Web Languages & Tools
This mark-up language is responsible for displaying most content on the web.
What is HTML?
This is a set of rules that defines how data is formatted and transmitted across a network.
What is a protocol?
This defines the unique web address of a resource on the internet.
What is a URL?
This protocol is responsible for assigning and routing IP addresses.
What is IP?
This term describes the physical components of a computer system.
What is hardware?
This mark-up language is used to represent structured data, not visual layout.
What is XML?
This secure protocol uses encryption and digital certificates for authentication.
What is HTTPS?
This is the global system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the internet.
What is the World Wide Web?
These convert human-readable URLs into IP addresses.
What are DNS servers (Domain Name System servers)?
This is a named location in memory used to store data that can change during program execution.
What is a variable?
This scripting language is responsible for adding interactivity to webpages.
What is JavaScript?
This protocol transfers files between client and server over a network.
What is FTP?
These small chunks of data are transmitted over a network and reassembled on arrival.
What are packets?
This 3-step process is used to initiate a reliable connections between devices.
What is TCP handshake? (SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK)
This type of storage is non-volatile and used to store data long-term, such as on hard drives or SSDs.
What is secondary storage.
This file type controls the style and appearance of a webpage.
What is CSS?
These two protocols work together to ensure data is sent, routed, and received reliably.
What are TCP and IP?
This process reduces file size for faster transmission over networks.
What is compression?
This is a network where users download and upload files directly from each other.
What is a peer-to-peer (P2P) network?
This type of software converts source code into machine code all at once, before execution.
What is a compiler?
These are added to a URL after a question mark and are used to pass data to the server.
What are query parameters?
This protocol is responsible for retrieving and displaying web pages.
What is HTTP?
These small pieces of data are stored in the browser and sent with every HTTP request, often used for sessions and personalization.
What are cookies?
This hardware identifier is assigned to a network interface card and is used to distinguish devices on a local network; it does not change across networks like an IP address can.
What is a MAC address?
This logic gate outputs true only when both inputs are the same—either both true or both false.
What is an XNOR gate?