API (Application Programming Interface)

Question 1

What is API?

Answer 1

• Messenger that takes requests and tells the system what you want to do
• Produce or service communicate with other products and services
• Dictates how two machines communicate with one another

Question 2

Client server model

Answer 2

Makes requests, server listens, responds to requests

Question 3

What is a client server model?

Answer 3

• The web is referred to as a client server communication

- Servers are NOT A DEVICE they are a computer program

Question 4

What can a server do?

Answer 4

• Provide functionality
• Host web applications
• Serve thousands of clients
• High performance computer

Question 5

What can a client server model do?

Answer 5

• Client programs allow user to make requests
• Based on a centralised structure
• Serve other programs called clients
• Way for computers to communicate via the web