Important File Extensions Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: .php

PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page and now for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor; its files take .php.

Answer: B

Correct answer: java server page

.jsp is a Java Server Page - HTML with embedded Java that the server executes to produce the page sent to the browser.

Answer: B

Correct answer: .zip

.zip is the standard compressed archive format, holding one or more files compressed together.

Answer: C

Correct answer: .cpp

.cpp is the usual extension for C++ source; the doubled p stands for the two plus signs in the language's name. Plain C source uses .c.

Answer: C

Correct answer: .msi

.msi is a Microsoft Installer package - a database of files and instructions that the Windows Installer service reads to install a program.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Audio Interchange File Format

AIFF is Audio Interchange File Format, the uncompressed audio format developed by Apple, corresponding to WAV on Windows.

Answer: A

Correct answer: DOS Batch File

A .bat file is a batch file: a plain text list of DOS commands that the command interpreter runs in sequence. .com is the DOS command executable.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Apple QuickTime Movie

.qt is a QuickTime movie, Apple's multimedia container; .mov is the commoner extension for the same format.

Answer: A

Correct answer: .ra

.ra is RealAudio, the streaming audio format from RealNetworks. .rtf is a document format and belongs to a different family altogether.

Answer: C

Correct answer: .svg

.svg is Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML-based format that stores shapes rather than pixels, so the image can be enlarged without loss.