Hyperlinks and Forms

Question 1

External Hyperlink

Answer 1

Link from a file on your system to a separate file on the internet. Requires full URL and protocol indicator.

Question 2

Internal Hyperlink

Answer 2

Link from one point to another in a Webpage. Require internal bookmarks (anchors).

Question 3

Local Hyperlink

Answer 3

Link you create from one file on your local system to another file on your local system.

Question 4

Absolute URL

Answer 4

Contains a full path to a resource, including a protocol indicator
aka Fully Qualified URL

Question 5

CGI

Answer 5

Common Gateway Interface
Pre-dates Web servers. Application to process information submitted online. Interface between client applications and servers. Commonly written in Perl.

Question 6

CAPTCHA

Answer 6

Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
Distorted image easily recognizable by humans but can’t be interpreted by a machine

Question 7

Web Server

Answer 7

Receives data from Web form, processes/reformats input, stores data on server-side storage, sends data to other servers, and responds to client-side requests
IIS, Tomcat, Apache Web Server

Question 8

Server-side Scripting Processor

Answer 8

Interprets a form’s input

PHP, ASP, Java

Question 9

Client-side scripts

Answer 9

Executed on a client’s computer or browser. JavaScript and VBScript are common languages.

Question 10

Perl

Answer 10

Practical Extraction and Report Language