Exam 1: Discovering the Internet Brief 5th Edition by Jennifer Campbell

____________________ is a measure of the capacity of a communications channel.

A ____ is a specific geographic location in which a wireless access point provides public Internet access.

____________________ Internet access comes in two varieties: one-way and two-way.

Organizations that use the Internet for internal activities, such as keeping their staff connected to a corporate database, are following the ____________________ e-business model.

Case 1-2 You work at home and are planning to have an Internet connection installed in your home office. As part of your planning effort, you must decide on the best type of connection for your needs. -Which of the following Internet connection types is the better choice if the network requires a less-expensive digital line that carries multiple signals over a single communications line?

Case 1-2 You work at home and are planning to have an Internet connection installed in your home office. As part of your planning effort, you must decide on the best type of connection for your needs. -Which of the following Internet connection types is the better choice if cost is no object and you live in a rural area with few other alternatives?

The scientist who developed the first email program is ____.

The Gopher Internet directory system for locating files on Gopher servers connected to the Internet was developed at the University of Minnesota in the early 1990s.

MMOGs allow many users to play online games simultaneously, but participation is limited to individuals living in the country in which the game is hosted.

_____ transmits data between two electronic devices using radio frequency.

Text or pictures in a webpage that can be used to view a different location in the same page or a different page are known as ____.

____ switching involves separating data from a sending computer into small units and then sending the small units to the destination computer where they are reassembled.

The document system that allows users to click on a word to jump to another location within the same file is called ____.

A billion bits per second, or gigabits, can be written as ____________________.

The ____________________ works because different types of computers can communicate with each other using a common communication protocol.

Outlook is an example of an email program.

With ____________________ users access computer services, such as data storage and productivity software, using remote servers.

A subset of the Internet that supports documents that combine pictures, sound, and animation with text is ____.

A standard or set of rules that computer network devices follow when transmitting and receiving data is called a ____.

A smartphone may offer cellular and ____ capabilities, which allow a user to connect to the Internet.