Web pages and Web apps

What is a dynamic website?

• A website that has interactive elements

• A website that has no form of interactivity

• A website that is very large

What web development languages are most websites written in?

• High level languages like C++ and Java

• HTML and CSS with some scripting languages like JavaScript and PHP

• Pseudo code

What does a cascading style sheet (CSS) do?

• It is where the different formatting choices are stored for the website and is used to edit the appearance of the website

• It creates, manages and searches databases

• It creates the interactive elements within a webpage

What is a mashup?

• Two or more websites that have been joined together

• A website or application which mixes code from different external sources

• A website that isn't working properly

What are cookies?

• Viruses that are downloaded onto your computer

• Programs that are stored on your computer that tell a website if you have been to that site before

• Text files that are stored on your computer that tell a website if you have been to that site before

What identifies the kind of device that is accessing the website?

• The server

• A protocol

• The web browser

What is the difference between the client-side scripts and the Server-Style Scripts?

• Client-side scripts are programs that are processed by the web browser and server-style scripts are processed by the web server

• Client-side scripts are programs that are processed by the web server and server-style scripts are processed by the web browser

• Client-side scripts process the static parts of the web site and server-style scripts process the dynamic parts of the web site

How do search engines rank the website result they receive?

• Websites appear higher up a list of results purely based on how many hits have occurred on that website altogether, since it was created

• Websites appear higher up a list of search results because they have paid the web browser to be ranked higher

• Websites appear higher up a list of results because they are judged to be more important by the search algorithm. This is measured by the popularity of a site and how many connections it has with other websites

What is cloud computing?

• Cloud computing is storing and using services online, rather than storing them locally on a device such as a hard drive

• Cloud computing is accessing your home computer over the internet

• Cloud computing is accessing stored data online using only mobile devices

Why is cloud computing advantageous?

• You can store and back-up as much data as you want for free

• Storing your data online is much more secure than storing it on your computer

• Data backed up in the cloud with a reliable provider can be more reliable than storing your information on a hard drive or USB flash memory stick