Exam 8: Web Server Hardware and Software

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

____________________ servers are made up of small server computers on a single computer board with many of those boards installed into a rack-mounted frame.

____ sends data packets to every computer on the path between one computer and another and clocks the packet's round-trip times.

Explain the difference between a dynamic Web page and a static Web page.

____________________ revision is a statistical technique in which additional knowledge is used to revise earlier estimates of probabilities.

Which of the following continually conducts surveys to tally the number of Web sites in existence and measure the relative popularity of Internet Web server software?

Describe the difference between throughput and response time.

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

A(n)____________________, when clicked, displays an error message rather than a Web page.

A(n)____ is a program that attaches itself to another program and can cause damage when the host program is activated.

When people use their Internet connections to become part of the Web, their computers become Web client computers on a worldwide client/server network.

The Internet connects many different types of computers running different types of operating system software.

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

A transaction server is a computer that is connected to the Internet and is used to download Web pages.

The three main elements of a Web server are the hardware, operating system software, and client software.

A centralized architecture spreads risk over a large number of servers.

The computers that perform the server function usually have more memory and larger, faster disk drives than the client computers they serve.

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

In ____________________ scripting, software operates on the Web client (the browser)to change what is displayed on the Web page in response to a user's actions.

A response ____ indicates the HTTP version used by the server, the status of the response, and an explanation of the status information.