NAME: ________________________
    PREASSESSMENT 330-2
    (An OPPORTUNITY to detect and correct things you don't understand!)
     Assessment 2 in COSC 330 will cover Learning Modules III, IV, and V.  The assessment will be derived mostly from the following preassessment questions.  I will take 10 questions directly from the preassessment and/or proficiency evaluation questions and place them as questions 41 - 50 on Assessment 2.   Then I will rewrite questions 1 - 40; I may change some answers, but in most cases the correct answer to the question will remain, e.g. the correct answer to question 1 on Assessment 2 will be, usually, one of the four you see below.  (Note: the question/answer relationship may be reversed, e.g. if <img> is an answer on the PreAssessment, I may use it in the question on the Assessment).   So, you have most of the correct answers on the assessment; you just don't know the questions. (However, DO NOT assume that this will be "easy"; it will be a challenging learning exercise!)  In order to prepare for the Assessment, do the following (as we cover the relevant material....NOT the night before it is due!) and submit the Scantron with your answers on the date specified in the Class Schedule.  Don't turn in your PREASSESSMENT questions; keep them to study.)
  1. Answer the following questions on the Scantron Answer Sheet provided. Mark the most appropriate answer to the multiple-choice questions. (There may be more than one "correct" answer to the question!)
  2. LEARNING EXERCISES USING MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: Play "WEB JEOPARDY" with the three incorrect answers for each question, i.e. think up a question to which each is the correct answer. This way you should have sufficient questions that require you to "think" and thus prepare yourself for the coming test! (Besides, you will be doing exactly what I will be doing when I create Assessment 1!)
  3. Note that the following questions are more difficult than typical "test questions". This is by design because this is NOT A TEST; it is a homework assignment (and will be graded as such) designed TO PREPARE YOU FOR AN ASSESSMENT! Because many of the multiple choice answers are (by design) similar to one another, selecting the correct answer requires that you know the DIFFERENCE between the four choices, i.e. IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW THE DEFINITIONS of the words; you must UNDERSTAND what they represent. You probably will not be able to answer all (or even most!) of the following questions without rereading the text and my notes. Don't feel bad; that is the purpose of a "PREassessment! It is designed to help you GO BEYOND KNOWLEDGE to UNDERSTANDING!

    4. TPQ: Eliminate the "best answer" and see if other answers apply.


LM III: Basic HTML Authoring

  1. Mark up languages use ______ files to define data embedded in documents.  (a) VHLL (b) DTD  (c) ISO  (d) MIME  (e) WYSIWYG
  2. The language that describes how other languages work is:  (a) SMIL (b) SGML  (c) XHTML  (d) XML  (e) DHTML
  3. The extension of HTML to XHTML adds what new feature?  (a) modules  (b) Xforms  (c) profiles (d) all of these
  4. Which of the following can be defined by one of the others?  (a) script  (b) object  (c) cascading style sheet  (d) tags  (e) layers
  5. ________ is not an HTML authoring tool? (a) Dreamweaver  (b) FrontPage  (c) Composer  (d) Navigator  (e) SiteBuilder
  6. In the tag syntax "href=url", href is the: (a) tag name  (b) attribute  (c) attribute value  (d) RGB value  (e) all of these
  7. Meta tags are normally placed between the ______ tag and its terminator.  (a) <html>  (b) </html>  (c) <head>  (d) <body>  (e) <!doctype>
  8. Which of the following is neither a tag nor an attribute nor an attribute value?  (a) &#nnn  (b) &nbsp  (c) &name  (d) urn  (e) url
  9. A way of representing computer colors is:  (a) href  (b) http  (c) http-equiv  (d) hexidecimal  (e) none of these
  10. A tag that used within an HTML document header is: (a) <base>  (b) <address>   (c) <code>  (d) <div>  (e) all of these
  11. An attribute that can have a color as a value is:  (a) vlink (b) text  (c) alink  (d) link  (e) all of these
  12. A tag that affects the text in Navigator but not in Internet Explorer is: (a) <abbr>  (b) <acronym>  (c) <blink>  (d) <cite>  (e) <title>
  13. Which is the key tag for creating hyperlinks is:  (a) <b>  (b) <p> (c) <i>  (d) <a>  (e) <link>
  14. A tag that can be used to delimit text to be displayed as italic is: (a) <br>  (b) <li>  (c) <ol>  (d) <em>  (e) <meta>
  15. <p> is an example of a _________ tag.  (a) inline  (b) block-level  (c) type  (d) stylesheet
    LM IV: Authoring Complex Pages


  1. Which of these is NOT a "complex Web page element"? (a) table  (b) frame  (c) form  (d) SSI  (e) all are
  2. Which of the following is the most general purpose tag?  (a) <applet>  (b) <object>  (c) <embed>  (d) <script>
  3. A tag that is proprietary to Microsoft is: (a) <img>  (b) <marquee>  (c) <param>  (d) <spacer>  (e) all are
  4. Which of the following has the attribute value "pixels".  (a) units  (b) usemap  (c) ismap  (d) imagemap  (e) shapes
  5. Which of these attributes have the type text: (a) src  (b) lowsrc  (c) align  (d) alt  (e) scrolling
  6. To have a link in a frame display  Web pages in another frame, one must use the _______ attribute.  (a) code  (b) codebase  (c) codetype  (d) type  (e) target
  7. Which of the following is a tag attribute that displays a message?  (a) classid  (b) standby  (c) texttop  (b) baseline  (e) abstop
  8. Which tag can encloses any and all of the others:  (a) <table>  (b) <td>  (c) <tr>  (d) <col>  (e) <colgroup>
  9. Which tag can encloses any and all of the others:  (a)<frame>  (b) <frameset>  (c) <iframe>  (d) <noframe>  (e) none of these
  10. The tag that is specifically designed to specify choices withing one of the other tags is: (a) <input>  (b) <form>  (c) <textarea>  (d) <option>  (e) <select>
  11. Which of the following is NOT a type used in <input type=type>  (a) button  (b) radio  (c) checkbox  (d) method
  12. The attribute that specifies a server-side script to be executed is: (a) submit  (b) reset  (c) password  (d) hidden  (e) action
  13. ______ are specifically designed to run on Apache servers.  (a) SSI  (b) XSSI  (c) CCS  (d) CGI
  14. Which of these is an attribute for one of the others?  (a) cgi  (b) exec  (c) config  (d) include  (e) echo
LM V: Multimedia in Web Pages
  1. "Document ___________ is a way of treating text as a graphic. (a) bit mapped graphics  (b) vector graphics  (c) imaging  (d) Q setting  (e) codecs
  2. Which of the following is not a multimedia format?  (a) GIF  (b) GIF89a  (c) LZW  (c)  JPEG  (e) PNG
  3. Which of the following can not be used to develop Web graphics?  (a) Photoshop  (b) Fireworks  (c) Word 2000  (d) GIF Construction Set  (e) all can
  4. The GIF format has a _______ compression technology.  (a) interlaced  (b) progressive  (c) lossy  (d) loseless  (e) transparency
  5. Which of the following is a subset of one of the others?  (a) MIME  (b) MPEG  (c)  MP3  (d) AVI
  6. Digital sampling is a key facility of: (a) an audio channel  (b) waveform audio  (c) a buffer  (d) bit depth  (e) all of these
  7. In Web transmissions a codec is used for ________ files.   (a) compressing   (b) streaming  (c) sampling  (d) multicasting
  8. Which of the following is the most different from all the others?  (a) Tripod  (b) Dreamweaver  (c) Quicktime   (d) Flash   (e) Director
  9. The _________ is a measure of how fluid a video image, transmitted over a network, is.  (a) sampling rate  (b) bit rate   (c) frame rate  (d) data rate
  10. Video compression involves:  (a) key frames  (b) delta frames  (c) spatial compression  (d) temporal compression  (e) all of these
  11. The file extension for Quictime files is: (a) JP2  (b) .mov   (c) .avi   (d) .mpeg (d) none of these