Exam 8: Web Server Hardware and Software

____________________, a programming language produced by Sun, can be used to produce dynamic Web pages.

Finger is a program that runs on Windows operating systems.

Linux is an open-source operating system that is fast, efficient, and easy to install.

A virtual server is a feature that maintains more than one server on one machine.

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

On a Web site that is a collection of HTML pages, the content on the site can be changed by running interactive scripts.

Telnet programs use a set of rules called the ____________________.

Microsoft developed the first widely used server-side dynamic page-generation technology called ____.

A program called ____ tests the connectivity between two computers connected to the Internet.

All computers that are connected to the Internet and contain documents that their owners have made publicly available through their Internet connections are called ____________________.

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

____content is nonstatic information constructed in response to a Web client's request.

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

____-based machines are more popular, and many believe, more secure than Microsoft Web server products.

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

A(n)____ file is a file on a Web site that is not linked to any page.

A ____ is a Web page whose content is shaped by a program in response to user requests.

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

Microsoft server products are more widely used than UNIX-based systems, and many industry experts believe that Windows is a more secure operating system on which to run a Web server.

A computer must have a(n)____________________ to run programs.