Case-Based Critical Thinking Question
Scott is the website administrator for a large pet food manufacturer. It plans to sell its products online and wants to test its retail website.
Scott hires an intern to help with the project, and realizes that the new intern has uploaded all of the testing pages to the final upload location on the web server. Scott tells the intern the following: ____.
A) "Good job. That is exactly where they go."
B) "That is not a good location because all the pages are now available to the public."
C) "That is not a good location because 'testing' pages should never be put on a server."
D) "The pages will not appear on the server because the pages should have been downloaded, not uploaded."

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Case-Based Critical Thinking Question
Scott is the website administrator for a large pet food manufacturer. It plans to sell its products online and wants to test its retail website.
Scott hires an intern to help with the project, and realizes that the new intern has uploaded all of the testing pages to the final upload location on the web server.  Scott tells the intern the following: ____.
A) "Good job. That is exactly where they go."
B) "That is not a good location because all the pages are now available to the public."
C) "That is not a good location because 'testing' pages should never be put on a server."
D) "The pages will not appear on the server because the pages should have been downloaded, not uploaded."

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Uploading testing pages to the final upload location makes them publicly accessible, which is not ideal for pages that are still being tested.