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Danny Radden - How The Web Works

How The Web Works

Today we are going to investigate the way the web works.

Materials:

QUIZ:

Now we have a better grasp about the internet, and how some of the things are working. Now, let's answer a few questions to check our understanding. Don't be afraid to do additional research (googleing) for an answer. Fork this gist and answer the following questions:

  1. Describe, step by step, what happens when I type www.example.com into my browser and try to go to the page?
  • ANSWER:
  1. What does HTTP stand for?
  • ANSWER:
  1. What protocol does the World Wide Web use?
  • ANSWER:
  1. Each computer on the Internet is assigned an IP address, what does IP stand for?
  • ANSWER:
  1. What does DNS stand for?
  • A. Domain Name System
  • B. Digital Number System
  • C. Domain Number System
  • D. Domain Name Service
  • E. Digital 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:
  1. What is the client?
  • A. A purchaser
  • B. Internet shopping customer (Consumer)
  • C. The software which requests information from a server (browser)
  • D. The server to which a particular computer sends data
  • E. The computer which the IP address belongs to
  1. What does URL stand for?
  • ANSWER:
  1. What are protocols
  • A. The standardisation of IP addressess
  • B. The DNS standard method for data transfer
  • C. The standardised network address system
  • D. The standardised method for transferring data or documents over a network
  • E. The standardised method for prioratising data or document storage over a network
  1. What does DNS stand for?
  • ANSWER:
  1. what is the www portion of a url?
  • ANSWER:
  1. What is The markup language used for all web documents?
  • ANSWER:
  1. What is the organization that monitors web technologies?
  • ANSWER:
  1. What is the Protocol for transferring web documents on the Internet?
  • ANSWER:
  1. What matches the domain names with numeric IP addresses?
  • ANSWER:
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