HTML Forms - CIW SDA Lesson 6

Jane has created a Web form for users to submit information to his Web site. A CGI script helps process and store the data in a database. Which attribute of the form field elements in Janes' Web form will perform the task of organizing user information into name=value pairs?

• method
• name
• value
• form

Which technology resides on a server and receives Web form data from the browser, then processes the data into human-readable format?

• CGI
• HTTP
• XML
• HTML

A user has accessed your company's Web server with her Web browser. Which choice lists the necessary elements for a CGI session to occur in this scenario?

• A CGI script, a Web form, and a database server
• A Web form, a Web server with a CGI interpreter, and a separate database server
• A CGI script, a Web form, and a Web server with a CGI interpreter
• A Web form and a database server

Consider the following code for a text box in a Web form:
<input type="text" name="UserName"/>
Which modified tag should you use if you want the text box to appear with default text that reads "Enter Name Here"?

• <input type="text" name="UserName" value="Enter Name Here"/>
• <input type="name" text="Enter Name Here" value="text"/>
• <input type="area" value="default" text="UserName"/>
• <input type="text" name="UserName" default="Enter Name Here"/>

Your company Web site uses a Web form to collect data from a user. The user has entered data into the form fields and will soon click the Submit button, then the data will be sent to a database. Which of the following passes information from the Web form to the database server?

• A CGI script
• A Perl script
• A database
• An e-mail server

You are creating a Web form in HTML5 for your site. You want to make sure you code it correctly to process data. You have included the action attribute in the <form> element. What else do you need to include?

• The method attribute of the <input> element
• The method attribute of the <form> element
• The type attribute of the <form> element
• The type attribute of the <input> element

Which line of HTML code creates a scrolling text box that can display three rows of text that are each 30 characters long?

• <input type="textarea" name="comments" width="30" rows="3"/>
• <input type="text" name="comments" chars="30" rows="3"/>
• <text name="comments" width="30" rows="3">
• <textarea name="comments" cols="30" rows="3">

In the Web form you are creating, you want a multiple-option select list to appear with five options. Which line of HTML code will help accomplish this?

• <input type="select" name="work" multiple="yes" default="5"/>
• <select name="work" multiple="multiple" size="5">
• <select name="work" size="5">
• <input type="multiselect" name="work" default="5"/>

Which line of HTML code begins a single-option select list?

• <select name="listName">
• <input type="select" name="listName" multiple="0"/>
• <select name="listName" multiple="no">
• <input type="select" name="listName"/>

Your company's intranet Web server has crashed. You must help re-create the server. A server administrator has copied a CGI script from last night's backup tape. The server is an exact duplicate of the server that just crashed. However, this script will not process information on the new server. What is most likely the problem on the server?

• Executable permissions have not been set correctly.
• The Web server cannot support the script.
• The firewall is blocking the CGI script's transmissions.
• The script is responsible for the crash of the original Web server.