Exam 8: Web Server Hardware and Software

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

The challenge-response content-filtering technique uses a black list as the basis for a confirmation procedure.

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

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

A popular server configuration which involves putting small server computers on a single computer board and then installing many of those boards into a rack-mounted frame.These servers-on-a-card are called _____.

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

A black list spam filter cannot be implemented at the individual level.

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

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

A delay in transmission caused by the inability of the network to handle full load is called.

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

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

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

In dynamic page-generation technologies, server-side scripts and HTML-tagged text are used independently to create the dynamic Web page.

Linux is a closed-source operating system software.

Describe some of the drawbacks of e-mail.

The basic Web client/server model is a three-tier model.

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

Explain the roles of indexing and searching utility programs.

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