Deck 8: Web Server Hardware and Software

Question 1

Platform neutrality was a critical factor in the rapid spread and widespread acceptance of the Web.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The rejected e-mails in a white list spam filter are deleted.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Software applications that generate information are located in the first tier of n-tier architectures.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

When people use Web browser software to become part of the Web, their computers become Web client computers on a worldwide client/server network.

Question 5

Very small companies can run Web sites on desktop PCs.

Question 6

Linux is a closed-source operating system software.

Question 7

The entity body of a response message returns the HTML page requested by the client machine.

Question 8

A black list spam filter cannot be implemented at the individual level.

Question 9

The basic Web client/server model is a three-tier model.

Question 10

The three main elements of a Web server are the hardware, operating system software, and Web server software.

Question 11

In dynamic page-generation technologies, server-side scripts and HTML-tagged text are used independently to create the dynamic Web page.

Question 12

A single client request always results in dozens or even hundreds of separate server responses to locate and deliver information.

Question 13

The challenge-response content-filtering technique uses a black list as the basis for a confirmation procedure.

Question 14

Computers that are connected to the Internet and make some of their contents publicly available using the HTTP protocol are called Web servers.

Question 15

A two-tier client/server architecture is sufficient for delivering dynamic content and processing transactions.

Question 16

With remote server administration software, a Web site administrator can control a Web site from any Internet-connected computer.

Question 17

The computers that perform the server function usually have more memory and larger, faster disk drives than the client computers they serve.

Question 18

The two most commonly used Web server programs are Apache HTTP Server and Microsoft Internet Information Server, IIS.

Question 19

The Internet connects many different types of computers that are running different types of operating system software.

Question 20

In client-side scripting, changes are  generated within the browser using software such as JavaScript.

Question 21

FreeBSD is a(n) _____-based operating system.

A) Apple
B) UNIX
C) Linux
D) Windows 2000 Server

Question 22

A(n) _____ indicates the HTTP version used by the server, the status of the response, and an explanation of the status information.

A) response header field
B) request header message
C) optional entity body
D) response header line

Question 23

In a client/server architecture, an optional _____ is sometimes used to pass bulk information to the server.

A) request line
B) request message
C) entity body
D) request header

Question 24

_____ lets programmers create Web pages that will update asynchronously while the rest of the Web page continues to be displayed in the browser.

A) ASP
B) CGI
C) AJAX
D) C++

Question 25

Customized pages provided by Web servers in response to specific queries from site visitors are called _____.

A) dynamic content
B) Active Server Pages
C) static pages
D) unchanged content

Question 26

In _____, software operates on the browser to change what is displayed on the Web page in response to a user's actions.

A) client-side scripting
B) server-side scripting
C) basic content filtering
D) static content generation

Question 27

In a client/server architecture, the _____ contains a command, the name of the target resource, and the protocol name and version number.

A) request header
B) request line
C) entity body
D) response header

Question 28

_____ is a standard way of interfacing external applications with Web servers.

A) Common Gateway Interface
B) Graphical User Interface
C) Server-side scripting
D) Client-side scripting

Question 29

One element that affects overall server performance is the server hardware.

Question 30

A _____ spam filter examines From addresses and compares them to a list of known good sender addresses.

A) black list
B) full-privilege
C) tracert
D) white list

Question 31

A drawback of decentralized architecture is that if one of the few servers becomes inoperable, a large portion of the site's capacity is lost.

Question 32

The smaller servers used in the decentralized architecture are more expensive than the large servers used in the centralized approach.

Question 33

A centralized architecture spreads failure risk over a large number of servers.

Question 34

_____ continually conducts surveys to tally the number of Web sites in existence and track which Web server software each uses.

A) BBC
B) Microsoft
C) Netcraft
D) CNN

Question 35

_____ Server has dominated the Web since 1996 because it is free and performs very efficiently.

A) Apache HTTP
B) Microsoft IIS
C) UNIX
D) Linux

Question 36

In _____, a program running on a Web server creates a Web page in response to a request for specific information from a Web client.

A) client-side scripting
B) server-level filtering
C) server-side scripting
D) client-level filtering

Question 37

A _____ is an unsolicited commercial e-mail.

A) spam
B) program
C) virus
D) filter

Question 38

A _____ page is an unchanging page retrieved from a file on a Web server.

A) static
B) customized
C) personalized
D) dynamic

Question 39

A(n) _____ is a program that attaches itself to another program and can cause damage when the host program is activated.

A) e-mail filter
B) debugging code
C) computer virus
D) dead link

Question 40

Few large centralized sites use load-balancing systems, at an additional expense, to assign the workload efficiently.

Question 41

_____ is the number of HTTP requests that a particular hardware and software combination can process in a unit of time.

A) Protocol
B) Throughput
C) Filter capacity
D) Tracert capacity

Question 42

In the context of multiple meanings of the term server, the server computer that handles incoming and outgoing e-mail is usually called a(n) _____.

Question 43

The _____ is the part of the TCP/IP rules that defines the formats used to transfer files between TCP/IP-connected computers.

A) black list spam filter
B) white list spam filter
C) File Transfer Protocol
D) Microsoft Internet Information Server

Question 44

_____ in the form of programs called Java servlets, is a technology which is used to create dynamic Web pages.

Question 45

A _____, when clicked, displays an error message rather than a Web page.

A) link checker
B) computer virus
C) filter
D) dead link

Question 46

A(n) _____ file is a file on a Web server that is not linked to any page.

A) lost
B) index
C) orphan
D) independent

Question 47

The Web client/server model in which messages are created and read only by the client and the server computers is called a(n) _____.

Question 48

A(n) _____ is any computer used to provide files or make programs available to other computers connected to it through a network.

Question 49

In the context of Web server performance evaluation, _____ is testing that is used to compare the performance of hardware and software.

A) response timing
B) monitoring
C) benchmarking
D) filtering

Question 50

A content-filtering technique where the software that performs the filtering task is placed on individual users' computers is called _____.

A) server-side scripting
B) client-side scripting
C) client-level filtering
D) server-level filtering

Question 51

_____ is a program that allows a person using one computer to access files and run programs on a second computer that is connected to the Internet.

A) Telnet
B) Ping
C) Finger
D) Tracert

Question 52

A _____ program sends data packets to every computer on the path between one computer and another and clocks the packets' round-trip times.

A) Telnet
B) Tracert
C) Ping
D) Finger

Question 53

Efforts to reduce the environmental impact of large computing installations are called _____ computing.

A) efficient
B) green
C) e-conserve
D) e-wise

Question 54

_____ programs calculate and display the number of hops between computers and the time it takes to traverse the entire one-way path between machines.

A) Route-tracing
B) Indexing
C) Benchmarking
D) Link checker

Question 55

The computer on which a company runs its accounting and inventory management software is sometimes called a(n) _____.

Question 56

The server computer on which database management software runs is often called a(n) _____.

Question 57

The message that a Web client sends to request a file or files from a Web server is called a(n) _____.

Question 58

_____ architectures are used in LANs, WANs, and the Web.

Question 59

The practice of launching a return attack by sending e-mail messages back to a computer that originated a suspected spam is referred to as _____.

Question 60

_____ is a development framework  used to create interactive Web sites that look like applications running in a Web  browser.

Question 61

Visitor information captured by Web servers are placed into a Web _____ for data analysis.

Question 62

_____ are messages rejected by a white list spam filter that should not have been rejected.

Question 63

_____ is a statistical technique in which additional knowledge is used to revise earlier estimates of probabilities.

Question 64

_____ is the amount of time a server requires to process one HTTP request.

Question 65

A(n) _____ utility program examines each page on a Web site and reports any URLs that no longer exist.

Question 66

A large collection of servers is called a(n) _____.

Question 67

A(n) _____ returns information describing a server's attributes.

Question 68

In the context of designing a large Website's operations, in a(n) _____ , a few very large and fast computers are used.

Question 69

A(n) _____ is a piece of network hardware that monitors the workloads of servers attached to it and assigns incoming Web traffic to the server that has the most available capacity at that instant in time.

Question 70

_____ is the UNIX-based operating system of Oracle.

Question 71

_____ tasks include running programs and allocating computer resources such as memory and disk space to programs.

Question 72

Explain the roles of indexing and searching utility programs.

Question 73

The ability of a network to connect devices that use different operating systems is called _____.

Question 74

Explain the difference between a dynamic Web page and a static Web page.

Question 75

Explain the factors required to measure a server's Web page delivery capability.

Question 76

The various ways that servers can be connected to each other and to related hardware, such as routers and switches, are called _____.

Question 77

_____ comes bundled with current versions of Microsoft Windows Server operating systems and is used on many corporate intranets because many companies have adopted Microsoft products as their standard products.

Question 78

A popular server configuration which involves putting small server computers on a single computer board and then installing many of those boards into a rack-mounted frame. These servers-on-a-card are called _____.

Question 79

Describe the major components of a typical request message from a client to a server.

Question 80

Describe some of the drawbacks of e-mail.