WGU D276 WEB DEVELOPMENT
FOUNDATIONS FINAL PAPER 2026
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS STUDY GUIDE GRADED A+
●● HTTP.
Answer: HypterText Transfer Protocol
●● World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Answer: An international community that develops open standards for
the Web. Created in 1993
●● Web Hyptertext Application Technology Working Group
(WHATWG).
Answer: organization that develops a variety of web standards and
whose members include the major browser vendors. 2019
●● HTML Living Standard.
Answer: a continually evolving standard without version numbers that
replaces HTML5. Created by WHATWG
●● 1945.
,Answer: What year did the idea for generating links from within one
document to other documents is described.
●● 1965.
Answer: When was the hyperlink invented?
●● 1990.
Answer: First web browser is created
●● 1995.
Answer: HTML 2.0 standard published
●● 2014.
Answer: HTML5 standard published.
●● Separation of duties.
Answer: Over time, a move to separate document structure (HTML),
document presentation (CSS), and webpage interaction with the user
(JavaScript).
●● Root Servers.
Answer: Thirteen main DNS servers that exist in the world.
,●● Top level domain.
Answer: .com .org etc
●● ccTLD.
Answer: country code .us .uk
●● Query string.
Answer: Optional characters to the right of the question mark (?) in a
URL that provide data for the web server.
●● Fragment.
Answer: Optional characters at the end of a URL that with a hash
character (#) and refer to a certain location within a webpage.
●● 404.
Answer: The status code that a web server returns to a browser when a
requested webpage is not found.
●● 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.
●● TCP/IP.
, Answer: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, a protocol
suite that governs how data packets are transferred over the Internet
from one machine to another.
●● HTTP Request.
Answer: A message sent from the web browser to the web server.
●● HTTP Response.
Answer: A message sent from the web server back to the web browser in
response to an HTTP request.
●● Content-Length.
Answer: Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message body.
●● Content-Type.
Answer: Media type of the HTTP response's message body
●● HTTP Server.
Answer: Identifies the web server software that generated the HTTP
response.
●● HOST (http request).
Answer: The domain name for the HTTP requested path.
FOUNDATIONS FINAL PAPER 2026
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS STUDY GUIDE GRADED A+
●● HTTP.
Answer: HypterText Transfer Protocol
●● World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Answer: An international community that develops open standards for
the Web. Created in 1993
●● Web Hyptertext Application Technology Working Group
(WHATWG).
Answer: organization that develops a variety of web standards and
whose members include the major browser vendors. 2019
●● HTML Living Standard.
Answer: a continually evolving standard without version numbers that
replaces HTML5. Created by WHATWG
●● 1945.
,Answer: What year did the idea for generating links from within one
document to other documents is described.
●● 1965.
Answer: When was the hyperlink invented?
●● 1990.
Answer: First web browser is created
●● 1995.
Answer: HTML 2.0 standard published
●● 2014.
Answer: HTML5 standard published.
●● Separation of duties.
Answer: Over time, a move to separate document structure (HTML),
document presentation (CSS), and webpage interaction with the user
(JavaScript).
●● Root Servers.
Answer: Thirteen main DNS servers that exist in the world.
,●● Top level domain.
Answer: .com .org etc
●● ccTLD.
Answer: country code .us .uk
●● Query string.
Answer: Optional characters to the right of the question mark (?) in a
URL that provide data for the web server.
●● Fragment.
Answer: Optional characters at the end of a URL that with a hash
character (#) and refer to a certain location within a webpage.
●● 404.
Answer: The status code that a web server returns to a browser when a
requested webpage is not found.
●● 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.
●● TCP/IP.
, Answer: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, a protocol
suite that governs how data packets are transferred over the Internet
from one machine to another.
●● HTTP Request.
Answer: A message sent from the web browser to the web server.
●● HTTP Response.
Answer: A message sent from the web server back to the web browser in
response to an HTTP request.
●● Content-Length.
Answer: Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message body.
●● Content-Type.
Answer: Media type of the HTTP response's message body
●● HTTP Server.
Answer: Identifies the web server software that generated the HTTP
response.
●● HOST (http request).
Answer: The domain name for the HTTP requested path.
