TryHackMe: How the Web Works — Putting It All Together a Walkthrough

Jasmine Parks
3 min readMar 21, 2022

This is a step-by-step walkthrough of TryHackMe’s Putting It All Together room, with screenshots.

Task 1: Putting it all together

Read the material

Question 1: No answer required

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Task 3: Other Components

Question 2: What can be used to host static files and speed up a clients visit to a website?
Per THM: CDN

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Question 3: What does a load balancer perform to make sure a host is still alive?
Per THM: Health Check

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Question 4: What can be used to help against the hacking of a website?
Per THM: WAF

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Task 3: How Web Servers Work

Question 5: What does web server software use to host multiple sites?
Per THM: Virtual Hosts

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Question 6: What is the name for the type of content that can change?
Per THM: Dynamic

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Question 7: Does the client see the backend code? Yay/Nay
Per THM: Nay

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Task 4: Quiz

Question 8: Flag

Click “View Site”

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This page will load in your browser:

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Drag and drop the icons on the left-hand side and put them in order on the right-hand side.

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Once they are in the proper order, the flag will be revealed.

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