Module2A: Accessing and Viewing Web Pages

Question 1

What are the two most common types of addresses?

Answer 1

Email and Web Addresses

Question 2

What is the address of a web-page called?

Answer 2

A URL

Question 3

What are URL’s made up of?

Answer 3

Several distinct components

• Protocol
• Domain Name
• Subdomain
• Path

Question 4

Define Protocol

Answer 4

A protocol tells the web server and browser the type of information it is delivering and how it should be delivered. the protocol is also referred to as the scheme

Question 5

Define Domain Name

Answer 5

It’s the Unique name that identfies a particular website. It is also the most important of a URL as it determines the correct web server for the website

Question 6

Define Subdomain

Answer 6

it’s a portion or subset of a domain name. The most common is www; as in www.google.ca it also can be almost anything such as mail.google.com or calendar.google.com

Question 7

Define Path

Answer 7

The path identifies the specific page the web server will send to your browser. The path can also end in a filename such as index.html

Question 8

What is DNS?

Answer 8

DNS is Domain name system and allows web users to type in a url to access a webpage instead of a corresponding numeric IP Address

Question 9

What are the components of a Domain name

Answer 9

the three components of a domain name are:

• Subdomain
• Domain Name
• TLD

Question 10

What is TLD

Answer 10

it’s top-level domain which generally indicates the type of organizations the website belongs to or the country associated with the domain name.

Question 11

What are the common Top Level Domains and there descriptions

Answer 11

• .com - Commercial organizations, corporations
• .edu - Educational institutions
• .net - Network sites
• .org - Not-for-profit and other similar types of organizations
• .gov - U.S. governmental agencies
• .mil - U.S. military organizations
• .museum - Museums
• .travel - Travel sites
• .careers - Employment opportunities
• .ca - Canada
• .uk - United Kingdom
• .de - Germany
• .jp - Japan
• .se - Sweden
• .au - Australia

Question 12

Define Redirect

Answer 12

it’s when the url may be different from what you entered, if the Actual URL has changed and the original URL (The one you type) remains active and serves as a link to a new web page.

Question 13

What are the keyboard shortcuts to navigate within a webpage

Answer 13

• Page up to Move up
• Page Down to Move Down
• Left or Right Arrow to move left or right
• Tab to move through links and fields

Question 14

What are the Navigation Buttons?

Answer 14

• Back
• Forward
• Reload
• Stop

Question 15

What do the Back and Forward Buttons Do?

Answer 15

Back button goes back one page at a time. You can go back until you reach the first page you visited

Foward button reverses the action of the Back Command.

Question 16

How do you access Back and Forward History

Answer 16

To access you click and hold or right click either of the buttons and choose the webpage you want to go to from the list

Question 17

What does the Reload Button do?

Answer 17

Basically the computer contacts the web server that stores the page and gets the most up to date version of that page.

Question 18

What does the stop button do?

Answer 18

it’s used to stop whatever the browser is doing, such as waiting for a webpage to appear and you don’t want to wait anymore.

it only appears on the toolbar while a webpage is loading, after that it has loaded the stop button is replaced with the reload.

Question 19

How can New Tabs be opened?

Answer 19

with the New Tab button

Question 20

Whats another way to open a Tab?

Answer 20

By right clicking a link and choosing open link in new tab

Question 21

How many tabs can be viewed?

Answer 21

The contents of only one tab can be visible on your screen at any one time. To display the contents of another tab, simply click on that tab.