Questions and CORRECT Answers
HTML - CORRECT ANSWER - Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for
tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
HTTP - CORRECT ANSWER - HypterText Transfer Protocol
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - CORRECT ANSWER - An international
community that develops open standards for the Web. Created in 1993
Web Hyptertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) - CORRECT
ANSWER - organization that develops a variety of web standards and whose members
include the major browser vendors. 2019
HTML Living Standard - CORRECT ANSWER - a continually evolving standard without
version numbers that replaces HTML5. Created by WHATWG
1945 - CORRECT ANSWER - What year did the idea for generating links from within one
document to other documents is described.
1965 - CORRECT ANSWER - When was the hyperlink invented?
1990 - CORRECT ANSWER - First web browser is created
1995 - CORRECT ANSWER - HTML 2.0 standard published
2014 - CORRECT ANSWER - HTML5 standard published.
,Separation of duties - CORRECT ANSWER - Over time, a move to separate document
structure (HTML), document presentation (CSS), and webpage interaction with the user
(JavaScript).
Root Servers - CORRECT ANSWER - Thirteen main DNS servers that exist in the world.
Top level domain - CORRECT ANSWER - .com .org etc
ccTLD - CORRECT ANSWER - country code .us .uk
Query string - CORRECT ANSWER - Optional characters to the right of the question
mark (?) in a URL that provide data for the web server.
Fragment - CORRECT ANSWER - Optional characters at the end of a URL that with a
hash character (#) and refer to a certain location within a webpage.
404 - CORRECT ANSWER - The status code that a web server returns to a browser when
a requested webpage is not found.
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.
TCP/IP - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - A message sent from the web browser to the web
server.
HTTP Response - CORRECT ANSWER - A message sent from the web server back to the
web browser in response to an HTTP request.
, Content-Length - CORRECT ANSWER - Number of bytes in the HTTP response's
message body.
Content-Type - CORRECT ANSWER - Media type of the HTTP response's message body
HTTP Server - CORRECT ANSWER - Identifies the web server software that generated
the HTTP response.
HOST (http request) - CORRECT ANSWER - The domain name for the HTTP requested
path.
USER-AGENT (http request) - CORRECT ANSWER - Identifies the browser making the
HTTP request.
IANA - CORRECT ANSWER - Internet Assigned Numbers Authroity - a standards
organization that manages various internet numbers and symbols, like global IP address
allocation, root zone management, and media types.
ETag - CORRECT ANSWER - Entity Tag, an identifier for a specific version of a web
resource.
Affordances - CORRECT ANSWER - Visual clues that guide the user in figuring out how
to use an app.
Separation of Concerns - CORRECT ANSWER - The design principle of breaking up web
content using distinct languages and documents that overlap as little as possible.
HTML Element - CORRECT ANSWER - A single HTML structure that is represented
with HTML tags.