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Click me A Change all tags to lowercase B Change all tags to lowercase and correct the tag C Correct the tag D Nothing Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com 560 Appendix A Practice Exam 40 In an Internet context, what does CSS stand for? A Commercially Secured Server B Controlled Server Side C Can’t Stand Stuff D Controlled State Server 41 If you want to play streaming video on your Web site, which technol- ogy would you implement? A RealPlayer B Flash C Acrobat D QuickTime VR 42 METHOD, ACTION, ENCTYPE, TARGET are all attributes of which HTML tag? A B C D 43 You want music to play in the background when a user views a par- ticular Web page Which is the best format for the music? A AVI B BGSound C RealPlayer D Embed Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com Practice Exam 561 44 You want to distribute the video recording of a shareholder meeting via your company’s intranet What technology would be best suited for the task? A QuickTime VR B RealPlayer C AVI D MP3 45 What is the most efficient data store for a training calendar? A ASCII text file B ISAM C Object-oriented D ODBC 46 What HTML component dictates to a browser exactly how text will appear? A Font B Tag C Image D Script 47 What does CGI stand for? A Common Group Interchange B Commercial Gateway Interplex C Common Gateway Interface D Commercial Group Interface Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com 562 Appendix A Practice Exam 48 What is the proper HTML tag to use to format a numbered list? A- C D
- 49 A client-side script is not working correctly What is the most likely cause? A The server can’t parse the script B The Web client doesn’t support the scripting C The HTTP connection has been lost D The OS doesn’t support scripting 50 A Web client is experiencing time-out errors when opening a socket to a Web server You are able to use other Internet services (FTP, e-mail, and so on), but you cannot browse to any Internet Web sites What is the most likely cause? A The Web browser is not functioning correctly B The proxy server is blocking the socket C The proxy server is down D TCP/IP is not installed on the client 51 Which technology provides an interactive 3-D environment? A Java B XML C VRML D HTML Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com 564 Appendix A Practice Exam Answers to Practice Exam A Site maps help people who don’t know what is on a site learn what they can there C Full-text searches help people narrow the list of documents to only those that meet the search criteria B Search engines should respect exclusions in the ROBOTS.TXT file C Network speed, browser version, and operating system all affect the ability of a client to use the Internet C When you send your credit card number to an online shopping site, the transmission is made secure by SSL in most cases B A log file might show lots of unsuccessful login attempts, which indicates a brute force attack on a password A Public-key encryption doesn’t require a private, secure exchange of keys the way private-key encryption does A You can test the browser version with JavaScript Alternately, you can use an older, more widely supported HTML specification D A community of users that will really benefit from seeing plug-in- enabled content will be happy to download the needed plug-in 10 B The emerging replacement standard is called Portable Network Graphics (PNG) 11 C Audio Visual Interleaved (AVI) files were developed for Windows 12 A RealPlayer and Windows Media Player are fighting it out in the streaming media market 13 B Tape archive files (with a TAR extension) are usually compressed with Gzip 14 A Copyleft prohibits for-profit sale of the software it protects 15 B The clickthrough rate is the percentage of people who view an ad and click through to its underlying Web site 16 B Because VPNs use the Internet for their long-distance communica- tions, the need for expensive dedicated lines disappears Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com Answers to Practice Exam 565 17 D None of the other answers will cause the symbol to display correctly 18 A EDI is best suited for distributing orders and invoices among com- panies Memos and reports are best suited for e-mail 19 D Bulk e-mail is irresponsible and tends to irritate customers Place- ment of a Web site address in a search engine and indiscriminate use of banner ads can be just as ineffective Banner ads placed in the correct category of a search engine can be very effective in increasing Web traffic 20 B Intranets are networks designed for use by a single company’s employees The other items listed will not serve in this capacity 21 C A Web page is considered to be protected by copyright as soon as it is available for viewing by the public even though a federal copyright may be pending The symbol must be displayed properly, indicating the year of publication and owner of the work 22 A You must choose a language or languages that can be read throughout the world 23 B The Internet is used for public access to information E-commerce Web sites are used to sell items, and intranets are used for distributing information within an organization 24 B Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a method of making encrypted trans- actions over the Internet Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is, in fact, a method of encryption, but it is too slow for use in online sales transactions The other two (HTML and HTTP) are not methods of protecting transactions 25 B Because you are using a portion of a copyrighted work, you are, in effect, making a derivative work and thus must have permission from the original copyright holder 26 D Colloquialisms are localized language derivatives You would have to live in a specific area to understand a colloquialism Thus, they may not make any sense to someone who doesn’t live in the area from which they originated, much less in a completely different country 27 A Both extranet and intranet sites have a limited audience by defini- tion Outernet is not a viable answer Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com 566 Appendix A Practice Exam 28 B Of the items listed, the best answer is VPN because PPTP is a pro- tocol most often used to provide VPN functions between a corporate office and a branch office 29 A To comply with U.S encryption export regulations, the highest level of encryption that can be exported is 40-bit encryption 30 C With meta tags, your site will be indexed in a search engine cor- rectly Although the other items are used in Web sites, they will not improve your site’s chances of appearing in search engine results 31 C Merchant systems are collections of server software for Web sites that allow credit card transactions 32 A Push technology allows users to subscribe to a content provider and receive regular updates of the content 33 B The DIR attribute in HTML is used for formatting a list as a directory listing 34 D TIFF is the only file format listed that cannot be displayed in a Web browser without a plug-in 35 B Of all the languages listed, Java is the only true programming lan- guage, and thus, it must be compiled before execution 36 D The “NAME=” attribute is used to identify a target frame for a hyperlink within a frame 37 B Of the image file formats listed, the GIF89a format is the only one that allows an image to be transparent 38 B Although QuickTime VR and VRML can be used for 3-D model- ing, Shockwave is the most efficient technology for providing 3-D effects within a presentation 39 C The majority of HTML tag sets (including ) must have a beginning tag () and an ending () tag In the example given, the / was missing from the ending tag 40 A Although all answers would technically expand the abbreviation, Commercially Secured Server is the correct answer 41 A Of the formats listed, RealPlayer is the only streaming video format Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com Answers to Practice Exam 567 42 C The attributes only correspond to the tag 43 D Although each of the formats can be used for playing sound, some require plug-ins Thus, the most efficient (and thus the best) format for playing background music would be to embed it in the HTML code 44 B Of all the technologies listed, RealPlayer would be the most effi- cient QuickTime VR and AVI are non-streaming formats and would take too long to download MP3 is an audio-only format 45 A Although all these data stores would work, an ASCII file would be the most practical and efficient because the training calendar doesn’t change often 46 B HTML tags are used for various purposes, but the most common is to format text for display in a Web browser 47 C Common Gateway Interface is the proper expansion of the abbre- viation CGI The others are not valid 48 D
- stands for ordered list, the HTML tag used for a numbered list
- stands for unordered list and is the HTML tag used for a list of items without numbers 49 B When client-side scripting doesn’t work, it’s usually the fault of the client (i.e., the Web browser) 50 B Because other Internet services are functional, it’s not C or D Because a specific Internet service is not functional, the most likely cause is B 51 C Of those listed, the only technology that provides a fully interactive 3-D environment is the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com ... VRML D HTML Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com 564 Appendix A Practice Exam Answers to Practice Exam A Site maps help people who don’t know what is on a site learn what they can... company’s inside sales staff is an example of an _ A Internet B Intranet C Extranet D Outernet Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com Practice Exam 555 21 When is it appropriate... Avoid streaming media Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA www.sybex.com 552 Appendix A Practice Exam Multimedia content that requires clients to have plug-ins works best _ A On public