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O-LevelComputer ScienceThe Internet and its uses2210/11 · May/June 2015 · Q46 Marks

Choose six correct terms from the following list to complete the spaces in the paragraphs below: • encryption • file name • firewall • HTML tags/text • IP address • protocol • proxy server • SSL certificate • web server name A user enters a URL. The web browser breaks up the URL into three components: 1 ........................................................ 2 ........................................................ 3 ........................................................ The web server returns the selected web page. The web browser reads the ........................................................ from the selected page and shows the correctly formatted page on the user's screen. A ........................................................ is used between the user's computer and the network to examine the data traffic to make sure it meets certain criteria. To speed up the access to the web pages next time, a ........................................................ is used between the computer and web server; this device uses a cache to store the website home page after it has been accessed for the first time.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2015). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

  1. [1 mark] 1: protocol
  2. [1 mark] 2: web server name
  3. [1 mark] 3: file name
  4. [1 mark] accept these three items in any order
  5. [1 mark] HTML tags/text
  6. [1 mark] firewall
  7. [1 mark] proxy server

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Topic
The Internet and its uses, O-Level Computer Science (syllabus 2210). Structured question, 6 marks.
Source
O-Level Computer Science, May/June 2015 Paper 1 Variant 1, question 4.

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