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Lecture 20
Exam Information and
Revision
Boriana Koleva
Room: C54
Email: [email protected]
Overview
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Overview of Course Content
Exam details
Revision Multiple Choice Questions
Review of a past exam paper
Course Content
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Web enabling infrastructure
• Networking basics
• transmission media
• local communication (encoding data + LANs)
• long distance comms (modulation + modems)
• TCP/IP protocols
• Protocol design
• Overview of TCP/IP
• IP addresses and domain names
• Client server paradigm, Web browsers and
servers, URLs, MIME types, HTTP protocol
Course Content
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Mark-up languages
• HTML
• XML
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Syntax
Basic text markup
Images
Hypertext links
Lists
Tables
Forms
HTML 5 features
Syntax
Document Type Definitions
Namespaces
Displaying XML documents
XML Processors
Course Content
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Web document presentation
• CSS
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Levels of style sheets
Selector forms
Property value forms
Examples of properties
• Web design
• Website design (information structure + navigation)
• Webpage design (text, graphics, audio, video)
• What NOT to do
• Top 10 Mistakes of Web Design
• Web pages that suck
• Web Accessibility
Course Content
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Client side scripting
• JavaScript
• Syntax
• Dynamic HTML
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Server side scripting
• Overview of SSI, CGI Perl, Java Servlets, JSP,
ASP.NET
• PHP in more detail
• Database access with PHP
Coursework
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25% of final mark
Marks and feedback sheet will be
available from the school office
• I will email when marks are ready
• Certainly available by first day of new term
(3 May)
Exam
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2 hours
Answer 3 out of 5 questions
• Each of these questions focuses on a
particular topic
• Web enabling infrastructure
• Mark-up languages
• Web document presentation
• Client side scripting
• Server side scripting
Exam
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Material from all lectures examinable
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There will be questions only on material we
have covered in lectures
• However in the lecture notes there may be just
a few bullets or a diagram
• If you have not been taking notes it may be
necessary to consult the suggested further
reading in order to understand the topic better
and be able to provide full answers
Past Exam Papers
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Available from the portal
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use the Library Tab to search for Exam Papers
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
Sample exam paper
http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/~bnk/Teaching/WPS/G51W
PS0607Sample.pdf
(created when module first established)
Which of the following statements is true
about a network laid out using a bus topology?
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The network consists of a
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A computer on the network
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any other computer on the
network
If one computer on the
network fails then the entire
network fails
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CSMA/CD is used to sense
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CSMA/CD prevents
computers from interrupting
ongoing transmissions
CSMA/CD is used to detect
packet collisions
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network where all
computers are identified
via their MAC address
A large network of
computers linked via pointto-point connections
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What is an IP number?
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A unique number that
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TCP/IP stack
A unique number built into
each Ethernet subsystem
by the manufacturer
A name that consists of a
sequence of alphanumeric
segments, separated by
period and following a
hierarchical convention
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Which of the following is not a valid
URL format?
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A. mailto:[email protected]
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How will this fragment of HTML be
displayed by a web browser?
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Which of the following statements is not
true about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?
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A CSS file linked to a HTML
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control the appearance of only
that document and no others
CSS is a W3C recommendation,
and is now very widely used
CSS may be embedded into
HTML using the <STYLE> tag or
stored in a separate file
CSS is a style language
developed for HTML that can also
be used with XML
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What will be the effect of the following
CSS rule:
td.red {color: red}
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appear in red font
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whose class has been set
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font
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Which of the following statements
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typed.
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issue HTTP requests and
load other pages.
E. JavaScript scripts require
the Java Virtual Machine
to be loaded.
One of the differences between Java and JavaScript is
that Java is said to be a “strongly typed” language
whereas JavaScript is “loosely typed”. Which of the
following is the most appropriate description of this
distinction?
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global), whereas in Java scoping is
tightly controlled
In Java the data type of variables must
always be specified, whereas in
JavaScript data types are not declared,
even when variables are
In JavaScript it is never necessary to
declare variables before they are used,
whereas in Java this is essential
In Java variables are a property of a
class, whereas in JavaScript they are a
property of a document
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Given the following HTML:
<form name = "myForm" action = "">
<input type = "button" name = “onButton”
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Which of the following is not a correct way to address
the button in JavaScript?
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Which of the following statements
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A. PHP is interpreted
B. PHP scripts are
embedded in XHTML
documents
C. The web browser must
support the PHP system
in order to display the
result of PHP scripts
D. PHP is dynamically
typed
Which of the following is the correct way to
define a PHP function with name “sum” that
should take and add together 2 integer
parameters named “a” and “b”
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function
sum($a,
$b)
function
sum(a, b)
A. sum($a, $b)
B. sum(int a, int b)
C. function sum (int a,
int b)
D. function sum($a, $b)
E. function sum(a, b)
sum($a,
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sum(int a, function
int b)
sum (int a,
int b)
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A small information object
consisting of a name and a
textual value stored on the
client
A small information object
consisting of a name and a
textual value stored on the
server
A file containing information
about clients stored on the
server
A series of requests between
a client and a server
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Which of the following statements
is not true about XML?
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A. XML is a metalanguage
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the WWW, but is also
applicable in many other
areas