WGU D276 WEB DEVELOPMENT TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is linkrot? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
✔✔What is TCP/IP? - ✔✔A protocol suite that governs how data packets are
transferred over the Internet from one machine to another
✔✔What is an HTTP request? - ✔✔A message sent from the web browser to the web
server
✔✔What is an HTTP response? - ✔✔A message sent from the web server back to the
web browser in response to an HTTP request
✔✔What is Content-Length? - ✔✔Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message
body
✔✔What is Content-Type? - ✔✔Media type of the HTTP response's message body
✔✔What is Date in an HTTP response? - ✔✔Datetime the HTTP response was
generated by the web server
✔✔What is Last-Modified in an HTTP response? - ✔✔Datetime the requested resource
was last modified on the web server
✔✔What is Server in an HTTP response? - ✔✔Identifies the web server software that
generated the HTTP response
✔✔What is the design principle of breaking up web content? - ✔✔Separation of
concerns
✔✔What is an HTML element? - ✔✔A single HTML structure represented with tags
✔✔What is a tag? - ✔✔A descriptive name surrounded by < and > characters used to
display content
✔✔What is a link? - ✔✔A clickable item that opens another webpage when clicked
✔✔What is CSS? - ✔✔Cascading Style Sheets - a language for describing webpage
styling
, ✔✔What is a CSS rule? - ✔✔Specifies styling properties for specific HTML elements
✔✔What is JavaScript? - ✔✔A programming language that runs in a browser
✔✔What is a function? - ✔✔A named group of statements that can be executed
✔✔What is a variable? - ✔✔Stores a value or a reference to a webpage element
✔✔What is the optional attribute used with the <img> element? - ✔✔Alt attribute
✔✔What is aspect ratio? - ✔✔The ratio of image width to height
✔✔What does JPEG stand for? - ✔✔Joint Photographic Experts Group
✔✔What is PNG? - ✔✔Portable Network Graphics
✔✔What does GIF stand for? - ✔✔Graphics Interchange Format
✔✔What type of compression is used by JPEG images? - ✔✔Lossy compression
✔✔What type of compression is used by PNG and GIF images? - ✔✔Lossless
compression
✔✔What is true color? - ✔✔24-bit color with approximately 16 million different colors
✔✔What is a favicon? - ✔✔A small icon that identifies a website
✔✔What does an anchor tag do? - ✔✔Defines a hyperlink in a webpage
✔✔What is a hyperlink? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Specifies the hyperlink's URL.
✔✔What is the 'mailto' hyperlink used for? - ✔✔Used to send requests and responses
over the Internet without encryption.
✔✔What is the 'file' hyperlink used for? - ✔✔Used to refer to a document on the same
computer as the web browser.
✔✔What is an absolute URL? - ✔✔A complete URL that includes a scheme (http://,
https://, etc.)
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is linkrot? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
✔✔What is TCP/IP? - ✔✔A protocol suite that governs how data packets are
transferred over the Internet from one machine to another
✔✔What is an HTTP request? - ✔✔A message sent from the web browser to the web
server
✔✔What is an HTTP response? - ✔✔A message sent from the web server back to the
web browser in response to an HTTP request
✔✔What is Content-Length? - ✔✔Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message
body
✔✔What is Content-Type? - ✔✔Media type of the HTTP response's message body
✔✔What is Date in an HTTP response? - ✔✔Datetime the HTTP response was
generated by the web server
✔✔What is Last-Modified in an HTTP response? - ✔✔Datetime the requested resource
was last modified on the web server
✔✔What is Server in an HTTP response? - ✔✔Identifies the web server software that
generated the HTTP response
✔✔What is the design principle of breaking up web content? - ✔✔Separation of
concerns
✔✔What is an HTML element? - ✔✔A single HTML structure represented with tags
✔✔What is a tag? - ✔✔A descriptive name surrounded by < and > characters used to
display content
✔✔What is a link? - ✔✔A clickable item that opens another webpage when clicked
✔✔What is CSS? - ✔✔Cascading Style Sheets - a language for describing webpage
styling
, ✔✔What is a CSS rule? - ✔✔Specifies styling properties for specific HTML elements
✔✔What is JavaScript? - ✔✔A programming language that runs in a browser
✔✔What is a function? - ✔✔A named group of statements that can be executed
✔✔What is a variable? - ✔✔Stores a value or a reference to a webpage element
✔✔What is the optional attribute used with the <img> element? - ✔✔Alt attribute
✔✔What is aspect ratio? - ✔✔The ratio of image width to height
✔✔What does JPEG stand for? - ✔✔Joint Photographic Experts Group
✔✔What is PNG? - ✔✔Portable Network Graphics
✔✔What does GIF stand for? - ✔✔Graphics Interchange Format
✔✔What type of compression is used by JPEG images? - ✔✔Lossy compression
✔✔What type of compression is used by PNG and GIF images? - ✔✔Lossless
compression
✔✔What is true color? - ✔✔24-bit color with approximately 16 million different colors
✔✔What is a favicon? - ✔✔A small icon that identifies a website
✔✔What does an anchor tag do? - ✔✔Defines a hyperlink in a webpage
✔✔What is a hyperlink? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Specifies the hyperlink's URL.
✔✔What is the 'mailto' hyperlink used for? - ✔✔Used to send requests and responses
over the Internet without encryption.
✔✔What is the 'file' hyperlink used for? - ✔✔Used to refer to a document on the same
computer as the web browser.
✔✔What is an absolute URL? - ✔✔A complete URL that includes a scheme (http://,
https://, etc.)
