Exam 8: Web Server Hardware and Software

The entity body of a response message returns the HTML page requested by the client machine.

FreeBSD is a(n) _____-based operating system.

The rejected e-mails in a white list spam filter are deleted.

_____ is a program that allows a person using one computer to access files and run programs on a second computer that is connected to the Internet.

_____ is the number of HTTP requests that a particular hardware and software combination can process in a unit of time.

Computers that are connected to the Internet and make some of their contents publicly available using the HTTP protocol are called Web servers.

With remote server administration software, a Web site administrator can control a Web site from any Internet-connected computer.

The various ways that servers can be connected to each other and to related hardware, such as routers and switches, are called _____.

Platform neutrality was a critical factor in the rapid spread and widespread acceptance of the Web.

A(n) _____ is a piece of network hardware that monitors the workloads of servers attached to it and assigns incoming Web traffic to the server that has the most available capacity at that instant in time.

_____ Server has dominated the Web since 1996 because it is free and performs very efficiently.

_____ comes bundled with current versions of Microsoft Windows Server operating systems and is used on many corporate intranets because many companies have adopted Microsoft products as their standard products.

_____ programs calculate and display the number of hops between computers and the time it takes to traverse the entire one-way path between machines.

Customized pages provided by Web servers in response to specific queries from site visitors are called _____.

In _____, a program running on a Web server creates a Web page in response to a request for specific information from a Web client.

A(n) _____ indicates the HTTP version used by the server, the status of the response, and an explanation of the status information.

The server computer on which database management software runs is often called a(n) _____.

The computer on which a company runs its accounting and inventory management software is sometimes called a(n) _____.

The message that a Web client sends to request a file or files from a Web server is called a(n) _____.

_____ continually conducts surveys to tally the number of Web sites in existence and track which Web server software each uses.