Exam 4: The Internet and World Wide Web

Telecommuting is working from locations away from the office by using telecommunication technologies.

The industry sometimes calls more advanced Web content, such as video and interactive media, rich content.

Maura is 10 years old and is starting to exchange e-mails with her older sister, Suzanne, who is away at college. -Suzanne had never seen the "Really happy!" emoticon before -- so she sent one back to say she is confused. Her emoticon looked like ____.

The protocol portion of the Internet, where client software communicates requests to servers using the packet-switching rules of TCP/IP, is called the ____________________ layer.

Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a popular new set of technologies used to create many of the more recent programs delivered over the Web, such as Google Docs and Flickr's Photo Editor. _________________________

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Web pages that are designed to act as entry points to the Web

A(n) ____________________ is an element in an electronic document-a word, phrase, or image-that, when clicked, opens a related document.

Java is an object-oriented ____ that allows software engineers to create programs that run on any computer platform.

A ____ pre-Web milestone was when the ARPANET project was officially concluded, and "the Internet" was turned over to the public, to be managed by the Internet Society (ISOC).

Today's Web browsers allow Web servers to store small ____ files called cookies on your computer.

Today's Internet joins together networks of over ____ computers, or Internet hosts, to create the world's largest internetwork, supporting over 1.5 billion users.

The Internet is a(n) ____-switching network.

In 1957, computing was done primarily on large mainframe computers accessed from within an organization through a network of ____.

Web ____ refers to Web resources that allow average users to collaborate and contribute to Web content.

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol that allows users to share files by downloading pieces of a file from multiple sources

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Stores and delivers Web pages and other Web resources

A ____ Resource Locator acts as a Web page address, incorporating the domain name of the Web server and the location of the Web page file on the server.

Data is transported over the Internet in parcels. _________________________

A ____ line provides an always-on connection.

Although not yet widely offered, the power companies of the world are experimenting with broadband Internet over the power grids through technology called ____.