CompTIA Security+ Exam Prep

Answer: A - Cookies record Internet usage habits of individuals. Cookies are text files that a browser maintains on a user’s hard drive. Cookies are used for demographics and advertising information. As a user travels from site to site on the Internet, the sites could be writing data to the cookies stored on the user’s system. The sites can keep track of the user’s browsing and spending habits and the user’s specific customization for certain sites. The servers at the web site determine how cookies are actually used. When a user adds items to his shopping cart on a site, such data is usually added to a cookie. Then, when the user is ready to check out and pay for the items, all the data in this specific cookie is extracted and the totals are added.