Chapter 2

Front 1

A server farm is a group of computers that are linked together so they act as a one computer.

Back 1

True

Front 2

An N-tiered architecture:

Back 2

is generally more "scalable" than a three-tiered architecture

Front 3

______________, or the algorithms or business logic programmed into the application, can be simple or complex depending on the application.

Back 3

application logic

Front 4

The protocol that makes it possible for a Macintosh web browser to be able to retrieve a Web page from a Microsoft Web server is called _____________________.

Back 4

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Front 5

Marc Andreessen led a team that developed the first graphical Web browser, which was called:

Back 5

Mosaic

Front 6

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)

Back 6

permits an e-mail message to remain stored on the mail server even after they have been read by a client computer

Front 7

Cloud computing is now available on the client side (i.e. the desktop).

Back 7

True

Front 8

Host-based and client-based networks are similar in that the client computer performs most of the work.

Back 8

False

Front 9

With the two-tier client-server architecture, the server is responsible for the ________ logic.

Back 9

data access

Front 10

One of the most frequently used Telnet applications is

Back 10

PuTTY

Front 11

A ________ is a group of computers linked together so that they act as one computer.

Back 11

server farm

Front 12

An application program function is __________, or the processing required to access data.

Back 12

data access logic

Front 13

In a host-based system with a mainframe, upgrades to the host are _____________.

Back 13

Lumpy

Front 14

In a client-server network, _________ gets software from different vendors to work together.

Back 14

middleware

Front 15

____________ is not an important middleware standard.

Back 15

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

Front 16

The standard protocol for communication between a Web browser and a Web server is the web protocol.

Back 16

False

Front 17

_________ is an application program function that deals with storing and retrieving data.

Back 17

data storage

Front 18

As the demand for more and more network applications grow; host-based computing becomes the best solution.

Back 18

False

Front 19

The earliest data communications networks were client-server networks.

Back 19

False

Front 20

Which of the following is not a general function by any application program?

Back 20

application access storage

Front 21

In the three tier architecture the software on the client computer is responsible for____________.

Back 21

presentation

Front 22

The World Wide Web was conceived at University of Utah as part of the development of the Internet.

Back 22

False

Front 23

Scalability refers to the ability to increase or decrease the capacity of the computing infrastructure in response to changing capacity needs.

Back 23

True

Front 24

To get a page from the Web, a user must type in a URL, which stands for:

Back 24

Uniform Resource Locator

Front 25

With a client-based network, one fundamental problem is that:

Back 25

all data on the server must travel to the client for processing

Front 26

One disadvantage of the ____________ architecture is that places a greater load on the network.

Back 26

n-tier

Front 27

The idea for a special hypertext network, called the World Wide Web, was conceived of by:

Back 27

Tim Berners-Lee at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in 1989

Front 28

A request header for an HTTP request starts with a command, such as GET, and ends with the HTTP version number that the browser understands.

Back 28

False

Front 29

A "thin client" approach places most of the application logic on the client.

Back 29

False

Front 30

Which of the following is not a user agent package?

Back 30

Microsoft Word

Front 31

Web-based e-mail like Hotmail is an example of three-tier client-server architecture that provides access to e-mail messages.

Back 31

True

Front 32

With the "thin client" architecture, when an application changes, only the _________ with the application logic needs to be updated.

Back 32

server

Front 33

________ is the presentation of information to the user and the acceptance of the user's commands.

Back 33

presentation logic

Front 34

The four general functions of any application program are: data storage, data access logic, application logic and presentation logic.

Back 34

True

Front 35

The acronym, MIME, refers to:

Back 35

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

Front 36

The ________________ cloud deployment model provides the highest levels of control, privacy and security.

Back 36

private

Front 37

The two functions of middleware are to: 1) provide a standard way of communicating that can translate between software from different vendors, and 2) manage the message transfer between clients and servers so that clients do not need to 'know' which server contains the application's data.

Back 37

True

Front 38

With the two-tier client-server architecture, the server is responsible for the ________ logic.

Back 38

data access

Front 39

There are optional and required parts of an HTTP request. They are:

Back 39

request line, request header, request body

Front 40

To use the Web, each client computer requires a data link layer software package called a Web browser.

Back 40

False

Front 41

A(n) __________ is the way in which the functions of the application layer software are spread among the clients and servers in the network.

Back 41

application architecture

Front 42

Cloud computing is now available on the client side (i.e. the desktop).

Back 42

True