WGU D276 WEB DEVELOPMENT
FOUNDATIONS ASSESSMENT NEW UPDATE
ACTUAL EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⫸ HTTP Answer: HypterText Transfer Protocol
⫸ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Answer: An international
community that develops open standards for the Web. Created in 1993
⫸ Web Hyptertext Application Technology Working Group
(WHATWG) Answer: organization that develops a variety of web
standards and whose members include the major browser vendors. 2019
⫸ HTML Living Standard Answer: a continually evolving standard
without version numbers that replaces HTML5. Created by WHATWG
⫸ 1945 Answer: What year did the idea for generating links from within
one document to other documents is described.
⫸ 1965 Answer: When was the hyperlink invented?
⫸ 1990 Answer: First web browser is created
,⫸ 1995 Answer: HTML 2.0 standard published
⫸ 2014 Answer: HTML5 standard published.
⫸ Separation of duties Answer: Over time, a move to separate
document structure (HTML), document presentation (CSS), and
webpage interaction with the user (JavaScript).
⫸ Root Servers Answer: Thirteen main DNS servers that exist in the
world.
⫸ Top level domain Answer: .com .org etc
⫸ ccTLD Answer: country code .us .uk
⫸ Query string Answer: Optional characters to the right of the question
mark (?) in a URL that provide data for the web server.
⫸ Fragment Answer: Optional characters at the end of a URL that with
a hash character (#) and refer to a certain location within a webpage.
⫸ 404 Answer: The status code that a web server returns to a browser
when a requested webpage is not found.
,⫸ Linkrot Answer: When content is removed from the web and the
URLs that used to point to the content now return a 404 (not found)
status code.
⫸ TCP/IP Answer: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, a
protocol suite that governs how data packets are transferred over the
Internet from one machine to another.
⫸ HTTP Request Answer: A message sent from the web browser to the
web server.
⫸ HTTP Response Answer: A message sent from the web server back
to the web browser in response to an HTTP request.
⫸ Content-Length Answer: Number of bytes in the HTTP response's
message body.
⫸ Content-Type Answer: Media type of the HTTP response's message
body
⫸ HTTP Server Answer: Identifies the web server software that
generated the HTTP response.
⫸ HOST (http request) Answer: The domain name for the HTTP
requested path.
, ⫸ USER-AGENT (http request) Answer: Identifies the browser making
the HTTP request.
⫸ IANA Answer: a standards organization that manages various
internet numbers and symbols, like global IP address allocation, root
zone management, and media types.
⫸ ETag Answer: Entity Tag, an identifier for a specific version of a web
resource.
⫸ Affordances Answer: Visual clues that guide the user in figuring out
how to use an app.
⫸ Separation of Concerns Answer: The design principle of breaking up
web content using distinct languages and documents that overlap as little
as possible.
⫸ HTML Element Answer: A single HTML structure that is
represented with HTML tags.
⫸ tag Answer: A descriptive name surround by < and > characters that
the web browser uses to display content
⫸ CSS - Cascading Style Sheets Answer: A textual language for
describing how a webpage is styled for visual presentation.
FOUNDATIONS ASSESSMENT NEW UPDATE
ACTUAL EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⫸ HTTP Answer: HypterText Transfer Protocol
⫸ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Answer: An international
community that develops open standards for the Web. Created in 1993
⫸ Web Hyptertext Application Technology Working Group
(WHATWG) Answer: organization that develops a variety of web
standards and whose members include the major browser vendors. 2019
⫸ HTML Living Standard Answer: a continually evolving standard
without version numbers that replaces HTML5. Created by WHATWG
⫸ 1945 Answer: What year did the idea for generating links from within
one document to other documents is described.
⫸ 1965 Answer: When was the hyperlink invented?
⫸ 1990 Answer: First web browser is created
,⫸ 1995 Answer: HTML 2.0 standard published
⫸ 2014 Answer: HTML5 standard published.
⫸ Separation of duties Answer: Over time, a move to separate
document structure (HTML), document presentation (CSS), and
webpage interaction with the user (JavaScript).
⫸ Root Servers Answer: Thirteen main DNS servers that exist in the
world.
⫸ Top level domain Answer: .com .org etc
⫸ ccTLD Answer: country code .us .uk
⫸ Query string Answer: Optional characters to the right of the question
mark (?) in a URL that provide data for the web server.
⫸ Fragment Answer: Optional characters at the end of a URL that with
a hash character (#) and refer to a certain location within a webpage.
⫸ 404 Answer: The status code that a web server returns to a browser
when a requested webpage is not found.
,⫸ Linkrot Answer: When content is removed from the web and the
URLs that used to point to the content now return a 404 (not found)
status code.
⫸ TCP/IP Answer: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, a
protocol suite that governs how data packets are transferred over the
Internet from one machine to another.
⫸ HTTP Request Answer: A message sent from the web browser to the
web server.
⫸ HTTP Response Answer: A message sent from the web server back
to the web browser in response to an HTTP request.
⫸ Content-Length Answer: Number of bytes in the HTTP response's
message body.
⫸ Content-Type Answer: Media type of the HTTP response's message
body
⫸ HTTP Server Answer: Identifies the web server software that
generated the HTTP response.
⫸ HOST (http request) Answer: The domain name for the HTTP
requested path.
, ⫸ USER-AGENT (http request) Answer: Identifies the browser making
the HTTP request.
⫸ IANA Answer: a standards organization that manages various
internet numbers and symbols, like global IP address allocation, root
zone management, and media types.
⫸ ETag Answer: Entity Tag, an identifier for a specific version of a web
resource.
⫸ Affordances Answer: Visual clues that guide the user in figuring out
how to use an app.
⫸ Separation of Concerns Answer: The design principle of breaking up
web content using distinct languages and documents that overlap as little
as possible.
⫸ HTML Element Answer: A single HTML structure that is
represented with HTML tags.
⫸ tag Answer: A descriptive name surround by < and > characters that
the web browser uses to display content
⫸ CSS - Cascading Style Sheets Answer: A textual language for
describing how a webpage is styled for visual presentation.
