Exam 2: Communications, Networks, the Internet, and the World Wide Web

Using a(n) ____ program, messages can be created, sent, received, forwarded, stored, printed, and deleted.

____ signals like those shown in the accompanying figure are individual electrical pulses that a computer uses to represent data.

____________________ enables users to speak to other users over the Internet using their desktop computer, mobile computer, or mobile device.

A(n) ____ records the pages viewed while you are online.

The Internet is used to ____.

Each computer's location on the Internet has a specific numeric address consisting of five groups of numbers.

The text version of a computer address is called a domain name.

A(n) ____ is an outline of user standards that reminds teachers, students, and parents that they are guests on the Internet.

A(n) ____________________ is regional or national access provider.

Voice over IP allows users to speak to other users over the Internet using their desktop computer, mobile computer, or mobile device.

A ____ is the path that data follows as the data is transmitted as shown in the accompanying figure.

Telephone equipment originally was designed to carry only voice transmission, which is comprised of a continuous electrical wave called a(n) digital signal.

A(n) ____________________ hyperlink links to another document on a different Internet server that could be across the country or across the world.

There is no difference between a newsgroup and a mailing list.

____ was/were one of the original features of the Internet, enabling scientists and researchers working on government-sponsored projects to communicate with colleagues at other locations.

A ____ LAN is a LAN that uses media such as radio waves rather than wires.

Simple ____ applications consist of individual sound files that are available for downloading to a computer.

As shown in the accompanying figure, the ____________________ is the world's largest network, a worldwide collection of networks that link together millions of businesses, governments, educational institutions, and individuals using modems, telephone lines, and other communications devices and media.

A ____, which is similar to a book cover or table of contents, provides information about the purpose and content of a collection of Web pages.

Some FTP sites allow anonymous FTP, whereby anyone can transfer some, if not all, available files.