Internet Fundamentals

1) What is e-mail? Explain its internal working?

2) Explain the following terms related to email: SMTP, MIME, PPP, POP3.
3) What id FTP and how does it works?
4) Explain the working of search engine?
5) Write a detailed note on XML?
6) Write a note on server side programming in javascript?
7) What are web servers? What is their utility? Discuss about IIS?
8) Differentiate between authentication and authorization and privacy and secrecy?
9) Explain preventive maintenance and troubleshooting?
10) What is an HTML document AND DRAW THE STRUCTURE OF SUCH DOCUMENT?
11) What are different ways of connecting to internet?
12) Write short note on firewall, digital signatures, DNS, ISP?
13) Write down the advantage of address book, signature, and attachment in email system?
14) Write a short note on email management?
15) What is internet? How it is related to Arpanet? Write brief history of internet?
16) What is e-commerce and its various types?
17) What is www? How is address defined on internet?
18) What is pws and apache server?
19) What is software complexity and how it can be measured?
20) What are various encryption standards?
21) Explain FTP, TELNET, Archie, DNS, cookies?
22) Write short note on javascript?
23) What is a digital camera? What is the process involved in downloading a picture from camera to the
web?
24) Why might the designer of a form want to include "hidden" parameters and assign them the values?
25) What do you mean by data encryption? Explain in detail any two encryption schemes?
26) Define proxy server? Briefly discuss the "firewall challenge"
27) What security mechanism is in place to prevent someone from subscribing someone else to a number
of mailing lists? Can you unsubscribe someone else from mailing list?
28) What is an email-bomb?
29) Briefly explain the components of email message?
30) Compile a list of your 10 favorite emoticons?
31) Explain the process stepwise how a web page is retrieved and displayed on your system?
32) List the similarities between offline and online writing?

33) Describe briefly how the business can be benefitted by the use of internet?
34) Briefly explain the two types of http requests?
35) Discuss main features of apache web server specially stability, portability and security?
36) Write a script in javascript that reads in two integers and determines the output in xhtml text and
display whether the first is multiple of second?
37) Write javascript statements to accomplish various tasks
a) declare and create the array with three rows and three columns
b) accepts an integer code for a character and displays the corresponding character?
c) a recursive function power(base, exponent) that when invoked returns base to the power of
exponent?
38) Write short note on meta search engine, plugins and mime types?
39) Will your email program allow random signature? Explain what a random signature is?
40) Explain the difference between attaching a file and inserting a file in relation to an email message?
41) What do you mean by mime? How it works?
42) What are various options available for customizing your browser?
43) Briefly describe any three methods to meter the network usage?
44) Explain the applications of collaborative computing?
45) Define plugins? Write names of three plugins and their purpose?
46) What do you mean by search engine and how does it works?
47) What factors determine how quickly a file transfer over the internet?
48) Program a table in html that is borderless and contains the colors of rainbow?
49) Create Indian flags using frames?
50) Write a script that uses a function circle area to propt the user for radius of a circle and calculate and
print the area of circle?
51) Display "enter two numbers" using window object?
52) Assigns the product of variables b and c to variable a using javascript?
53) Write a javascript program to perform payroll application?
54) In the three tier application explain how the middle tier interacts with client tier?
55) What does it mean to crack a password? What are some common techniques people use to try to
crack passwords?
56) What do you mean by digital signatures? Name any four situations where digital signatures are
needed?
57) Write a short note on coast to coast surfing?
58) Briefly discuss IPv6?
59) What do you mean by term email? Write its advantages and disadvantages?
60) Explain mailers, mailboxes and mail servers?
61) Explain physical components of network and internet congestion?

62) Write an html program using 10 different html tags?

63) What is search engine? Explain various components of search engine?
64) What are cascading style sheets? Explain inline, internal and external style sheets?
65) What do you mean by software complexity? Explain its contributing factor?
66) Differentiate between public key and private key cryptography?
67) What is web browser? Explain different parts of web browser?
68) Differentiate between plugings and helper application?
69) Differentiate between semantic and syntactic based styles along with examples?
70) Define the term events and event handler?
71) Explain document object model?
72) What do you mean by internet congestion? Give technical solutions for it?
73) Explain various elements of effective web presentation?
74) Explain various navigation tools?
75) Differentiate between alert, confirm and prompt boxes?
76) Differentiate between specialty search engine and meta search engine?
77) Explain cookies?
78) Differentiate between cookies and hidden fields?
79) Differentiate between client side and server side scripting?
80) How can you display output in javascript?