Unit 2

Question 1

Web App

Answer 1

Application software that runs on a web server (dynamic site, website, site, app)

Question 2

End-user

Answer 2

The person who actually uses a particular product (user, client, customer)

Question 3

Front-end

Answer 3

Part of the system concerned with dealing with user interaction (frontend, front end, presentation layer)

Question 4

back-end

Answer 4

A part of the system concerned with running application logic and storing application data (backend, back end, data access layer)

Question 5

Web APIs

Answer 5

Software built to translate messages between a user (often another program and a web server) (API)

Question 6

Client

Answer 6

Within the client-server model, a computer who sends a request for a resource to a server, and receives back a response

Question 7

Server

Answer 7

Within the client-server model, a computer who receives requests for a resource from a client, and sends back a response.

Question 8

Web Server

Answer 8

Within the client-server model, a server that is specifically connected to a client over the web

Question 9

HTTP

Answer 9

A specific protocol that determines how clients and web servers communicate

Question 10

Request-Response Cycle

Answer 10

The cycle of communication between a client making a request an a server responding back.

Question 11

Web Application Framework

Answer 11

A software framework designed to support web application development.

Question 12

Endpoint

Answer 12

Another name for the “path” of a resource, usually in the context of an API (Path, request, URL, route)

Question 13

Status Message

Answer 13

A description attached to the status code

Question 14

HTTP Body

Answer 14

The resource that needs to be sent to the client (not required)

Question 15

Status Code

Answer 15

A number that indicates if a request was successful or unsuccessful and why

Question 16

HTTP Headers

Answer 16

Colon-separated pairs of information to describe additional details that the client may need (required)

Question 17

GET

Answer 17

Requests that retrieve the data of a specified resource

Question 18

POST

Answer 18

Requests that submit or “post” data to the server, and change the state of the server. Usually associated with submitting forms and HTTP
body.

Question 19

Sending a Request

Answer 19

The act of sending an HTTP request from a client to a server (Calling an API, making a request, requesting

Question 20

PUT

Answer 20

Requests that replace a resource with a new resource

Question 21

PATCH

Answer 21

Requests that replace parts of a resource

Question 22

DELETE

Answer 22

Requests that delete a resource