CS403 Sections 01, 03, 04                                                                                                 Spring 2009

Exam:Tuesday, February 24, 2009

 

Exam 1 Study Guide

 

Format of the exam (approx.):

                Multiple Choice questions – 30%

                Acronyms – 5% (ARPANET, ASCII, BITNET, CSNET, DNS, GUI, HTML, HTTP, IMAP, MIME, POP, RGB, SMTP, URL, WWW, XHTML – know about half)

                T/F – 15%

                Timeline of Internet events – 10% (focus on major events – see below)

                Short Essays – 20%   (3 questions)

                XHTML Coding – 20%   (2 or 3 problems) – I will give you some XHTML code and ask you to draw what the browser would display and I will ask you to identify the bugs in some XHTML code.

 

Exam material: (Review the slides indicated below and pay particular attention to the specified topics.)

General

 

Chapter 1

                Review the slides for Chapter 1 - Email

                                Go to: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/summaries.html (Select Chapter 1 link)

                Review the posted answers to the first assignment

                                Go to: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/GRADING/grading1.html

                Remarks: You should understand what the following are: Pine, SMTP, top level domain names (like .edu, .com etc – know the common ones); global vs. system-wide aliases; distribution lists; Spam

 

Chapter 2

                Review the slides for Chapter 2 – Jumpstart: Browsing and Publishing

                                Go to: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/summaries.html (Select Chapter 2 link and Chapter 7 link for lists)

                Review the posted answers to the second assignment

                                Go to:  http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/GRADING/grading2.html

                Remarks: You should understand the basic form of a url; the difference between relative and absolute urls; when to use an absolute url and when to use a relative url; why we use the alt attribute in the image tag; why we specify height and width attributes in the image tag; XHTML vs. HTML; what is Lynx, Mosaic, Pico, the client/server model; HTTP vs. the file protocol; the RGB color model; the three types of lists and their tags  (this was covered in class and is also described by following the link for Chapter 7 on the Summaries page); plus all the other tags covered…

 

Chapter 3

                Review the slides for Chapter 3 – Internet Timeline

                                Go to: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/summaries.html (Select the first link for Chapter 3 – Internet Timeline)

                Remarks: You do not need to know all the timeline events; focus on the major events such as:

                                The very beginning of ARPANET (1969)

                                Email (1972)

                                TCP/IP is required for all ARPANET hosts (1983)

                                WWW is created (1991)

                                Mosaic is developed (1993)

                                Yahoo! (1994)

                                Netscape Navigator source code is released (1998)

                                Napster (1999)

                                You should also be familiar with the contributions made by the following people: Michael Hart, Ray Tomlinson, Scott Fahlman, Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Shawn Fanning

 

General remarks:

            To access the links on the Summaries page, the username is guest and password is CS403 (that is uppercase CS).

                Please DO NOT BRING CELL PHONES to the exam!

                I may ask questions that you answered for homework problems.

                I will ask you to write out what some acronyms mean – you will not have to explain what it means, just what it stands for. For example, WWW = World Wide Web. I do not expect everyone to know all the acronyms (it would be nice, though…) so I will let you select the ones that you want to answer by selecting them from a list. You should know at least half of what I have listed above.