Tutorial 1 Vocab – Flashcards
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A ____ is a structure that allows devices known as nodes or hosts to be linked together to share information and services.
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Network
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A _____ is a host that provides information or a service.
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Server
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A _____ is a network host that provides printing services to the network.
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Print Server
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A _____ is a host that provides storage space for saving and retrieving files.
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File Server
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A _____ is a computer or other device that receives a service.
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Client
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A _____ is a network in which several clients access information provided by one or more servers.
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client-server network
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A _____ is a network confined to a small geographic area, such as a building or apartment.
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local area network
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A _____ is a network that covers a wider area, such as several buildings or cities. They typically consist of two more interconnected LANs.
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wide area network
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The _____ is the largest WAN in existence, which incorporates an almost uncountable number of networks and hosts involving computers, mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, gaming systems, and television stations.
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Internet
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The _____ is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. The foundations were laid in 1989 by Timothy Berners-Lee, a Swedish nuclear researcher.
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World wide web
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_____ is a method of organization in which data sources are interconnected through a series of links or hyper links that users can activate to jump from one piece of information to another.
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Hypertext
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A _____ is a document on the world wide web. They are stored in web servers.
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Web Page
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A _____ retrieves the page from its web server and renders it on your computer or other device.
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Web browser
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_____ is the main markup language used to create web pages.
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Hypertext Markup Language
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A _____ is a language that describes the content and structure of a document by identifying, or tagging, different elements in the document.
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Markup Language
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_____ is the first popular markup language.
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Standard Generalized Markup Language
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The _____ started out as a group of web designers and programmers that created a set of standards or specifications for all browser manufacturers to follow.
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World wide web consortium
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_____ to be phased out, as in earlier features of the HTML language.
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Deprecated
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_____ is a compact offshoot of SGML and is used to define new markup languages, known as XML vocabularies.
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Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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______ are new markup languages defined by XML.
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XML vocabularies
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_____ Uses XML code along with the HTML programming language to develop webpages. Places restrictions on HTML so the code is cleaner. Not supported by all browsers
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Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
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A group of Web designers and browser manufacturers formed with the mission to develop a rival version to XHTML 2.0, called HTML5.
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Web Hypertext Application technology working group (WHATWG)
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A _____ is the place where the exact appearance of each page element is described.
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Style Sheet
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The _____ specifies the appearance of different HTML elements within a specific browser.
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Internal Style sheet
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_____ represent distinct items in the Web page, such as a paragraph, the page heading, or even the entire body of the page itself.
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Elements
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_____ are used to mark elements within an HTML file.
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tags
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If an element contains text or another element, it is marked using a _____.
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two sided tag set
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_____ and _____ are used in two-sided tag sets.
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opening tag and closing tag
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To be completely enclosed is to be _____.
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nested
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An element that does not enclose content is called an _____. It is marked with a one sided tag.
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Empty Element
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_____ specify the use, behavior, and in some cases the appearance of an element.
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Attributes
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_____ are blank spaces, tabs, and line breaks.
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White space
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A _____ contains all of the other elements within an HTML file.
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html element
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A _____ contains general information about the document like the title, or a list of keywords that would aid search engines in directing traffic towards it.
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head element
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A _____ contains all of the content that appears in the rendered web page.
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body element
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A _____ is used to indicate the type of markup language used in the document.
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Document type Declaration
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_____ are programs that examine document code to ensure that it meets all the syntax requirements of the specified language.
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Validators
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The process by which browsers use the presence or absence of a doctype to decide which mode they should use to render a document.
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doctype switching
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_____ is the mode of rendering a web page in accordance with the language's most current specifications.
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Standards Mode
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Mode in which the browser renders the Web page in accordance with practices followed in the 1990's.
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Quirks mode
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_______ are the elements that define the major sections of a Web Page.
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Structural Elements
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The ___ element is used to identify different page divisions in HTML 4.01 and XHTML.
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Div Element
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_____ elements are elements that contain content that is viewed as a distinct block within the Web Page.
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Grouping Elements
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_____ elements are grouping elements that contain the text of main headings on a web page. Used for new topics or for dividing the page into topical sections.
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Heading elements
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An HTML element used to group page headings.
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hgroup element
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_____ are used for items that follow some defined sequential order, such as lists ordered from smallest to greatest or from oldest to youngest.
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Ordered Lists
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A _____ is used to list items in a non specific order.
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Unordered list
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A _____ is a type of list which contains a list of terms, each followed by its description.
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Description list
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A style sheet that consists of code that defines formatting and layout settings of a Web page.
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Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
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A _____ is an external program.
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Script
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scripting language used to create interactive web pages with scrolling text, interactive quizzes and forms.
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JavaScript
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A _____ is an element which marks content within a grouping element.
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text level element
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A _____ consists of every character that a browser is capable of rendering. It is a collection of characters.
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Character Set
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The most commonly used character set on the web, it is a compressed version of unicode and is probably the default character set assumed by your browser.
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UTF-8
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the universal coding scheme that assigns a unique number to each character in the written languages of the world
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Unicode
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_____ associates each symbol from a character set with a numeric value called the numeric character reference.
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Character Encoding
