Can You Pass This Hardest HTML Competency Quiz?

1. "Safari" is...

A web technology for dynamically retrieving XML feeds

A web browser on the Macintosh platform

A popular tool for determining search engine page rank

A browser plug-in for managing your web history

2. Which of the following acronyms is not connected to web technology?

CSS

DOM

XML

PTS

FTP

3. If you wanted all of your paragraphs to have an indented first line, what would be the most efficient way to do this?

Add the code &nsbp;&nsbp;&nsbp;&nsbp; after the start of each tag

Add the code style="text-spacing:20px;" to each tag

Add the code style="text-indent:2em;" to the page's style sheet

Modify .htaccess to rewrite tags

4. All elements are identified by their __________ and are marked up using either start tags and end tags or self-closing tags

Attribute name

Tag name

Class name

None of the mentioned

5. The World Wide Web's markup language has always been HTML.e?

True

False

6. What does the robots.txt file do?

Gives instructions to search engine spiders

Controls running Javascript

Configures web counters and stats tracking

Tells user's web browser what plug-ins may be used

7. Which element represents a control for generating a public-private key pair?

Ins

Keygen

Key

Command

8. Which is NOT a valid limitation of a Flash navigation bar?

Inaccessible to people without Flash

Increases page load times

Flash is incompatible with newer versions of Internet Explorer

Causes older computers to run more slowly

9. How do you include a unique icon for a webpage to appear in a user's bookmarks?

Define "site-icon: url(icon.jpg)" in a site stylesheet

Use Javascript to add the icon to the DOM (document.siteicon)

Use the tag in thesection of a page

Place a "favicon.ico" file in the root directory of the webserver

10. What is wrong with the following snippet of Javascript code?

obj = document.getElementById("DPC_MONTH_NAMES");
if (obj) eval ("this.Months = " & obj.value);

There should be curly braces after if (obj)

The & should be a +

The = in the first line should be ==

The semicolons at the end of each line should be removed

11. The HTML code: Alpha ... would produce what result?

Prints "Alpha" to the screen

Runs the "Alpha" subroutine

Renders a large, underlined header reading "Alpha"

It would produce nothing; it is invalid HTML

12. Which of the following is not a real web browser?

Internet Explorer 9

Opera

Lynx

Firefox 2.0

Camino