Programming Web Applications (MTA)

Question 1

What is the difference between a client and a server?

Answer 1

A server receives a request and responds to the client

Question 2

What is the Web form model in the Microsoft .Net Framework?

Answer 2

Web forms is event driven pages written as a combination of HTML, Server controls and server code. It is broken down into the single-file model and the code-behind model.

Question 3

How is data transmitted from one page to another?

Answer 3

cache, httppost, asp.net session state, querystring, cookies, httpcontext

Question 4

How do clients and servers communicate?

Answer 4

Find answer

Question 5

What are some examples of applications that can be developed with .NET?

Answer 5

Shopping cart

Question 6

Name five intrinsic objects in .NET.

Answer 6

Request
Response
Application
Server
Session
HttpContext

Question 7

Request

Answer 7

Getting information from the User

Question 8

Response

Answer 8

Sending information to the User

Question 9

Application

Answer 9

Sharing information for the entire application

Question 10

Server

Answer 10

Accessing Server resources

Question 11

Session

Answer 11

Storing information about a User’s session

Question 12

Name four ASP.NET server controls

Answer 12

User
Server
Web
Validation

Question 13

View State

Answer 13

Stores user’s values in controls between page requests.

Question 14

Control State

Answer 14

Stores information specific to a certain control.

Question 15

Application State

Answer 15

A global storage mechanism to store data that needs to be accessible to all pages in a web application.

Question 16

Session State

Answer 16

Session State stores user-specific information on the server and shares that information across the pages within the site

Question 17

Why would a session state be used over an application state?

Answer 17

Sometimes the data is too large or requires additional security.

Question 18

Where is the session state stored by default? What are some other options for storage?

Answer 18

By default, session states are stored in memory on the server. The can be configured to store information in client-side cookies, on another state server or inside a Microsoft SQL Server database;

Question 19

Does application state or session state consumer more server memory and why?

Answer 19

Session state uses more memory because it is per-user. Application state is shared among users.

Question 20

Which might not work if a user has disabled cookies?

Answer 20

Session state won’t work if cookies are disabled. Application state works regardless;

Question 21

You need to store state data that is accessible to any user who connects to your web application and ensure that it stays in memory. Which collection object should you use?

Answer 21

Application state

Question 22

You need to store a value indicating whether a user has been authenticated for your site. This value needs to be available and checked in every user request . Which object should you use?

Answer 22

Session State

Question 23

Your application is being deployed in a load-balanced web farm. The load balancer is not set up for user server affinity, Rather it routes requests to servers based on their load. Your application uses session state. How should you configure the session state mode attribute?

Answer 23

State server and SqlServer

Question 24

Which page takes priority the master page or the content page?

Answer 24

The master page takes priority over the content page.

Question 25

Is it possible to have multiple master pages?

Answer 25

Yes.