Web Development Foundations (WGU C779) Exam Questions and Answers

uniform resource locator - ANSWER-URL uniform resource locator (URL) - ANSWER-address of a specific webpage or file on the internet http:// - ANSWER-prefix/protocol portion of a URL www part of URL - ANSWER-example of a subdomain Which part is the domain name? - ANSWER-website in Which part is the top-level domain? - ANSWER-.com in W3C - ANSWER-World Wide Web Consortium World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - ANSWER-An international community that develops open standards for the Web. SGML - ANSWER-Standard Generalized Markup Language Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - ANSWER-A metalanguage used to create other languages, including HTML and XHTML. How does SGML differ from HTML? - ANSWER-the former describes the concepts and info inside of documents; the latter is used to format the visual presentation of the information What does SGML use to create the document language rules to establish conformity across documents? - ANSWER-document type definition (DTD) HTML - ANSWER-Hypertext Markup Language Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - ANSWER-language used to create web pages and hyperlinks to move between those web pages and files Why are hyperlinks so important? - ANSWER-links documents, allowing users to move from one to another simply by clicking on a hot spot or link; established the WWW CSS - ANSWER-Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - ANSWER-Style sheet language that provides the formatting and "look" of a Web page or document written in a markup language. XML - ANSWER-Extensible Markup Language Extensible Markup Language (XML) - ANSWER-The markup language designed to transport and store data on the Web What is the difference between HTML and XML? - ANSWER-the former creates web pages and defines how information is displayed; the latter stores and transports information that is not intended to be displayed (xml) - ANSWER-less than (xml) (xml) - ANSWER-greater than (xml) & (xml) - ANSWER-ampersand (xml) ' (xml) - ANSWER-apostrophe (xml) " (xml) - ANSWER-quotation mark (xml) format for comments in XML - ANSWER-!-- text -- How does XML store a new line? - ANSWER-LF (xml)