Exam 4: The Internet and World Wide Web

Sometimes Web applications can be integrated into a ____, a single application that combines different Web applications, to offer a greater value to users.

A(n) ____________________ is a valuable tool that enables you to find information on the Web by specifying words that are key to a topic of interest.

____ Web pages are those that simply present unchanging information.

____________________ networks do not utilize a central server but facilitate communications directly between clients.

Network specialists find it useful to use a detailed, seven-layer model called the Open System ____ (OSI) model.

The Internet ____, the main Internet pathways and connections, is made up of the many national and international communication networks that are owned by major telecom companies.

A 1970 pre-Web milestone was when the first cross-country link was installed by ____ to connect networks across the country.

A slightly more structured version of HTML, called ____, is designed to integrate with XML code.

An e-mail attachment is typically a(n) binary file, such as an image file, Word document, music file, or spreadsheet, that travels along with an e-mail message but is not part of the e-mail ASCII text message itself. _________________________

The final portion of the domain name, .com, .edu, and so on, is called the low-level domain (LLD).

Because people are more comfortable dealing with names than numbers, IP addresses are assigned associated English names called ____ names.

Microsoft has created an alternative to JavaScript for use in Internet Explorer called ActiveX.

____________________ (smiley faces) combine keyboard characters to create a sideways facial expression.

A 1991 pre-Web milestone was when the ____ Internet Exchange (CIX) Association was established to allow businesses to connect to the Internet.

Torrenting involves browsing the Web to find a file of interest, and then employing a BitTorrent client to download the file. _________________________

____________________ communication allows participants to leave messages for each other to be read, heard, or watched, and responded to at the recipient's convenience.

The term brainstorming session refers to ____ communication where participants bounce ideas off each other in order to arrive at optimal solutions.

In asynchronous communication, people communicate in real time, exchanging thoughts in a flowing conversation. _________________________

An HTML bookmark is a specific command inside angle brackets (< >) that tells a Web browser how to display items on a page. _________________________

Nick is taking a vacation to Hawaii and is using the Internet to research places to stay and attractions. -As he is searching the Internet, Nick remembers a friend mentioning a beautiful beach called Aloha Sunset Cliffs. If he wants to find information on this specific phrase, he would enter ____.