Web Development Quiz (B)

Date First Published: 27th October 2023

This is the second quiz about the web development subtopic. All 15 questions in this quiz are covered in the articles.

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Question 1

The correct answer is: c: Creating website designs

Website designs are not the final look and feel of a website. They are a blueprint, useful for thinking and communicating about the structure of the website that you are developing before any code is written. This is the second stage of the website.

Option D is incorrect as before coding a website from scratch or creating any designs, you will need to know exactly what it will be about and what type of website it will be.

Option B is incorrect as that is the third stage of the web development process.

Option A is incorrect as that is the final stage of the web development process.

Question 2

The correct answer is: c: A comments section that allows anyone to post comments at the bottom of the page.

User-generated content, also known as user-created content, or UGC, refers to any content that has been provided to a website by users rather than the owner of the website.

Question 3

The correct answer is: d: Backlinks

Backlinks are types of external links that point to the owner's site. These will not affect how fast webpages load in web browsers.

Options A, B, and C are all examples of factors affecting how fast webpages load in web browsers.

Question 4

The correct answer is: a: Webpages

Question 5

The correct answer is: b: They are prone to misinformation and vandalism.

Wikis are prone to misinformation and vandalism. Since they can be edited by anyone at any time, information that a wiki contains at a certain time could be outdated, a work-in progress, vandalism, or completely incorrect. This is why people need to be careful and check sources to ensure that the information is correct.

Question 6

The correct answer is: c: Individuals and organisations

A website, also known as a site, is a collection of publicly accessible, related webpages held together under one domain name that have been published and maintained by an individual or organisation and hosted on a single web server.

Question 7

The correct answer is: a: A functionality that allows visitors to filter search results based on the filtered classification of the items.

Faceted navigation, also known as faceted search, is a functionality that allows visitors to filter search results based on the faceted classification of the items. For example, on an ecommerce site, faceted navigation might be located in the sidebar and allow visitors to narrow down the search results by applying filters to the colours, sizes, prices, and sellers.

Question 8

The correct answer is: c: Since it creates a lot of webpages with almost identical content, it can lead to SEO issues.

Since it creates a lot of webpages with almost identical content, it can lead to SEO issues, such as duplicate content and a wasted crawl budget. It often leads to almost identical pages being indexed in the search results that do not fulfil search demand.

Question 9

The correct answer is: b: The web browser

JavaScript is a client-side scripting language processed by the web browser, not the web server.

Question 10

The correct answer is: c: JavaScript is isolated to the browser process and cannot read or write files on a hard drive.

Even though JavaScript that comes from an unknown source can be malicious, JavaScript has strong security measures in place that were implemented by Sun Microsystems, such as secure sandboxing. This means that JavaScript is isolated to the browser process and cannot read or write files on a hard drive or inspect the computer hardware. However, it can generate cookie files used to store information.

Question 11

The correct answer is: a: True

PHP is a widely used server-side scripting language that is embedded in HTML pages and used in web development. PHP is often used to create dynamic content, interact with databases, and perform calculations.

Question 12

The correct answer is: d: It is flexible and can be combined with a lot of other programming and markup languages.

Question 13

The correct answer is: d: Hostinger

Hostinger is not an example of a CMS. It is a web hosting provider.

Options A, B, and C are all examples of a CMS.

Question 14

The correct answer is: b: False

Most websites, especially larger ones, cannot display all of their content on the homepage as doing so would make the page look cluttered and unorganised. In addition, most users don’t like having to scroll down a page for a long time to find the information that they are looking for and the lack of navigation features and subpages will lead to some visitors getting confused by this type of design. Due to this, single-page websites cannot completely replace traditional websites and they are not suitable for most organisations.

Question 15

The correct answer is: b: The process of completely replacing the existing website with a better and newer version.

A website relaunch is a complete revamp of a website. This basically replaces the existing website with a better and newer version and includes changing the technical properties of a website, such as the URL structure, CMS, server setup as well as the design, content, and features. A website relaunch is not to be confused with a website redesign, which only focuses on visual changes or upgrades to the design of a website. A website redesign does not change any technical properties, such as the URL structure, CMS, and server setup.