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WGU D276 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS (VERIFIED AND UPDATED)
HTML - ANS Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to
achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
HTTP - ANS HypterText Transfer Protocol
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - ANS An international community that develops open
standards for the Web. Created in 1993
Web Hyptertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) - ANS organization that
develops a variety of web standards and whose members include the major browser vendors.
2019
HTML Living Standard - ANS a continually evolving standard without version numbers that
replaces HTML5. Created by WHATWG
1945 - ANS What year did the idea for generating links from within one document to other
documents is described.
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,1965 - ANS When was the hyperlink invented?
1990 - ANS First web browser is created
1995 - ANS HTML 2.0 standard published
2014 - ANS HTML5 standard published.
Separation of duties - ANS Over time, a move to separate document structure (HTML),
document presentation (CSS), and webpage interaction with the user (JavaScript).
Root Servers - ANS Thirteen main DNS servers that exist in the world.
Top level domain - ANS .com .org etc
ccTLD - ANS country code .us .uk
Query string - ANS Optional characters to the right of the question mark (?) in a URL that
provide data for the web server.
Fragment - ANS Optional characters at the end of a URL that with a hash character (#) and
refer to a certain location within a webpage.
404 - ANS The status code that a web server returns to a browser when a requested webpage
is not found.
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, Linkrot - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS A message sent from the web browser to the web server.
HTTP Response - ANS A message sent from the web server back to the web browser in
response to an HTTP request.
Content-Length - ANS Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message body.
Content-Type - ANS Media type of the HTTP response's message body
HTTP Server - ANS Identifies the web server software that generated the HTTP response.
HOST (http request) - ANS The domain name for the HTTP requested path.
USER-AGENT (http request) - ANS Identifies the browser making the HTTP request.
IANA - ANS a standards organization that manages various internet numbers and symbols,
like global IP address allocation, root zone management, and media types.
ETag - ANS Entity Tag, an identifier for a specific version of a web resource.
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
WGU D276 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS (VERIFIED AND UPDATED)
HTML - ANS Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to
achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
HTTP - ANS HypterText Transfer Protocol
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - ANS An international community that develops open
standards for the Web. Created in 1993
Web Hyptertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) - ANS organization that
develops a variety of web standards and whose members include the major browser vendors.
2019
HTML Living Standard - ANS a continually evolving standard without version numbers that
replaces HTML5. Created by WHATWG
1945 - ANS What year did the idea for generating links from within one document to other
documents is described.
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,1965 - ANS When was the hyperlink invented?
1990 - ANS First web browser is created
1995 - ANS HTML 2.0 standard published
2014 - ANS HTML5 standard published.
Separation of duties - ANS Over time, a move to separate document structure (HTML),
document presentation (CSS), and webpage interaction with the user (JavaScript).
Root Servers - ANS Thirteen main DNS servers that exist in the world.
Top level domain - ANS .com .org etc
ccTLD - ANS country code .us .uk
Query string - ANS Optional characters to the right of the question mark (?) in a URL that
provide data for the web server.
Fragment - ANS Optional characters at the end of a URL that with a hash character (#) and
refer to a certain location within a webpage.
404 - ANS The status code that a web server returns to a browser when a requested webpage
is not found.
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, Linkrot - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS A message sent from the web browser to the web server.
HTTP Response - ANS A message sent from the web server back to the web browser in
response to an HTTP request.
Content-Length - ANS Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message body.
Content-Type - ANS Media type of the HTTP response's message body
HTTP Server - ANS Identifies the web server software that generated the HTTP response.
HOST (http request) - ANS The domain name for the HTTP requested path.
USER-AGENT (http request) - ANS Identifies the browser making the HTTP request.
IANA - ANS a standards organization that manages various internet numbers and symbols,
like global IP address allocation, root zone management, and media types.
ETag - ANS Entity Tag, an identifier for a specific version of a web resource.
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
