Question

__________ is the organization that oversees the development of web technologies.
1. HTTP
2. FTP
3. Consortium
4. Oracle VirtualBox

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Consortium

The correct answer is Consortium.

• WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM (W3C)
  • The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was the leading organization devoted to setting a path for the Web's development, settling disputes related to emerging technologies and practices, and implementing standards that companies, organizations, governments, and individuals overwhelmingly adopt. Hence, Option 3 is correct.
  • As such, the W3C carries enormous power, even if it chooses to exercise its power in a soft-spoken manner.
  • The W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the developer of the World Wide Web.
  • Berners-Lee launched the W3C at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science in collaboration with the Geneva-based Centre Europen de Recherche Nucleaire (European Laboratory for Particle Physics, or CERN), where Berners-Lee had first developed the Web.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)	It is an application-layer protocol for transmitting hypermedia documents, such as HTML. It was designed for communication between web browsers and web servers, but it can also be used for other purposes.
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP)	The File Transfer Protocol is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network.
Oracle Virtual Box	It is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization, developed by Oracle Corporation.