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

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?

Why do many webpages use graphical designs and images?

The JPEG format works best for images that have only a few colors.

The major carriers of network traffic on the Internet are known collectively as the ____________________.

Which of the following identifies broadband Internet connections?

A search engine displays a list of webpage names that contain the search text. What is the term for that list?

When you enter a web address in a browser, you request, or ____________________, information from a web server.

Bing, Google, and Yahoo! are all examples of web ____________________.

Cybercafes exist in cities in the U.S. but not elsewhere.

Some home users connect computers to the Internet via slower-speed dial-up access because of its lower cost or because broadband access is not available where they live.

Most current web browsers support tabbed browsing, where the top of the browser displays a tab for each webpage you open.

When using email, it is not important to use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

Using the technology shown in the accompanying figure, others connected to the same server see what a user has typed.

In a search engine, parentheses are used to combine hits that include specific words with those that only include one word from a list.

When a radio station broadcasts a live sporting event over the Web, what technology are they using?

To what does the term, traffic, refer to when used in conjunction with the Internet?

All social networking sites require friends to confirm a friendship.

To find a webpage, the user of a search engine would simply enter a word or phrase in the resource's text box. What is the term for that phrase?