Exam 10: The Internet and Its Tools

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The original purpose of designing a nationwide data network in the 1960s was _____.

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What is a listerv? How does it work?

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An HTML Web page is made up of elements.

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The address of a Web site is formally known as its ______________________________.

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Each is considered an Internet tool except _____.

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What is the difference between a listserv and a newsgroup?

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is interpreted by a(n) ____________________, which displays the content based on the instructions contained in the HTML document.

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The Internet's ______________________________ is a database, organized as a hierarchy (or tree), containing the name of each site on the Internet and its corresponding IP number.

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_________________________ software , which reduces the size of the attachment by compressing the file, looks for patterns of characters in the file and substitutes a single symbol for a string of characters.

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The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) is to "resolve," or look up, a Web site's IP number when given its name.

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The Internet is not just one large computer network, but is an international network of computer networks.

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How search engines rank pages is unimportant to either the user or to those who own the Web pages.

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A _____ is an Internet tool that automatically copies incoming messages to all users who have signed up to be part of a group.

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The protocol that is used by the World Wide Web for transporting text and images is _____.

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In Microsoft Windows XP, a folder that contains compressed documents is called a _____ folder.

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Each country has a three-character entry in the top-level domain, such as USA for United States, ITL for Italy, and FRA for France.

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A device known as a _____ is the backbone of the Internet whose job is to send packets in the correct direction toward their destination.

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HTML tags are case insensitive.

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ARPANET was the first network to use packet switching.

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An ending HTML tag contains an asterisk (*) between the left angle bracket and the tag name.

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