MENU
Refer to the exhibit.
import requests
def check_status(url):
response = requests.get(url)
return response.status_code
In which programming language is the code written, and what is it trying to accomplish?
The syntax identifies Python: it uses import, defines a function with def, terminates the function header with a colon, and relies on indentation rather than braces. The requests library sends an HTTP GET request to the supplied URL, and response.status_code returns the server's HTTP result code. Repeated execution can test whether a website responds successfully, which makes ''website-uptime monitor'' the closest description among the choices. Strictly, this short function performs one availability check; a production monitor would add scheduling, timeouts, exception handling, expected-status logic, logging, and alerting. It neither parses a dataset nor implements a content-management system, and it does not write response content to a file. Option D is therefore correct. This is within CBRFIR objectives 2.4 and 2.5. The official Requests quick-start documentation demonstrates requests.get() and status_code in this exact role.