WGU D276 WEB DEVELOPMENT
FOUNDATIONS EXAM A, B & STUDY
GUIDE LATEST ACTUAL EXAM 350
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY GRADED A+
"What does URL stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Uniform Resource Locator"
"What is a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The location of a web resource, such as
http://www.google.com"
"What is a scheme in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Characters at the beginning of a URL followed by a
colon (:) or a colon and double slashes (://)"
"What is a hostname in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The complete domain name following the
scheme in a URL"
"What is a path in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The characters to the right of the hostname in a URL"
"What is a query string in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Optional characters to the right of the
question mark (?) in a URL that provide data for the web server"
"What is a fragment in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Optional characters at the end of a URL that with
a hash character (#) and refer to a certain location within a webpage"
"What is a 404? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The status code that a web server returns to a browser when a
requested webpage is not found"
"What is linkrot? - CORRECT 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"
"What does TCP/IP stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Transmission Control Protocol / Internet
Protocol"
"What is TCP/IP? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A protocol suite that governs how data packets are
transferred over the Internet from one machine to another"
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,"What is an HTTP request? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A message sent from the web browser to the web
server"
"What is an HTTP response? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A message sent from the web server back to the
web browser in response to an HTTP request"
"What is Content-Length? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message
body"
"What is Content-Type? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Media type of the HTTP response's message body"
"What is Date in an HTTP response? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Datetime the HTTP response was
generated by the web server"
"What is Last-Modified in an HTTP response? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Datetime the requested resource
was last modified on the web server"
"What is Server in an HTTP response? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Identifies the web server software that
generated the HTTP response"
"What is the design principle of breaking up web content? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Separation of
concerns"
"What is an HTML element? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A single HTML structure represented with tags"
"What is a tag? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A descriptive name surrounded by < and > characters used to
display content"
"What is a link? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A clickable item that opens another webpage when clicked"
"What is CSS? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Cascading Style Sheets - a language for describing webpage
styling"
"What is a CSS rule? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Specifies styling properties for specific HTML elements"
"What is JavaScript? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A programming language that runs in a browser"
"What is a function? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A named group of statements that can be executed"
"What is a variable? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Stores a value or a reference to a webpage element"
"What is the optional attribute used with the <img> element? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Alt attribute"
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, "What is aspect ratio? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The ratio of image width to height"
"What does JPEG stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Joint Photographic Experts Group"
"What is PNG? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Portable Network Graphics"
"What does GIF stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Graphics Interchange Format"
"What type of compression is used by JPEG images? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Lossy compression"
"What type of compression is used by PNG and GIF images? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Lossless
compression"
"What is true color? - CORRECT ANSWER=> 24-bit color with approximately 16 million different colors"
"What is a favicon? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A small icon that identifies a website"
"What does an anchor tag do? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Defines a hyperlink in a webpage"
"What is a hyperlink? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Specifies where other information is located and what
action the web browser should perform when a user clicks the hyperlink."
"What is the href attribute? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Specifies the hyperlink's URL."
"What is the 'mailto' hyperlink used for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Used to send requests and responses
over the Internet without encryption."
"What is the 'file' hyperlink used for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Used to refer to a document on the same
computer as the web browser."
"What is an absolute URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A complete URL that includes a scheme (http://,
https://, etc.)"
"What is a relative URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Specifies the relative path to the web resource with no
scheme or hostname."
"What does the ID attribute do? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Creates a fragment identifier, permitting URLs
to link directly to the id's location in the document."
"What is a graphical hyperlink? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Also known as an Image Link, uses an image
inside a hyperlink instead of text."
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FOUNDATIONS EXAM A, B & STUDY
GUIDE LATEST ACTUAL EXAM 350
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY GRADED A+
"What does URL stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Uniform Resource Locator"
"What is a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The location of a web resource, such as
http://www.google.com"
"What is a scheme in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Characters at the beginning of a URL followed by a
colon (:) or a colon and double slashes (://)"
"What is a hostname in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The complete domain name following the
scheme in a URL"
"What is a path in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The characters to the right of the hostname in a URL"
"What is a query string in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Optional characters to the right of the
question mark (?) in a URL that provide data for the web server"
"What is a fragment in a URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Optional characters at the end of a URL that with
a hash character (#) and refer to a certain location within a webpage"
"What is a 404? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The status code that a web server returns to a browser when a
requested webpage is not found"
"What is linkrot? - CORRECT 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"
"What does TCP/IP stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Transmission Control Protocol / Internet
Protocol"
"What is TCP/IP? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A protocol suite that governs how data packets are
transferred over the Internet from one machine to another"
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,"What is an HTTP request? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A message sent from the web browser to the web
server"
"What is an HTTP response? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A message sent from the web server back to the
web browser in response to an HTTP request"
"What is Content-Length? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message
body"
"What is Content-Type? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Media type of the HTTP response's message body"
"What is Date in an HTTP response? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Datetime the HTTP response was
generated by the web server"
"What is Last-Modified in an HTTP response? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Datetime the requested resource
was last modified on the web server"
"What is Server in an HTTP response? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Identifies the web server software that
generated the HTTP response"
"What is the design principle of breaking up web content? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Separation of
concerns"
"What is an HTML element? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A single HTML structure represented with tags"
"What is a tag? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A descriptive name surrounded by < and > characters used to
display content"
"What is a link? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A clickable item that opens another webpage when clicked"
"What is CSS? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Cascading Style Sheets - a language for describing webpage
styling"
"What is a CSS rule? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Specifies styling properties for specific HTML elements"
"What is JavaScript? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A programming language that runs in a browser"
"What is a function? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A named group of statements that can be executed"
"What is a variable? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Stores a value or a reference to a webpage element"
"What is the optional attribute used with the <img> element? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Alt attribute"
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, "What is aspect ratio? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The ratio of image width to height"
"What does JPEG stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Joint Photographic Experts Group"
"What is PNG? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Portable Network Graphics"
"What does GIF stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Graphics Interchange Format"
"What type of compression is used by JPEG images? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Lossy compression"
"What type of compression is used by PNG and GIF images? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Lossless
compression"
"What is true color? - CORRECT ANSWER=> 24-bit color with approximately 16 million different colors"
"What is a favicon? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A small icon that identifies a website"
"What does an anchor tag do? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Defines a hyperlink in a webpage"
"What is a hyperlink? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Specifies where other information is located and what
action the web browser should perform when a user clicks the hyperlink."
"What is the href attribute? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Specifies the hyperlink's URL."
"What is the 'mailto' hyperlink used for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Used to send requests and responses
over the Internet without encryption."
"What is the 'file' hyperlink used for? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Used to refer to a document on the same
computer as the web browser."
"What is an absolute URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> A complete URL that includes a scheme (http://,
https://, etc.)"
"What is a relative URL? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Specifies the relative path to the web resource with no
scheme or hostname."
"What does the ID attribute do? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Creates a fragment identifier, permitting URLs
to link directly to the id's location in the document."
"What is a graphical hyperlink? - CORRECT ANSWER=> Also known as an Image Link, uses an image
inside a hyperlink instead of text."
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