Correct Answer: MIME - Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions MIME types represents a standard way of classifying file types over Internet Web servers and browsers have a list of MIME types, which facilitates files transfer of the same type in the same way, irrespective of operating system they are working in A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype They are separated by a slash (/) MIME type for Microsoft Word files is application and the subtype is msword, ie application/msword