Topic 5 - The Internet And Its Uses

Question 1

Internet

Answer 1

Global network of interconnected computers

Question 2

World Wide Web

Answer 2

Part of the internet which users can access using web browser, it is a large collection of web pages

Question 3

Web browser

Answer 3

Software that allows users to access & display web pages on their device screens. They interpret HTML sent from websites

Question 4

URL format

Answer 4

Protocol://website address/path/file name

Question 5

Protocol

Answer 5

http/https

Question 6

Website address format

Answer 6

• domain host- www
• domain name - website name
• domain type - .com, .org, .net, .gov
  And sometimes country code - .uk, .de, .cy

Question 7

What does HTTP and HTTPS

Answer 7

Hypertext transfer protocol (secure)

Question 8

Functions of a web browsers (9)

Answer 8

• have a home page
• store users favourite website / web page as bookmarks
• history of websites
• allow users to go forwards & backwards on a website
• allows many web pages to be open at the same time using tabs
• they make use of cookies
• they make use of hyperlinks
• Data is stored as a cache
• provide address bar

Question 9

DNS servers

Answer 9

A server that converts domain names to IP addresses

Question 10

Cookies

Answer 10

Cookies are small data’s that get stored on a users computer which are sent by web servers to the browser, they hold key info preferences like language1 currency and previous browser activity

Question 11

What are the two types of cookies

Answer 11

-Session cookies - ceases to exist when the browser is closed
- persistent cookies - permanently stored on the hard drive