Comp 484 Midterm Chap 1-4
Computers do not possess voices. Their exchanges involve transmitting the bits (0s and 1s) that represent computer data. Because of this, the name data communications was adopted to distinguish it from voice communications between people.
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Different kinds of networks and even individual computers can be interconnected. Internetworks range from a local group formed by a company's internal networks to a global interconnection of networks.
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Hyperlinks, addresses that take us from page to page and site to site, make traversing the Web straightforward.
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In the earliest stages of telephone use, to call one telephone from another required the two telephones to be directly connected by a pair of wires carrying electricity.
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The beginning of the Internet is usually traced to its precursor, the ARPANET, but a case can be made that the impetus dates back to October 1957 when the USSR launched the Sputnik satellite.
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The beginning of the internet is usually traced to its precursor, the ARPANET, but a case can be made that the impetus dates back to October 1957 when the USSR Launched the sputnik satellite
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Today most telephone systems around the world use computer-based switching and multiplexing equipment that has given rise to a tremendous increase in the number and quality of services provided.
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Toward the end of the 1980s, the ARPANET was opened to the general public, and from there the development of the Internet ensued.
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A media query for a responsive design typically includes one or more conditional expressions that indicate the widths of the devices it will be used for
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Which of the following selectors applies to all <a> elements with "hot" as their class name that are coded within a div element that has "header" as its id?
#header a.hot
Which of the following selectors is most specific?
#nav
A _________ makes websites available to other computer over a network
(web server)
To apply styles to all elements, you can use the ______________________ selector.
*
Which of the following is a valid selector for a class name menu?
.menu
To include a CSS file in an HTML document, you use the ___________ element.
<link>
A media query is defined by a CSS3 ____________________ selector.
@media
What character entity is created by the character?
A SPACE
Three inline elements are
A, B, IMG
To help the visually impaired, you should always provide an adequate description of the image in the _______________________ attribute for the image.
ALT
When a client requests a dynamic web page, the HTML is generated by
An application server
To apply boldface to text with HTML, you can enclose the text within a/an ____________ element.
B
In a web application, the client uses a __________ to interact with a web server
BROWSER
When you include JavaScript in a web application, the language is run by the JavaScript engine of the
BROWSER
In the rule set that follows, the selector applies to all elements that have "red" as their ____________________________ name..red { color: red; }
CLASS
Because all web browsers don't interpret HTML and CSS the same way, a major web development issue is
CROSS BROWSER COMPATIBILITY
To format a web page, you use
CSS
Which of the following should you do to provide accessibility to img elements with useful content?
Code an alt attribute that describes the image.
You should use the ___________________ element to identify a section of a web page only when the HTML5 semantic elements don't apply.
DIV
In an http URL the _________________ is coded immediately after the protocol but before the path
DOMAIN
Which of the following is NOT an acceptable way to test a responsive design?
Deploy the website to a server and test it to on your desktop
Which of the following techniques can you use to develop the media queries for a responsive design?
Develop the design for the smallest mobile device, and then develop the media queries for successively larger screens. Develop the media query for the desktop, and then develop the media queries for successively smaller screens. Develop the design for the desktop, and then develop the media queries for successively smaller screens. Develop the media queries for the smallest mobile device, and then develop the media queries for successively larger screens. ALL OF THE ABOVE IS THE ANSWER
One way to provide the styles for printing a web page is to use a @media ____________ selector within the style sheet for displaying the web page.
Display the styles for an element in a stylesheet that have overridden inherited styles
Which of the following units of measurement is equal to the font size for the current font?
EM
Although client/server is sometimes described as a relationship between hardware devices-as in client computer and server computer-it more accurately indicates a relationship between protocols - that is, how different types of software running on network devices interact.
FALSE
Companies that form strategic partnerships, business to business links and other forms of temporary and permanent alliances when these networks use the TCP/IP Protocols they are called intranets
FALSE
The OSI reference model, a de facto standard of the ISO standards organization, views networks as having seven distinct functional groups, called layers.
FALSE
When you use a/an ________________ layout, the width of the web page and its structural elements adjust to the size of the screen.
FLUID
A _________ is a tiny image that appears in the browser's tab for the page
Favion
Although the img element is an inline element, you can use CSS to _____________ an img element so the HTML elements that come after it will flow into the space alongside of it.
Float
A web application starts when a client sends a/an _______________ to a server.
HTTP request
When you code a selector that selects by _________________ the rule set applies to just one HTML element or a small amount of HTML elements.
ID
Google publishes a web browser named
INTERNET EXPLORER
When you code a selector that selects by _____________, the rule set applies to just one HTML element or a small amount of HTML elements
Id
The HTML5 figure element is typically used as a container for
Images
The <a> element that follows goes to a web page <a href="books/javascript.html"> JavaScript and DOM Scripting</a>
In a folder that is subordinate to the current page
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model
Is a de jure standard
A local area network (LAN)
Is confined to an office, building, or small cluster of buildings
Every Domain name
Is globally unique
When you use a meta element with media queries, you should always
Keep the user from scaling the page Set the initial zoom factor to 1 to prevent automatic scaling Set the width of the viewport to the device width ALL OF THE ABOVE IS ANSWER
An intranet is __________________ area network that is used for web applications.
LOCAL
The portion of a web page that displays the most important content is commonly coded as an HTML5 ____________________ element.
MAIN
When you're developing the HTML for web pages that will run on mobile devices, you can use ______________ elements to set the viewport properties.
META
element in the head section of an HTML document can provide data that is used by some search engines.
META
Common type of image format for photographs in web pages NOT include ________ format.
MOV
A web page that uses a fixed layout
Maintains the same width for all screen sizes
Which of the following is NOT part of an HTTP URL:
NODE
One way to provide the styles for printing a web page is to use a @media ________________ selector within the stylesheet for displaying the web page.
Which of the following do you use to specify measurements for a fluid layout?
Percentages
To specify a color in a CSS rule, you can code a/an _____________ value in percentages or in hexadecimal numbers.
RGB
When you use ________________ font sizes, the size of the font is based on the font size of the parent element.
Relative
Which of the following do you NOT have to do to create a scalable image whose width is limited to its native size?
Remove the image's height and width properties from the HTML (MAYBEEEE)
A web application starts when a client sends a/an ____________ to a server.
Request
web page is one that doesn't change
STATIC
An image whose size changes based on the width of the element that contains it is called a/an _________________ image.
Scalable
Using the techniques that will help your website rank higher in search engine results is called
Search engine optimization .
The client/server model refers to a relationship between
Software processes
By default, the <br> tag
Starts a new line of text
As a best practice, you should only use the height and width attributes of an img element to specify
The actual size of the image
can be used by CSS to apply the same formatting to more than one HTML element
The class attribute
A ___________ is a small version of an image that can be used for linking to a page that has a large version of the same image.
Thumbnail
To create a thumbnail for a larger image, you can
Use an image editor
To load a web page from an intranet into your web browser, you can
Use the Open or Open File command in the File menu
makes websites available to other computers over a network.
WAN
When will the styles for the media query that follows be applied? @media only screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 959px)
When the width of the screen is greater than 768 pixels and less than 959 pixels
When you use an external style sheet with an HTML document, you get all but one of the benefits that follow. Which one is it?
Your CSS files are easy to create and maintain
A web page that uses a fluid layout
adapts gracefully to all screen sizes
When you create an image map, you use an area element to define each clickable hotspot along with
an href attribute that identifies the page that the hotspot links to
The img element that follows gets the image file from the images folder, which is <p><img src="../images/logo.gif" alt="Murach Logo"></p>
at the same level as the current folder
Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that you can specify a color in CSS?
color: getColor("red");
Because all web browsers don't interpret HTML and CSS the same way, a major web development issue is _________________ compatibility.
cross browser
A relative URL is relative to the _________________ web page
current
The open systems interconnection OSI reference model is a
de facto standard
In the rule set that follows, the selector selects all paragraph elements that are ____________________________ of the element with "main" as its id. #main p { font-size: 75%; }
descendants
The media queries for a website that uses a responsive design
detect the screen size and then apply the styles for that size
When the code that follows is loaded into the browser, it <h2>About this book</h2>
displays "About this book" in the default h2 format
The img element that follows <p><img src="../images/logo.gif" alt="Murach Logo"></p>
displays "Murach Logo" within a p element
The <a> element that follows <a href="update.html">Update</a>
displays "Update" as a link
An HTML document that's generated by a web application is a ___________________ web page.
dynamic
To create an animated image, you use
gif WITH FRAMES
The <a> element that follows goes to a web page <a href="books/javscript.html">JavaScript and DOM Scripting</a>
in a folder that is subordinate to the root folder for the website
A series of navigation links should usually be coded within an HTML5 ____________________ element.
nav
When you ___________ a website, you upload its folders and files from a WAN to an internet Server
publish
To view the source code for a web page in any browser, you can
right-click the page and then select the View Source or View Page Source command
A path that is relative to the root folder of a website is called a/an
root relative path.
The E-mail transfer agent
sends e-mail from one computer or mail server to another.
The title element in the head section of an HTML document specifies the text
that's displayed in the browser's tab for the page
An HTTP response is sent from
the web server to the client
To load a web page into a web browser, you can
type the URL of the web page into the browser's address bar
