Exam 8: Web Server Hardware and Software

A drawback of decentralized architecture is that if one of the few servers becomes inoperable, a large portion of the site's capacity is lost.

_____ is a development framework  used to create interactive Web sites that look like applications running in a Web  browser.

One element that affects overall server performance is the server hardware.

_____ architectures are used in LANs, WANs, and the Web.

Software applications that generate information are located in the first tier of n-tier architectures.

_____ are messages rejected by a white list spam filter that should not have been rejected.

Few large centralized sites use load-balancing systems, at an additional expense, to assign the workload efficiently.

A two-tier client/server architecture is sufficient for delivering dynamic content and processing transactions.

A _____ program sends data packets to every computer on the path between one computer and another and clocks the packets' round-trip times.

A(n) _____ is any computer used to provide files or make programs available to other computers connected to it through a network.

The Web client/server model in which messages are created and read only by the client and the server computers is called a(n) _____.

In _____, software operates on the browser to change what is displayed on the Web page in response to a user's actions.

The two most commonly used Web server programs are Apache HTTP Server and Microsoft Internet Information Server, IIS.

The ability of a network to connect devices that use different operating systems is called _____.

A _____, when clicked, displays an error message rather than a Web page.

The practice of launching a return attack by sending e-mail messages back to a computer that originated a suspected spam is referred to as _____.

A _____ spam filter examines From addresses and compares them to a list of known good sender addresses.

Explain the factors required to measure a server's Web page delivery capability.

The smaller servers used in the decentralized architecture are more expensive than the large servers used in the centralized approach.

In the context of Web server performance evaluation, _____ is testing that is used to compare the performance of hardware and software.