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How The Web Works

QUIZ:

  1. Describe, step by step, what happens when I type www.example.com into my browser and try to go to the page?
  • ANSWER:
  • Client Makes Request
  • Request hits the server / router
  • Server sends requent to the controller
  • Controller sends request to the model
  • Model queries database
  • Database sends back info to the model
  • Model fills out a view with applicable data
  • View goes back through controller to present information desired.
  • Server sends back info to the client.
  • Rinse and repeat.
  1. What does HTTP stand for?
  • ANSWER: Hyper Text Transfer protocol
  1. What protocol does the World Wide Web use?
  • ANSWER: HTML
  1. Each computer on the Internet is assigned an IP address, what does IP stand for?
  • ANSWER: Internet Protocol?
  1. What does DNS stand for?
  • D. Domain Name Service
  1. How are text domain names matched to their respective numeric IP addresses.Matching the text domain names to their respective numeric IP addresses is the job of a seperate __________ server.
  • ANSWER: RNS SERVER
  1. What is the client?
  • C. The software which requests information from a server (browser)
  1. What does URL stand for?
  • ANSWER: Uniform Resource Locator
  1. What are protocols
  • D. The standardised method for transferring data or documents over a network
  1. What does DNS stand for?
  • ANSWER: Domain Name Server
  1. what is the www portion of a url?
  • ANSWER: World Wide Web
  1. What is The markup language used for all web documents?
  • ANSWER: HTML
  1. What is the organization that monitors web technologies?
  • ANSWER: w3c
  1. What is the Protocol for transferring web documents on the Internet?
  • ANSWER:HTTP or HTTPS
  1. What matches the domain names with numeric IP addresses?
  • ANSWER:Authorative Name Servers
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