Which of the following is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows?

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• ASecure Sockets Layer
• BFile Transfer Protocol
• CInternet Information Services
• DWorld Wide Web

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  8% (2)
• C
  88% (21)

Explanation

Internet Information Services (IIS) formerly called Internet Information Server is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows. It is the world's second most popular web server in terms of overall websites behind the industry leader Apache HTTP Server. As of March 2010, it served 24.47% of all websites on the Internet according to Netcraft. The protocols supported in IIS 7 include: FTP, FTPS, SMTP, NNTP, and HTTP/HTTPS. Answer: B is incorrect. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client- server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server applications, which solves the problem of different end host configurations (i.e., Operating System, file names). FTP is used with user-based password authentication or with anonymous user access. Answer: A is incorrect. The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. SSL has recently been succeeded by Transport Layer Security (TLS), which is based on SSL. SSL uses a program layer located between the Internet's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Transport Control Protocol (TCP) layers. SSL is included as part of both the Microsoft and Netscape browsers and most Web server products. URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:. Answer: D is incorrect. The World Wide Web is abbreviated as WWW and commonly known as the Web. It is a system of interlinked hypertext documents that can be accessed through the Internet. With WWW, anyone can view Web pages that contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks.

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