Sample exam questions and answers

Question 1
A commercial business wants to set up a website for the first time.

a. List two reasons why the business might want to have a website.
b. What is meant by the ‘intended audience’ of a website?
c. What would you expect to find on the home page of a business website?
d. Apart from the home page, list two pages that you would expect to find on a business
website.
e. List two advantages to the business of having a website.
f. List one advantage of a business website to the general public.

Suggested answer

a. To inform customers about the services they offer; to sell goods

b. The types of people that the website owners would like to attract to the website e.g.
people who live in a particular place or who have particular interests.

c. Information about the company, links to other pages.

d. About Us, Contact

e. So they can reach more people; to sell goods and services over a wider geographical
area; cheaper way of selling goods than owning expensive shop premises.

f. They can look at the information at a time that suits them.

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Question 2
a. Explain why navigation is important in a website.
b. List four things that a hyperlink can link to.
c. Traditionally hyperlinks used one colour for links and a second colour for visited links.
What were the two colours?
d. In what other way was a hyperlink traditionally indicated in text?
e. Which of these can be used as a hyperlink: text, photo, icon, clip art?
f. Why is it advisable to place the same main links on every page of a website?

Suggested answer

a. Navigation enables a viewer to find their way around a website.

b. A page on the same website; a bookmark on the same page; a page in another website;
a user created file; to send an e-mail

c. Blue and magenta

d. By underlining.

e. All of them

f. So the viewer can easily find the navigation links on each page.

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Question 3
a. What is a web browser?
b. Give the name of a web browser.
c. Why should you always test a web page in a web browser before uploading it to a web
server?
d. How are FTP and HTTP used with websites?
e. How can you test whether a website is suitable for the intended audience?

Suggested answer

a. A software application that finds, downloads and displays web pages.

b. Internet Explorer

c. Because some features on a web page only become apparent when viewed in a web
browser.

d. FTP is usually used to upload web pages to a web server. HTTP is used to download
web pages to be viewed in a browser.

e. Invite some people who fit the intended audience to try out the website, and observe
their reactions.

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Question 4
A domain name has to be registered before it can be used for a website.

a. Give an example of a domain name.

b. What is a web host?
c. What is the index page of a website?
d. What is the difference between the index page and the home page of a website?

Suggested answer

a. example.com. (Note that www is not part of the domain name.)

b. A company that owns web servers where websites can be located.

c. It is the first page that is downloaded when the browser locates the website.

d. The home page is the main page of a website. The index page may or may not be the
home page, for example, sometimes the index page contains instructions that redirect
the browser to another part of the site.