IPA IP 2024 Question 61
A question IPA Japan published in 令和6年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問61, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Which of the following is an explanation of cookie?
Explanation
Data a website writes to the visitor’s PC through the browser, and the mechanism for it — this is a cookie.
When a Web server responds, it can ask the browser to store a small piece of data (a cookie) on the visitor’s PC. On later visits the browser sends the cookie back to that site, so the site can recognise the visitor: keep a login session, remember settings or the contents of a shopping cart. The word covers both the mechanism and the stored data.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- •(b) — keeping copies of visited pages on the PC’s disk to show them faster is the browser’s cache
- •(c) — an image on a Web page that introduces or links to a website is a banner
- •(d) — a blog function that tells the linked party about the link is a trackback
Key rule: A cookie is written by the site and stored by the browser, then sent back to the same site; a cache is the browser’s own copy of pages it has fetched.
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