Exam 2: The Internet

What is the term for a combination of user name and domain name that identifies a user so he or she can receive Internet email?

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

Which of the following is a collection of related webpages and associated items, such as documents and pictures, stored on a web server?

For which of the following to work must both parties be online at the same time, and the receiver of a message be willing to accept messages?

What is the term for the transmission of messages and files via a computer network?

Which of the following allows users to have multiple home pages that automatically display when the browser runs?

What is the term for an electronic document on the web that can contain text, graphics, animation, audio (sound), and video?

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

The Internet has its roots in a network that became functional in 1969, linking scientific and academic researchers across the United States. What was the name of that network?

An Internet connection is not necessary for participating in e-commerce.

Which of the following is equal to approximately one million characters?

Which of the following is the development and maintenance of webpages?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT To what does the term, blogosphere, refer?

Who is the creator of the World Wide Web?

Many public locations, such as airports, hotels, schools, shopping malls, and coffee shops, are hotspots that provide Wi-Fi Internet connections to users with mobile computers or devices.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You are thinking about no longer using the default browser for your Mac and instead switching to a new one. Which browser will you no longer be using if you do this?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following is NOT a graphics format used on the web?

The asterisk search engine operator allows the substitution of characters in place of the asterisk.

A(n) ____________________ name is the text-based name that corresponds to the IP address of a server that hosts a website.

Which of the following terms refers to any application that combines text with graphics, animation, audio, video, and/or virtual reality?