Which of the following is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by
Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows?
A.
Secure Sockets Layer
B.
File Transfer Protocol
C.
Internet Information Services
D.
World Wide Web
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.
from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a clientserver 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.
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:.
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.
C