December 1999
WW221 : WORLD WIDE WEB FUNDAMENTALS

QUESTION 1 (Compulsory)

Total Marks: 30 Marks

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for Question 1

(a)

What is the primary use of the Internet?

 

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(b)

Name the two types of technologies that have been developed for high speed Internet access via existing telephone connections.

 

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(c)

What are the four considerations one should consider when choosing a language to use when developing CGI applications?

 

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(d)

What is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)?Explain its purpose and role in the development of the Web.

 

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(e)

Why is HTML based on SGML?

 

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(f)

What is a firewall?

 

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(g)

What is validity checking?Why is it useful for validity checking to happen at the client side whenever possible?

 

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(h)

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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(i)

There are several errors in the following piece of HTML.Identify and explain two of them.

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