Free Web and Mobile Development MCQs with Answers

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  • A. physical signalling sublayer
  • B. physical data sublayer
  • C. physical address sublayer
  • D. none of these

Explanation: The physical signaling sublayer, or PLS, is the part of the physical layer that interfaces upward with the MAC sublayer.

Correct answer: physical signalling sublayer
  • A. HTTP protocol
  • B. FTP protocol
  • C. SMTP protocol
  • D. None of these

Explanation: HTTP is the application-layer protocol used to request and transfer web pages between a browser and a web server.

Correct answer: HTTP protocol
  • A. Diameter
  • B. Beam Width
  • C. Foot Print
  • D. Circular Polarisation

Explanation: A satellite beam's footprint is the geographical area on Earth's surface covered by that beam.

Correct answer: Foot Print
  • A. application layer
  • B. transport layer
  • C. network layer
  • D. none of the above

Explanation: HTTP operates at the application layer and carries web requests and responses between clients and servers.

Correct answer: application layer
  • A. @
  • B. *
  • C. &
  • D. #

Explanation: A DNS wildcard name uses an asterisk as its leftmost label, such as *.example.com, to match otherwise undefined subdomains.

Correct answer: *
  • A. Search Engines
  • B. Information Locators
  • C. Data Engines
  • D. Information Engines

Explanation: Search engines crawl, index, and retrieve web pages in response to user queries.

Correct answer: Search Engines
  • A. Mbps
  • B. Gbps
  • C. Cps
  • D. Kbps

Explanation: Gbps means gigabits per second, which is a higher rate than Mbps or Kbps; cps means characters per second and is not normally used for the…

Correct answer: Gbps
  • A. vector
  • B. bitmap
  • C. either vector or bitmap
  • D. neither vector nor bitmap

Explanation: Bitmap graphics store an image as a grid of individual pixels, which is how photographs and scanned images are normally represented.

Correct answer: bitmap
  • A. Euronet
  • B. Star network
  • C. a single server
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Euronet was a European packet-switched data network sponsored by the Commission of the European Economic Community and became operational…

Correct answer: Euronet
  • A. application to application communication
  • B. process to process communication
  • C. node to node communication
  • D. all of these

Explanation: The transport layer provides process-to-process communication by using mechanisms such as port numbers to identify applications.

Correct answer: process to process communication
  • A. Broadband
  • B. Slow
  • C. Remote
  • D. Wireless

Explanation: DSL provides an always-on high-speed internet connection and is therefore classified as broadband.

Correct answer: Broadband
  • A. multiple HTTP requests are sent on a single TCP connection without waiting for the corresponding responses
  • B. multiple HTTP requests can not be sent on a single TCP connection
  • C. multiple HTTP requests are sent in a queue on a single TCP connection
  • D. none of these

Explanation: HTTP pipelining allows several requests to travel over one TCP connection before the earlier responses arrive.

Correct answer: multiple HTTP requests are sent on a single TCP connection without waiting for the corresponding responses
  • A. hyperlink
  • B. url
  • C. plugin
  • D. none of the above

Explanation: A hyperlink is clickable text, an icon, or an image that points to another webpage or resource.

Correct answer: hyperlink
  • A. user datagram protocol
  • B. transmission control protocol
  • C. stream control transmission protocol
  • D. datagram congestion control protocol

Explanation: FTP uses TCP because file transfers require reliable, ordered delivery and connection management.

Correct answer: transmission control protocol
  • A. Home
  • B. Page up
  • C. Enter
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The Home key moves the cursor to the beginning of the current text line. Page Up moves upward by a screenful, while Enter starts a new line.

Correct answer: Home
  • A. Mouse, Keyboard and Monitor
  • B. Mouse, Keyboard and Printer
  • C. Mouse, Keyboard and Plotter
  • D. Mouse, Keyboard and Scanner

Explanation: A mouse, keyboard, and scanner all send data into the computer, so they are input devices.

Correct answer: Mouse, Keyboard and Scanner
  • A. Drag mouse while holding button down
  • B. Click mouse once
  • C. Roll mouse around
  • D. Roll and then click mouse

Explanation: Holding the mouse button and dragging across the word selects or highlights the text.

Correct answer: Drag mouse while holding button down
  • A. An ASCII code
  • B. A magnetic tape
  • C. An OCR scanner
  • D. A bar code

Explanation: A bar code stores information as a pattern of bars or lines that an optical reader can scan.

Correct answer: A bar code
  • A. media gateway protocol
  • B. dynamic host configuration protocol
  • C. resource reservation protocol
  • D. session initiation protocol

Explanation: RSVP is a resource-reservation signaling protocol associated with the network or transport-control functions, not an application-layer…

Correct answer: resource reservation protocol
  • A. is same every time whenever it displays
  • B. generates on demand by a program or a request from browser
  • C. both A and B
  • D. none of the above

Explanation: A dynamic page is generated or customized when requested, often using server-side code, database data, or browser input.

Correct answer: generates on demand by a program or a request from browser