Web 2 & 3 Practice Vocabulary Test 1

The language of the web.

Indicates the location of a particular file or directory by outlining the route or "path" from the host name (if the file resides on a remote server) through the directory structure to the desired file name or directory name.

Refers to the process by which programming data input is broken into smaller, more distinct chunks of information that can be more easily be interpreted and acted upon.

Occurs when a user (or programmer) has put words in an order that a program does not understand.

Is the process by which a web client requests specific information from a web server, based on a character string that is passed along. Typcially takes the form of a database search for a particular keyword or phrase.

More efficient and strict version of HTML.

Is a color model commonly used to display color in video systems, film recorders, and computer monitors. Is the most common color mode for viewing and working with digital images on a screen.

A piece of hardware or software that connects two or more networks. Functions as a sorter and interpreter as it looks at addresses and passes bits of information to their proper destinations..

One of many services on the Internet

A type of program that consists of a set of instructions for another application or utility to use.

Refers to a sequence of characters, words, or other elements that are connected to each other in some way to search and locate or retrieve a specific piece of information contained in a database or a set of documents.

Refers to the practice of blindly posting commercial messages or advertisements to a large number of unrelated and uninterested newsgroups, and bulk e-mailing unsolicited commercial messages.

When you place files on a UNIX (multitasking, timesharing operating system) system, you can assign the files various levels of permission, specifying who can access them, and what type of access they can have.

A program that displays information about someone on the Internet.

An HTML page on the Internet

Refers to hardware or software that bridges the gap between two otherwise incompatible applications or networks so that data can be transferred among different computers.

An application that was developed at the University of Minnesota to help organize files on the Internet.

Is a list of links, compiled and maintained by your web browser, to interesting, useful or important URLs that you can click on to go directly to a website.

A graphic divided into regions or "hotspots.", that when clicked, accesses a web page that is linked to a particular region.

A colletion of linked pages.

A standard system for identifying the type of data contained in a file based on its extension.

Standard style language for the web. The rules allow you to control the design and layout of your pages.

An FTP Server that provides copies of the same files as another server.

Refers to the simultaneous use of more than one type of media such as text with sound, moving or still images with music, and so on.

Text or image that when clicked takes the user to another page.

Allow users to find their way around a website or multimedia presentation.

A form of online etiquette

Newsgroup is an electronic discussion group consisting of collections of related postings (also called articles) on a particular topic that are posted to a news server which then distributes them to other participating servers.

Used to view Web pages.

This appears when the alternate pointer button is pressed and is specific to the window in which the pointer cursor is position; POP-UP menu.

Data transfer that continues beyond the boundary of a buffer.

A disk file that provides non-volatile storage of virtual pages swapped out from main memory, in a virtual-memory system.

Gives direction for the Web site, shows the flow of the website.

A simple electronic connector consisting of a thin, stiff, bare wire intended to fit into a corresponding socket.

GUI to specify or indicate by placing the cursor over: - and click.

This appears when a user input triggers its appearance.

An internal system check that is carried out by a PC immediately after the power is turned on.

A wire or other conductor within a computer that supplies substantial operating power to certain computer components.

To change the size of a picture or other graphic without changing any other characteristics.

Before creating a Web site a plan shoud be created.

A program that displays a continuously changing image on the monitor of a computer that is not in use, in order to avoid damaging the monitor resulting from display of a single static image over a long period.

Hard disk that sotres work in progress.

A software construct that stores information temporarily with automatic allocation of space, usually in last-in first-out order.

A disk file used to hold programs or processes temporarily removed from main memory by a swap operation.