CS331 HTML Programming

Review for First Quiz

 

  1. What is the World Wide Web?
    1. a new way for Bill Gates to make money
    2. the remnants of an old Cold War computer system
    3. the way to access games before they hit the stores
    4. a network of computers that can be accessed from home or work


  2. Web browsers
    1. allow us to spy on computer systems
    2. look at computers for diagnostics
    3. eat the grass, but don't bother the spiders
    4. are web document readers


  3. URL stands for
    1. Unnecessary Roughness Limitation
    2. Unusual Radio Lingo
    3. Ulysses R. Lincoln, last scandal of the Civil War
    4. Universal Resource Locator


  4. What is another valid definition for URL?

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  5. Browsers can access all of these except
    1. text pages on the web
    2. video files on the internet
    3. live sound files from radio stations
    4. Jim Kirk's address book


  6. Write a short definition for each term.
    1. web page
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    2. web site
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    3. web presentation
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    4. home page
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  7. What are each of these protocols for?
    1. HTTP
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    2. gopher
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    3. mailto
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    4. FTP
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  8. Explain what each of these tags are for:
    1. <A>
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    2. <HEAD>
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    3. <H1>
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    4. <TITLE>
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    5. <UL>
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    6. <OL>
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    7. <LI>
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    8. <HTML>
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  9. Name two tags that are modified in the XHTML standard to be self-closing:

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    2. __________________________________________________


  10. Name two name brand browsers and the companies associated with creating them:

    1. __________________________________________________

    2. __________________________________________________


  11. In order to link to a specific paragraph in a document you must use
    1. the <P> tag
    2. the <LINK> tag
    3. the NAME option in the <A> tag
    4. the <JUMP> tag


  12. What are the three main parts of an HTML page, according to Chapter 3?

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    2. __________________________________________________

    3. __________________________________________________


  13. The storyboard technique is for
    1. planning web sites
    2. putting children to bed
    3. getting publishing approval for web sites
    4. retelling the legends of the lumber people


  14. A diagram of a site that goes from A to B to C without deviation is said to be
    1. linear
    2. hierarchical
    3. optional
    4. web based

  15. Assume that you are going to create the list from the question above. What tag set must be used to create it? What option must be used and what value must it be given?

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    2. __________________________________________________


  16. How do you create a remark in an ordinary HTML file? How do you make the remark continue for several lines?

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    2. __________________________________________________


  17. Write the code that would create a relative link to jump from the current page to a page called "page2.htm". Use the phrase "link to page 2" as the text that the user should click.
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  18. Why are absolute links sometimes necessary to use instead of relative links?

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  19. What is included in the URL for an absolute link that goes across the Internet which is not included in a relative link?

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