Exam 2: Communications Networks the Internet and the World Wide Web

Adding an article to a newsgroup is done through a process called ____.

A(n) ____________________ is regional or national access provider.

Unlike the network in the accompanying figure, a(n) ____ covers a large geographical region.

Using a(n) ____ program, messages can be created, sent, received, forwarded, stored, printed, and deleted.

The protocol used to define the process illustrated in the accompanying figure on the Internet is a communications protocol known as ____________________.

____ is/are the appearance of motion created by displaying a series of still images in rapid sequence.

The text version of a computer address is called a domain name.

A VR world is an entire 3-D site containing infinite space and depth.

A search ____ is a specific type of search tool that finds Web sites, Web pages, and Internet files that match one or more keywords you enter.

____ is a popular software program used to manage many educational mailing lists.

A(n) ____________________ is a program that interprets HTML and displays Web pages and enables users to link to other Web pages and Web sites.

Individual user accounts for Internet access vary from about ____ per month for high-speed access.

Modified Multiple Choice A(n) ____ is a real-time communication.

The world's largest network is the Web , as shown in the accompanying figure. _________________________

A ____ LAN is a LAN that uses media such as radio waves rather than wires.

A(n) ____ covers a limited geographical region such as a school.

____ signals like those shown in the accompanying figure are individual electrical pulses that a computer uses to represent data.

Simple ____ applications consist of individual sound files that are available for downloading to a computer.

Today, more than one billion users around the world connect to the Internet for a variety of reasons. List and describe some of the possible uses of the Internet.

A(n) ____________________ is a high-speed network that connects regional and local networks to the Internet.