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1. This is something you use to manage the content of a Web site.
a. Webmaster
b. slave
c. Content
Scrambling System
d. content
management system
2. This service copies the pages of a Web site to geographically dispersed servers so
that when a page is requested, content is sent to the user from the closest server, enabling faster
delivery.
a. distributed
computing
b. content
delivery
c. fast packet
technology
d. multicast
3. This is dividing the amount of work that a computer has to do between two or more
computers so that more work gets done in the same amount of time and end users get served
faster.
a. clustering
b. routing
c. load
balancing
d. peering
4. On a Web site, this is a technique you might use to move visitors to a new Web page
when a URL has been changed.
a. Uniform
Resource Identifier
b. common
gateway interface
c. redirection
d. Active Server
Page
5. This is a visual model of a Web site's content that allows the user to navigate
through the site to find the information they are looking for.
a. site
map
b. directory
c. image
d. model-view-controller
6. This is a hypertext link to a page on a Web site, other than its home page.
a. anchor
b. deep
link
c. uplink
d. backlink
7. This is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all
the information on the World Wide Web.
a. text
editor
b. sprite
c. browser
d. sequencer
8. This is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web
sites.
a. colocation
b. hosting
c. infomediary
d. vertical
portal
9. This is a Web site that allows registered users to upload files and save favorite
bookmarks so that they can be accessed at any time from any computer on the Internet.
a. bookmark
portal
b. roundtripping
c. jump
page
d. blog
10. This is a place to store data temporarily. The files you automatically request by
looking at a Web page are stored on your hard disk in this kind of subdirectory.
a. RAM
b. ROM
c. cache
d. capacitor
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#6: Servers
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#7: Protocols
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#8: Database Basics
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#9: Wireless
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#13: AS/400
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#14: Peripherals
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#15: HP
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#16: Web Management Basics
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#17: DSL
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#18: Do you know me? You should!
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#20: Cryptography
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This was first published in July 2002