So I'm reading the Weiss/Dulaney masterwork "Exam Cram i-Net+" today... You'd think a 4 1/2 to 5 star book on Amazon and Barnes & Noble would be perfect, but not so.

Here's a couple questionable end-of-chapter questions for Chapter 6, the chapter ambiguously titled "Web Service."

Which of the following is the correct format for a URL?

a. port://hostname:protocol/path/filename.ext
b. port://hostname:protocol/filename/path.ext
c. protocol://hostname:port/path/filename.ext
d. protocol://hostname:port/path/filename/path.ext

Their answer: d. Thanks guys!!! (/sarcasm) By way of explaination they say A sample URL is http://www.domain.com:8080/directory/subdirectory/file.htm OK... So they know what they want, but they wrote the answer wrong. Or they wrote choice D incorrectly, as it seems they wanted two dirs/paths.

Then, 2 questions later, I get this:

When a client issues a cookie, it store the cookies as what type of file?

The answer was Plain Text, but I expected it to be a trick question. They had just finished stressing that cookies are originally transmitted by a web server to a client! Clients don't "issue" cookies... the first time, anyway. Oh well, the authors are only human, right? And beyond that it's been a wonderful book so far.

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yes, actaully i believe the meant to write

"when a client is ISSUED a cookie, it stores it as plain text"

so they were off by one letter .. and in the question above that .. well the author was obviously drunk on a few pints of ale, so dont be too hard on him =) .. good luck on the exam ..
-neural

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I had a few questions like that in the Exam Prep too. All-in-all I still prefer the ExamCram/Prep series over any other.

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Hi

I'm new to all this ... can one of you guys give me the correct answer/explanation for the URL question?

Thanks a lot.

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Well the correct answer should have been option c. How basic should I get? Not sure exactly how "new" you are

The explaination is because... well, protocol is first. For instance: http:// would indicate you want to make the connection using Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which is mainly used for webpages, and the graphics they contain, etc. You could, however, enter ftp:// in your browser, indicating you want to make a File Transfer Protocol connection to the address (which you are about to specify...)

Hostname = domain name, like Yahoo.com, or it could be an IP address, like 62.29.32.1 (my gate BTW ). That's why typing in http://www.yahoo.com/ gets you to Yahoo!'s website -- because you stated the computer name of the server you want, and that you wanted a website (HTTP).

Port tells which TCP/IP port number to attempt to make the connection to the host on. Browsers automatically use the default of port 80 for HTTP, without you having to enter it all the time (you don't have to type http://www.yahoo.com:80/).

Path = directories on the remote host. Instead of going to Yahoo.com, you might want to start out at the Yahoo! Information Center. So you take the URL we've got so far (http://www.yahoo.com:80) and append /info to it. If there's more to the path, like /info/pr for the Press Room, we tack all of it on there. http://www.yahoo.com:80/info/pr/

Finally if there's a specific file in the previously specified dir, we can ask for that by giving its full file name, like index.html (file.ext meant filename + file type extension).

And that's all I have to say about that.

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Well said Sh0tgun - when are you taking the i-Net+ exam?

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I'm 1/2 thru the Cram. However, this early stuff I know pretty well. I even already have experience w/basic HTML. However copyright law, etc. I'm weak on. So my progress will slow in a couple chapters.

I think it's the only book I'm using though. Then I have a couple practice test programs to use. I will schedule for maybe late the week of the 20th. I want time for ProSoft to process my request for CIW Associate while it's still only $49! (No clue if I'll push on in CIW, but I'd better get Assoc. just in case!)

Watch: since i-Net+ is the first exam I'm treating nonchalantly, I'll probably fail my first attempt LOL

Cram is an excellent book, they're throwing out lots of extras like the rfc numbers for what they discuss. I love it.

Oh, and FYI, go here for everything to do with i+ to CIW... figured if you don't know, you'd be interested.

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thanks for the link - I'm planning to sit for this exam on Thursday - I used the Sybex book and the Certification Study System book by Joseph Byrne along with Exam Drill. Hopefully I will knock this one out and, like yourself, apply for the CIW-A before the rate increase (again!).

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Thanks for the explanation.

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