Hosting Web Hosting Services 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is colocation hosting?
- Placing your own server hardware in a third-party data center (Correct answer)
- Renting a fully managed shared server
- Hosting files on a personal laptop
- Using free blog hosting
Correct answer: Placing your own server hardware in a third-party data center
Colocation lets you house your own hardware in a provider's data center using their power, cooling, and bandwidth.
Question 2: Which term describes the amount of data transferred between a website and its visitors over time?
- Bandwidth (Correct answer)
- Latency
- Uptime
- Caching
Correct answer: Bandwidth
Bandwidth refers to the volume of data transfer allowed or used by a hosting account.
Question 3: What distinguishes 'managed' hosting from 'unmanaged' hosting?
- The provider handles maintenance, updates, and security (Correct answer)
- It is always cheaper
- It only supports static HTML
- It excludes a control panel
Correct answer: The provider handles maintenance, updates, and security
Managed hosting includes provider-handled server administration, patching, and support.
Question 4: Which type of hosting is specifically optimized and configured for a single CMS platform?
- Managed WordPress hosting (Correct answer)
- Generic shared hosting
- Colocation
- DNS hosting
Correct answer: Managed WordPress hosting
Managed WordPress hosting is tuned with caching, security, and updates specific to WordPress.
Question 5: What does an SSL certificate provide for a hosted website?
- Encrypted connections via HTTPS (Correct answer)
- Faster CPU processing
- More disk space
- Automatic backups
Correct answer: Encrypted connections via HTTPS
An SSL/TLS certificate encrypts data between the browser and server, enabling HTTPS.
Question 6: In a dedicated server plan, who has exclusive use of the physical machine?
- A single customer (Correct answer)
- All customers on the network
- The data center staff only
- Any anonymous visitor
Correct answer: A single customer
Dedicated hosting gives one customer exclusive use of an entire physical server.
Question 7: What is the role of DNS in web hosting?
- Translating domain names into IP addresses (Correct answer)
- Compressing image files
- Encrypting databases
- Generating SSL keys
Correct answer: Translating domain names into IP addresses
DNS resolves human-readable domain names to the server's numeric IP address.
