Exam 2: The Internet: Accessing, Searching, Sharing, and Communicating

Explain what an IM is, and what the technology shown in the accompanying figure is.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You have a new web app and the host for it is going to provide storage for your data on their server. What is this called?

A disadvantage with a subject directory is that users sometimes have difficulty deciding which categories to choose as they work through the menus of links presented.

Webpage developers often use FTP to upload their webpages to a web server.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You are going to form a partnership with an organization that sells domain names. What kind of organization is your partner?

Which of the following is special software that a user needs in order to listen to an audio file on a computer?

Which of the following is a digital representation of nontext information such as a drawing, chart, or photo?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What is the software that finds websites, webpages, images, and other information called?

Critical Thinking Questions Case 2-2 You have just started an internship on a graphic design team and you are learning about graphic formats used on the web. Which of the following is true?

When you enter a domain name, the DNS server translates the domain name to its associated IP address of that data and information can be routed to the correct computer.

A megabyte is equal to approximately one billion characters.

Once you post media, you might be giving up certain rights to the media.

To add an email name and address to a mailing list, a user unsubscribes from it.

The more compressed the graphics file, the smaller the image and the higher the quality.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following identify the five steps in web publishing?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What are two elements found in an email address?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT IF YOU RECEIVE AN EMAIL MESSAGE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, WHAT DOES THIS SIGNIFY?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You are using a website to check the ticket availability for your flight to Denmark. To what category does this website belong?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT The major carriers of Internet network traffic are known collectively by what term?

Examples of informational websites include libraries, encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, guides, and other types of reference.