Question Bank

The mid-term exam questions will be picked from this question bank. As part of SAGE each student will be required to post 1-2 questions that they think should be on the mid-term from that week's topic.

I will compile and update the list every week.

Fall 2019

Week 1 - Anatomy of the Web

Explain the difference between the world wide web and the internet.
What are the differences between a URL and the HTTP protocol? What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?
How can you tell if the data in a web request is encrypted?
What is the different between HTTP and HTTPS?
Can applications other than browsers issue HTTP requests?
what is the different between a top-level-domain and a subdomain?

Week 2 - HTML

What is HyperText Markup Language?
Is HTML rendered by a web browser?
Do you have to include a closing slash?
What are the four main components used to build an HTML document?
What are three components are always required for a webpage?
What is HTML made up of?
What is a webpage made up of?
How do you format attributes on HTML elements?
What are tags in html?
Is this an acceptable line?
<head>
<title>The Right Answer
</head>
What elements should appear in an HTML file only once?
Who is responsible for managing the HTML protocol?
What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?
Explain the difference between the world wide web and the internet.
What are the components of an HTML page?
When should a developer add comments to code? What is the significance of these comments?
How does Hypertext Markup language code become a webpage display?
What are the three cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web?
Should tags and elements in HTML be written in uppercase, lowercase, or a mix of both?
Do all HTML tags have an end tag? Why?
What do the abbreviations HTTP and HTML stand for?
Can applications other than browsers issue HTTP requests?
What is the different between a top-level domain and a subdomain?
Can you include <u> in an h1 tag?
Why is it important to close your tags?
What does the <html> tag do?
What are the six main components of an HTML page?
What is the difference between HTML, CSS and JavaScript?
What is the difference between an element and a tag in an HTML page?
What is the purpose of an HTML browser?
What is the most common way to store and transmit HTML?
What does doctype represent?
What is the <dl> tag used for?
What are the three different technologies used to create web pages?
What does the <head> element include?
What does it mean when HTML is consistent across every browser?
What can potentially happen if more than one head, body, and html tag are included in a code?
What does HTML allow you to create?
What should be contained in the first line of every HTML5 document?
How do you write a comment in your html file but ensure it is not visible on the web page when itis displayed through the browser?
The visible part of the HTML document is contained in what element?
What 3 components make up a web page and what are each of their roles?

Week 3

What is an a tag and why is it important when coding?
Why is semantic structure important?
Is the <article/> element's role in the <section/&ft; element?
What is the semantic order of heading tags?
What is the difference between h1, h2, h3, and h4 and when is it appropriate to use each of them?
Are <hr/> and <br/> inline or block elements?
What are the tags for an ordered list and an unordered list?
What elements are always at the beginning of an HTML file?
What is the purpose of title and h1 tag in an HTML file?
What is the function of a section tag?
Is it appropriate for the Header or Footer tags to be contained by the Main tags?
How many h1 elements can you have per page?
What are block and inline elements in HTML?
Why doesn't the <br/> element have close tag?
Why is it good for images to have relative paths?
Explain ordered and unordered lists with examples.
How do you make a link open in a new tab?
Explain absolute, relative, and full relative paths with examples.
What attribute must an image tag always have?
What is the difference between the <head/> and <header/> tags?
What does the element article mean and do?
How can you associate a CSS file with the HTML file it should style?
What is the main purpose of adding an internal link within your website?

Week 4

What is the primary function of CSS?
What are the ways to indicate border color?
Is HTML used to style content?
If an external style sheet specifies font for an h1/ element to be 20px and an inline styling specifies it to be 18px, what size will the font be for that element?
Can HTML and CSS work by themselves to create a fully functioning webpage?
What is the difference between external and internal style sheets?
Does the CSS file name have to match the HTML file name it is associated with?
What is the term in CSS for a property-value pair?
What are the steps to get a gradient background?
When you want one single h3/ tag to be a certain color different from your other h3 tags, what do you do?
What is the difference between the way that external, internal, and inline elements affect the pages/elements they are included in?
What different between href="../styles/style.css" and href="styles/style.css"?
What does the syntax rel="stylesheet" mean? What do the elements rel and stylesheet stand for?
What does the acronym DOM stand for?
How many pixels is an 'em'?
How can you style one section in a different way than others marked up with the same section/ tags?
What three elements are always required in a webpage? How many of each should a single page include?
What are the different units to specify font sizes in CSS?
What steps must the browser take in order for the content to be displayed on your screen?
How can CSS lay out two block elements side by side on the same row?
Explain the difference between a CSS Declaration and a CSS Ruleset/Rule.
Explain the difference between block and inline elements in HTML. Give examples of each.

Week 5

content to come

What is the sequence of phase within the project life cycle?
What’s one way in which building a website is similar to building a house and why?
What are the phases of the project life cycle?
What is the first step of project lifecycle?
In what situations does it make sense for a front-end web developer to use non-semantic elements div/ and span/?
When would a non-semantic element be used?
In which phase in the project life cycle do front-end web developers spend most of their time and effort?
What are the four types of pseudo-class tags for anchor (link) tags?
What do F Patterns tell us about web user behavior?
what is the purpose of pseudo-classes?
Which of the following is the correct syntax for a class selector in CSS?a.#head {}b..head {}c.head {}d.body>head {}
What are the 3 basic selectors in CSS and what does each do?
What is the use of the BOX MODEL in CSS?
What kind of web site layout works best with information that does not need to be read in a specific order?
Can multiple HTML elements be given the same ID attribute?
What do the components of a wireframe represent?
Wireframes may not be altered after they are created. T/F
What are the phases of the development life cycle and what happens at each?
What is the difference between pseudo-class and pseudo-element?
What is the difference between semantic and non-semantic code?
Why is it important for web designers to consider the F pattern?
What is the syntax for class selectors and ID selectors?
Where can you find the github pages url for your personal repository?
Do all pages on your webpage get a wireframe layout?
How can you reference a table in png format to build a matching table using code?
What is the function of a CSS selector in a CSS rule?
How does the analysis phase of the development life cycle differ from the specification phase?
Who is involved in the implementation phase?
List key elements of the implementation phase.
what selector would you use if you wanted to only change the style for the first h2 element when there are 3 others on the same HTML page?
Describe the three basic types of selectors and how they are used.
What CSS selector tool is used to help define the special state of an element?
Which phase of the development life cycle would be the most crucial to the development of front-end code?
What is one of the main differences between block and inline elements?
At what stage in the project life cycle are wireframes created?
What is the difference between internal and external stylesheets and when would you use each element?
What conditions call for adding pseudoclasses to a CSS selector?