Web

Question 1

What is a web page?

Answer 1

A document that is viewed in a web browser

Question 2

What is a website?

Answer 2

A collection of related webpages

Question 3

What is a web server?

Answer 3

A server that serves web pages to web browersers

Question 4

What is a browser?

Answer 4

A program for viewing web pages

Question 5

Who currently develops web standards for the major web browsers?

Answer 5

Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)

Question 6

What is an IP address?

Answer 6

A computers unique address on the web where it can receive Packets

Question 7

What is an IP address composed of?

Question 8

Why was IPv6 made, and what distinguishes it from IPv4?

Answer 8

There were too few unique addresses, so IPv6 introduces 2^128 addressing bits vs 32 in IPv4.

Question 9

What is a Domain Name?

Answer 9

A name for an IP address (ex: wikipedia.org)

Question 10

What is a DNS server?

Answer 10

A DNS server is a Domain Name System Server (also called a ‘Root Server’) and converts domain names to IP addresses.

Question 11

What is a TLD (top-Level Domain)?

Answer 11

It is right-most part of a Domain Name. (ex: .com .edu .gov etc)

Question 12

What is a second-level Domain?

Answer 12

Second-level is often an organizations name, and precedes the TLD. (ex: ‘wikipedia’ in ‘wikipedia.ord’)

Question 13

What is a third-level or lower Domain?

Answer 13

Refers to sub-computer systems local to an organization (ex: ‘cs’ in ‘cs.colostate.edu’)

Question 14

What is a URL composed of?

Answer 14

• Scheme
• Hostname
• Path
• Query String
• Fragment

Question 15

What is a URL Scheme?

Answer 15

Characters at the beginning of a URL followed by ‘:’ or ‘://’ (ex: ‘http’ or ‘https’

Question 16

What is a URL Hostname?

Answer 16

The complete Domain Name

Question 17

What is a URL path?

Answer 17

The characters to the right of the Host Name

Question 18

What is a URL Query String?

Answer 18

Optional characters to the right of the question mark (?) in a URL that provide data for the web server.

Question 19

What is a URL Fragment?

Answer 19

Optional characters at the end of a URL that start with a hash character (#) and refer to a certain location within a webpage