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Internet and Web

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The Internet and Web encompass global networks, web portals, browsers, and online communication tools. This hub provides questions on basic internet concepts, email structures, and web terminology. Strong knowledge here is vital for scoring well in computer awareness sections.

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Internet and Web Questions

Multiple choice technology security
  1. Track a user's e-mail

  2. Add statefulness to the originally stateless HTTP

  3. Disclose a user's identity

  4. Add history information to the originally stateless HTTP

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

HTTP is inherently stateless, meaning each request is processed independently without memory of previous interactions. Cookies solve this by storing small pieces of data on the client side that are sent back with subsequent requests, allowing the server to maintain session state and track user activity across multiple page views. This enables features like shopping carts, login persistence, and personalized content.

Multiple choice technology security
  1. Evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser

  2. Evercookie is a cookie anonymysing tool

  3. Evercookie is a FireFox Plugin

  4. Evercookie is a cookie pollution tool

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

An Evercookie is a JavaScript-based API that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. It achieves this by storing cookie data in several redundant storage mechanisms (such as Local Storage, IndexedDB, Flash Cookies, Silverlight, and browser cache) and recreating deleted cookies from surviving copies.

Multiple choice
  1. Explicit Intent

  2. Implicit Intent

  3. Special Intent

  4. None of above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Using Intent.ACTION_VIEW with a URI creates an Implicit Intent because you're specifying an action and data, but not the exact component to handle it. Android resolves the component at runtime based on the registered intent filters. Explicit intents specify the component class directly (new Intent(context, MyClass.class)).

Multiple choice
  1. Service

  2. Intents

  3. Content Provider

  4. Activity

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Content Providers are the Android component designed specifically for sharing structured data between applications. Services run background operations, Intents enable messaging between components, and Activities display UI - none of these are primarily for data sharing across apps.

Multiple choice
  1. has not been used for the longest time in the past

  2. will not be used for the longest time in the future

  3. has been used least number of times

  4. has been used most number of times

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Optimal page replacement algorithm assumes that the pages that will come in future are already known, so replacement of the page which will not be used in future occurs.

Multiple choice
  1. <a url = "http:www.company.com"> company.com </a>

  2. <a> http://www.company.com </a>

  3. <a href = “http://www.company.com&lt;span class="MsoHyperlink">”> Company </a>

  4. <a name = http://www.company.com? Company.com<(a)>

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

<a href = http://www.company.com> company </a> the format is only correct to create a hyperlink. Because we use <a href = “Link”> link name</a> URL to be displayed on browser. Standard tag to make the text as hyperlink, whereas < a url > and <a> and <a name> are invalid tags.

Multiple choice
  1. It gives extra path information that follows the name of the CGI program on the URL.

  2. It gives extra path information that follows the name of the CGI program.

  3. It gives the username as defined in the fRFC 931.

  4. It is the virtual path to the CGI program being executed.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

In CGI programming, PATH_INFO is the extra path information that follows the script name in a URL. For example, in '/cgi-bin/script.py/extra/path', the '/extra/path' portion is the PATH_INFO data available to the CGI program.

Multiple choice
  1. <HTML>

  2. <form>

  3. <start>

  4. <title>

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

HTML documents must begin with the tag as the root element that contains all other elements. The tag is for creating forms, is not a valid HTML tag, and sets the page title but appears inside , not at the document start.