December
1999 QUESTION 1 (Compulsory) Total Marks: 30 Marks | Click here to
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What is the primary use of the Internet?
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Name the two types of technologies that have been developed for high speed Internet access via existing telephone connections.
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What are the four considerations one should consider when choosing a language to use when developing CGI applications?
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What is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)?Explain its purpose and role in the development of the Web.
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Why is HTML based on SGML?
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What is a firewall?
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What is validity checking?Why is it useful for validity checking to happen at the client side whenever possible?
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A Web page designer is producing material for her company ’s web site.She checks her work by viewing it with her usual web browser.Explain two reasons why this is not a sufficient approach,and two extra checks she could do.
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There are several errors in the following piece of HTML.Identify and explain two of them.
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