Intertechnology And Web Design Question Paper
Intertechnology And Web Design
Course:Diploma In Business Management
Institution: Kca University question papers
Exam Year:2010
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any THREE questions
Question one
a. Define the following terms
i. Internet
ii. Web spider
iii. Search engine
iv. World wide web
v. Electronic commerce (5 Marks)
b. Differentiate between intranet and extranet (2 Marks)
c. Internet is a client - server architecture. Using illustration explain a three tier architecture and
how it is applied to internet applications (6 Marks)
d.What is hypermedia (1 Mark)
e. Briefly discuss the following protocols and how they are used in the internet
i. HTTP
ii.FTP (4 Marks)
f. What is the advantage of using the internet over building your own dedicated infrastructure
g. Explain the role of Universal Resource Locator – URL on the internet (2 Marks)
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Question two
a.What is a web browser (1 Mark)
b. Give four common examples of web browser that are used to access the web pages on the
internet (4 Marks)
c. What is a client side scripting language (1 Mark)
d. Give two examples for both the client side and server side scripting languages (4 Marks)
e.What is a website (2 Marks)
i Distinguish between a web service and a web server (4 Marks)
ii. List two types of web server that are commonly used to host websites (2 Marks)
f. Explain the meaning a of bulletin board (2 Marks)
Question three
a. Distinguish between HTML and XML (2 Marks)
b. The HTML document consists of the following tags, HEAD and BODY. Explain the roles of
these tags in an HTML document (2 Marks)
c. Study the table below
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Mark Range Grade Comment
70-100 A Excellent
60-69 B Good, …
Write HTML codes that can be used to create the table above (6 Marks)
d. Explain three types of lists using appropriate HTML tags (6 Marks)
e. Explain the functions of the following HTML tags
Question four
a. What is a element (2 Marks)
b.What is web hosting (1 Mark)
c. What is a domain name and how can one acquire a domain name (2 Marks)
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d. shopping for an Internet Service Provider ISP can be confusing experience, as no two are
exactly a like. Explain five features you should consider while shopping for an ISP(10 Marks)
e. How can you increase your page ranking on a search engine (3 Marks)
f. Define the Cascading Style Sheets CSS (2 Marks)
Question five
a. Write the following abbreviations in full as used in multimedia content of a website
i. GIF
ii. JPEG
iii.PNG (3 Marks)
b. Using any client side scripting language, write a code that can accept two values, value1 and
value2, sum them up and display the result on a message window. (5 Marks)
c.What is a variable (1 Mark)
d. What is the role of the Tag (1 Mark)
e. Assume that you are developing a web page on poultry farming. Assume further that you have
the following headings:
• Introduction to poultry farming: definition, kinds of poultry, uses of poultry, poultry
enterprises (egg, chicks, and broiler), and poultry economics.
• Systems of poultry keeping: classes of poultry systems (Extensive, semi-intensive, and
intensive).
Using information given above develop a web page that is easy to read (use lists and text
alignment). (8 Marks)
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