Exam 1: Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 8 : Introduction to Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer and Windows store your favorites as small text files in a folder on a Web server.

____, a type of malicious software, randomly displays advertisements and other messages while you use your computer.

All of the resources and links found throughout the Internet create an interconnected network called ____.

The accompanying figure, from beginning to end, illustrates a ____.

The ____ list contains the titles of all Web pages in the order they were displayed during the current session.A check mark preceding a name in the list identifies the page currently displayed.

Clicking the Internet Explorer menu icon on the title bar will display the ____ menu, which contains commands to carry out the actions associated with the Internet Explorer window.

The Internet started as a government experiment for the military.

Each computer on the Internet has a unique address, called a(n)____.

Internet Explorer 8 includes a ____ Filter designed to identify malicious and fraudulent Web sites, and will inform you by displaying an appropriate message in the display area and changing the background color of the Address Bar to red.

Case 2 Eddy is testing out the Address Bar features in Internet Explorer.  Please answer the questions below. Eddy notices that in the URL shown, that "scsite.com" is in brighter type than the rest of the URL.  This is a new Internet Explorer feature called ____.

The ____________________ is located to the right of the Address Bar and allows you to perform a search on the World Wide Web by entering your search criteria and pressing the enter key.

Domain hijacking helps to protect from phishing scams by allowing the user to easily identify whether the Web site currently displayed in the window is the Web site he or she intended to visit.

____ is a word processing program that is supplied with Microsoft Windows.

Web page authors use a special language called ____to create Web pages.

If you know the URL of a Web page you want to visit, click the URL in the Address Bar to highlight it, type the new URL, and then press the ENTER key to display the corresponding page.

In some cases today, fixed wireless access is replacing wires over the last mile, which impairs access to the Internet.