IB Diploma Programme (DP) - SL & HL · Computer Science

Web science: Practice Questions

5 multiple-choice questions marked as you go, and 1 written questions with worked solutions. All on Web science.

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Question 1

1 mark

Which of the following best describes the function of a web crawler (or spider) in the context of search engine operations?

Question 2

1 mark

Which client-side scripting language is primarily used to make web pages interactive and dynamic, allowing for manipulation of the Document Object Model (DOM) after the page has loaded?

Question 3

1 mark

The Semantic Web aims to make internet data machine-readable and understandable. Which of the following technologies is primarily responsible for describing relationships between data items in a structured, machine-processable way, forming the basis of Linked Data principles?

Question 4

1 mark

Which protocol is specifically designed to provide secure communication over a computer network, widely used for secure web browsing and online transactions?

Question 5

1 mark

In the context of web search engines, how does the use of a stop word list during the indexing process affect the search database?

Question 6

2 marks

Identify the web technology used specifically to describe the presentation, formatting, and layout of a document written in HTML.

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