end tag or command.
Empty tag
This requires an end tag and usually comes in pairs.
Container tag
HTML Document Basic Structure
<html>
<head>
<title> Title of the page </title>
</head>
<body>
Content of the page
</body>
</html>
It is used to indicate that the text enclosed in this tag is in HTML format and that it can be viewed using the browser.
<html>...</html>
html tag
It is used to define the header area. The content of the header area is not displayed within the page of the browser.
<head>...</head>
It is placed inside the <head>…</head>. The information placed inside this tag will be displayed on the title bar of the browser window.
<title>...</title>
title tag
It is used to indicate that the text enclosed inside this tag will be displayed on the browser page.
<body>...</body>
body tag
This tag is used to specify the headings in a document that are numbered 1 to 6.
Heading tag
This tag inserts a blank space before and after the group of text it encloses.
Paragraph tag
It inserts a line break within the group of text.
Break tag
This tag is used when quoting a group of text coming from another source. The tag will indent the paragraph.
Blockquote tag
This tag is used to display the web page’s author information, email address, and the date when the page was last updated.
Address tag
This tag is used to display text in a fixed-width font, with multiple spaces and tabs, and a hard return can be inserted in between the text within the HTML document.
Pre tag
It is used to center a large block of text.
Center tag
Give the syntax of the heading, paragraph, break, blockquote, address, pre, and center tag.
<hn>...</hn>
<p>...</p>
<br></br>
<blockquote>...</blockquote>
<address>...</address>
<pre>...</pre>
<center>...</center>
What does “n” represent in the syntax of the heading tag?
It represents the six levels of section headings, with the value of 1 being the highest, and 6 the lowest.
State the attributes of the paragraph tag.
center, right, and justify
What are the attributes of the heading tag?
center and right
It is the color model that the Web uses.
RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) color model
How many colors does HTML use? However, there was a problem in the consistency in which these colors are displayed.
HTML uses 256 colors
It is a palette that ensures that all computers will display all the colors correctly.
Web Safe Color
How many colors does the Web Safe Color palette contain?
216 colors
It is an attribute inside the body tag that specifies the color of the active link.
alink
It specifies the color of the text that will be displayed on the document.
text
This attribute of the body tag specifies the background color of the document.
bgcolor
It specifies the color of the hyperlink.
link
It specifies the color of the visited hyperlink.
vlink
It is used to apply boldface style to text.
Boldface tag
This tag is used to add underline to text.
Underline tag
It is used to italicize the text.
Italize tag
It is used to set the font characteristics of the text.
Font tag
What are the attributes of the font tag?
color = “hexcolor code”
face = “font name”
size = n; where n: 1
It is the attribute of the font tag used to change the size of the text on the Web page.
Size
It is another attribute of the font tag used to change the font style of the text on the Web page.
Face
Enumerate the syntax of the boldface, underline, italize, and font tag.
<b>…</b>
<u>...</u>
<i>…</i>
<font>...</font>
