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98-361 · Question #59

Which term is used to describe small units of text that are stored on a client computer and retrieved to maintain state?

The correct answer is B. Cookie. HTTP is a stateless protocol. This means that user data is not persisted from one Web page to the next in a Web site. One way to maintain state is through the use of cookies. Cookies store a set of user specific information, such as a reference identifier for a database record…

Understanding Web Applications

Question

Which term is used to describe small units of text that are stored on a client computer and retrieved to maintain state?

Options

  • ATrace
  • BCookie
  • Cserver transfer
  • Dcross-page post

How the community answered

(25 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    84% (21)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    8% (2)

Explanation

HTTP is a stateless protocol. This means that user data is not persisted from one Web page to the next in a Web site. One way to maintain state is through the use of cookies. Cookies store a set of user specific information, such as a reference identifier for a database record that holds customer information.

Topics

#cookies#session state#client-side storage#state management

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