Intermission Questions/Answers

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Describe, step by step, what happens when I type www.example.com into my browser and try to go to the page?
  - The internet helps the domain name get translated into an IP address. It then sends teh HTTP gets request to the server which sends a response back to the user. 

What does HTTP stand for?
  - Hypertext Transfer Protocol

What protocol does the World Wide Web use?
  - HTTP
  
Each computer on the Internet is assigned an IP address, what does IP stand for?
  - Internet Protocol 
  
What does DNS stand for?
A. Domain Name System . <------ this one!
B. Digital Number System
C. Domain Number System
D. Domain Name Service
E. Digital Name Service


How are text domain names matched to their respective numeric IP addresses.
  - When a domain name is typed and entered into a browser, the browser sends a query to find teh IP address of the domain. The query goes to the ISP and then takes the query to another DNS server to find the address. It talks to the root server to get to a top level domain server. Once the query reaches this TLD server, the server gives the IP address of the domain. 
  
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 <---- this one!


What does URL stand for?
  - Uniform Resource Protocols
  
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 <---- this one!
E.	The standardised method for prioratising data or document storage over a network


What does DNS stand for?
  - Domain Name System
  
what is the www portion of a url?
  - World Wide Web
  
What is The markup language used for all web documents?
  - HTML
  
What is the organization that monitors web technologies?
  - W3C 
  
What is the Protocol for transferring web documents on the Internet?
  - File Transfer Protocol
  
What matches the domain names with numeric IP addresses?
  - Domain Name System