Internet Information Services 5.0

 

1.  What is the Internet Information Service?

      The World Wide Web (www) is a service on the Internet, which allows you to publish information in the form of documents called Web pages. Documents are stored on the computer called Web server and are made available to users on the Internet through a process called Web hosting.

2.  What is the Web publishing?

      When a page is hosted, it is available for viewing through a software application called the Web browser that resides in the user’s computer. Hosting a site is also, sometimes, called Web publishing.

3.  What are the components involved in Web publishing?

·        Web pages – consist of the text and graphic-content that are marked up, or encoded, using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

·        Web server – stores Web pages and makes them available to users

·        Web browser – enables the access of the Web pages

4.  What are the advanced features of IIS 5.0?

·        Quick restarting – IIS 5.0 includes the IIS Reliable Restart feature, which provides a single-step method of stopping and restarting IIS services

·        Support of multiple sites – allows the hosting of multiple sites on a single server through the means of multiple IP addresses, port numbers, and Host Headers

·        Process throttling – allows you to limit the extent to which each running process can load the CPU

·        Bandwidth throttling – allows server administrator to guarantee the bandwidth available on a Web site

·        Process accounting – allow you to log the CPU usage for each site being hosted on IIS 5.0. the logs help you identify the sites that may be excessively loading the CPU

·        Web distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) – this facilitates collaborative development of Web pages

·        Application protection – IIS 5.0 provides improved protection from intermittent malfunctions in programs

·        Restarting downloads in FTP – FTP sites allow you to download files

·        Better support for ASP (Active Server Pages) –  provides improved error handling and better flow control statements for ASP than earlier versions of IIS

·        Active Directory Support – IIS 5.0-site configuration information can be read and manipulated through Active Directory  

5.  What kind of settings the Web environment consists?

·        Creating Web sites

·        Creating home directories

·        Creating virtual directories

·        Redirecting request

·        Creating virtual sites

·        Using dynamic Web pages

6.  What are the common IIS 5.0 administration tasks?

·        Site properties

·        Performance properties

·        ISAPI filter

·        Home directory properties

·        Directory security properties

7.  How the IIS 5.0 is installed in Win 2000 Server?

     In Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5.0 is installed by default.