WGU D276 WEB DEVELOPMENT
FOUNDATIONS ACTUAL EXAM PAPER
2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◍ Portion inside braces {}.
Answer: Called the 'declaration'.
◍ URL Shortening.
Answer: A technique to create shorter URLs that redirect to longer URLs.
◍ Which of the following is a characteristic of a browser, device, or
environment? (ex: aspect-ratio, height, and orientation).
Answer: media feature
◍ What is Linkrot?.
Answer: The general name for a once valid link that now returns a 404
status code.
◍ Position property.
Answer: A CSS property that gives developers more control over where
HTML elements should appear in the browser.
◍ Video controls attribute.
Answer: controls="controls".
◍ What is a protocol suite that governs how data packets are transferred over
the internet from one machine to another?.
Answer: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
◍ Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
Answer: An open standard for Web images that provides compression,
, searchable text and zooming features, in addition to animation.
◍ JavaScript.
Answer: A scripting language used to provide interactivity within a webpage
◍ <style>.
Answer: used to define style information (CSS) for a document.
◍ CSS variable.
Answer: A custom CSS property that defines a value.
◍ What is a unit of absolute size?.
Answer: px
◍ <th>...</th>.
Answer: An HTML table header; creates a cell whose content is centered
and bold. Typically used for column and row headings.
◍ Primary attributes for input tag.
Answer: The 5 primary attributes are: type attribute, name attribute, id
attribute, placeholder attribute, and value attribute.
◍ Fragment.
Answer: Optional characters at the end of a URL that contains a hash
character (#) and refer to a location within a webpage.
◍ Reducing spam submissions.
Answer: CAPTCHA.
◍ HTML phrase element.
Answer: Formats text in a fixed-width font.
◍ Variable.
Answer: Stores a value or a link to an element of a webpage.
◍ RGBA color value.
Answer: Specifies a color using the rgba(red, green, blue, alpha) function by
indicating the red, green, blue, and alpha intensities. Alpha of 0 (zero)
means fully transparent, 1 (one) means fully opaque.
,◍ Property used to add a background color for <h1> elements?.
Answer: h1 {background-color:#FFFFFF;}
◍ Which CSS layout mode provides an efficient way to lay out elements in a
container so the elements behave predictably when the container is resized
or viewed on different screen sizes?.
Answer: flexible box or flexbox
◍ <img>.
Answer: an HTML element that defines an image. It is a void element
(meaning it has no closing tag).
◍ What required <form> attribute specifies the manner in which the browser
will send form data to a web server?.
Answer: method
◍ Protocol for file transfer to server.
Answer: File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
◍ Aspect Ratio.
Answer: the ratio of an image width to the image height. It is written as
width:height
◍ Regarding a URL, what is a Query String?.
Answer: Optional characters to the right of the question mark (?) in a URL
that provide data for the web server.
◍ 1990.
Answer: First web browser is created (year)
◍ <p><b>.
Answer: Code snippet to increase the weight of a text's font.
◍ True or false? Elements with higher z-index values are placed below
elements with lower z-index values.
Answer: False
◍ adjacent sibling selector.
, Answer: When the 1st CSS selector uses a closing tag, only the adjacent
(right next to) 2nd CSS selector will be applied that property and value.
◍ Case sensitive and disallows errors.
Answer: Two characteristics of XML.
◍ Browser Cache.
Answer: An area on a computer's disk where web content can be stored by
the web browser for quick retrieval later.
◍ justify-content.
Answer: A CSS property that horizontally aligns the grid items inside the
grid container using different values.
◍ How do you make each word in a text start with a capital letter?.
Answer: text-transform:capitalize
◍ Early 1990's.
Answer: The period when the web was first developed.
◍ target attribute.
Answer: indicates how a browser should display the link when clicked
◍ hypertext reference (HREF) attribute.
Answer: Specifies the hyperlink's URL
◍ True or False? HTML comments can be used to remind yourself why you
inserted a particular piece of code..
Answer: True
◍ Cognitive Computing.
Answer: the use of artificial intelligence techniques and access to vast
amounts of data to simulate human problem solving in complex situations
with ambiguity, changing data, and even conflicting information
◍ Linkrot.
Answer: When content is removed from the web and the URLs that used to
point to the content now return a 404 (not found) status code.
FOUNDATIONS ACTUAL EXAM PAPER
2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◍ Portion inside braces {}.
Answer: Called the 'declaration'.
◍ URL Shortening.
Answer: A technique to create shorter URLs that redirect to longer URLs.
◍ Which of the following is a characteristic of a browser, device, or
environment? (ex: aspect-ratio, height, and orientation).
Answer: media feature
◍ What is Linkrot?.
Answer: The general name for a once valid link that now returns a 404
status code.
◍ Position property.
Answer: A CSS property that gives developers more control over where
HTML elements should appear in the browser.
◍ Video controls attribute.
Answer: controls="controls".
◍ What is a protocol suite that governs how data packets are transferred over
the internet from one machine to another?.
Answer: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
◍ Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
Answer: An open standard for Web images that provides compression,
, searchable text and zooming features, in addition to animation.
◍ JavaScript.
Answer: A scripting language used to provide interactivity within a webpage
◍ <style>.
Answer: used to define style information (CSS) for a document.
◍ CSS variable.
Answer: A custom CSS property that defines a value.
◍ What is a unit of absolute size?.
Answer: px
◍ <th>...</th>.
Answer: An HTML table header; creates a cell whose content is centered
and bold. Typically used for column and row headings.
◍ Primary attributes for input tag.
Answer: The 5 primary attributes are: type attribute, name attribute, id
attribute, placeholder attribute, and value attribute.
◍ Fragment.
Answer: Optional characters at the end of a URL that contains a hash
character (#) and refer to a location within a webpage.
◍ Reducing spam submissions.
Answer: CAPTCHA.
◍ HTML phrase element.
Answer: Formats text in a fixed-width font.
◍ Variable.
Answer: Stores a value or a link to an element of a webpage.
◍ RGBA color value.
Answer: Specifies a color using the rgba(red, green, blue, alpha) function by
indicating the red, green, blue, and alpha intensities. Alpha of 0 (zero)
means fully transparent, 1 (one) means fully opaque.
,◍ Property used to add a background color for <h1> elements?.
Answer: h1 {background-color:#FFFFFF;}
◍ Which CSS layout mode provides an efficient way to lay out elements in a
container so the elements behave predictably when the container is resized
or viewed on different screen sizes?.
Answer: flexible box or flexbox
◍ <img>.
Answer: an HTML element that defines an image. It is a void element
(meaning it has no closing tag).
◍ What required <form> attribute specifies the manner in which the browser
will send form data to a web server?.
Answer: method
◍ Protocol for file transfer to server.
Answer: File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
◍ Aspect Ratio.
Answer: the ratio of an image width to the image height. It is written as
width:height
◍ Regarding a URL, what is a Query String?.
Answer: Optional characters to the right of the question mark (?) in a URL
that provide data for the web server.
◍ 1990.
Answer: First web browser is created (year)
◍ <p><b>.
Answer: Code snippet to increase the weight of a text's font.
◍ True or false? Elements with higher z-index values are placed below
elements with lower z-index values.
Answer: False
◍ adjacent sibling selector.
, Answer: When the 1st CSS selector uses a closing tag, only the adjacent
(right next to) 2nd CSS selector will be applied that property and value.
◍ Case sensitive and disallows errors.
Answer: Two characteristics of XML.
◍ Browser Cache.
Answer: An area on a computer's disk where web content can be stored by
the web browser for quick retrieval later.
◍ justify-content.
Answer: A CSS property that horizontally aligns the grid items inside the
grid container using different values.
◍ How do you make each word in a text start with a capital letter?.
Answer: text-transform:capitalize
◍ Early 1990's.
Answer: The period when the web was first developed.
◍ target attribute.
Answer: indicates how a browser should display the link when clicked
◍ hypertext reference (HREF) attribute.
Answer: Specifies the hyperlink's URL
◍ True or False? HTML comments can be used to remind yourself why you
inserted a particular piece of code..
Answer: True
◍ Cognitive Computing.
Answer: the use of artificial intelligence techniques and access to vast
amounts of data to simulate human problem solving in complex situations
with ambiguity, changing data, and even conflicting information
◍ Linkrot.
Answer: When content is removed from the web and the URLs that used to
point to the content now return a 404 (not found) status code.
