Exam 4: The Internet and World Wide Web

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Catalog of sites collected and organized by people rather than automated crawlers

Web ____ are Web pages that are designed to act as entry points to the Web.

Special-interest groups, called ____________________, create online communities for discussing topic-related issues via e-mail.

A data ____________________ is a small group of bytes that includes the data being sent and a header containing information about the data, such as its destination, origin, size, and identification number.

A computer ____________________ is a collection of computing devices connected to shared resources such as files, software, processors, storage, and printers.

Maura is 10 years old and is starting to exchange e-mails with her older sister, Suzanne, who is away at college. -In one of her first e-mails, Maura includes an emoticon meaning that she is "Really happy!" The emoticon was ____.

____ has been adopted by Microsoft in its Office suite to standardize data descriptions across applications.

Today's most popular Web sites are ____, providing users with an interactive experience tailored to the individual.

The protocol of the Web is called Hypertext ____________________ Protocol and controls communication between Web clients and servers.

____ computers makes a service request from another program which provides the service.

An IP address is a unique ____ identifier for Internet hosts.

There are ____ of privately owned networks around the world.

The Internet uses the Domain Name System to translate domain names into IP addresses. _________________________

The protocols for the Internet are the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

The primary language that is used to specify the formatting of a Web page is called Hypertext ____________________ Language.

____-authoring software is similar to a word processor and allows you to create HTML documents.

An offshoot of Internet2 that some call Internet3, but is officially named the National LambdaRail (NLR), is a cross-country, high-speed, fiber-optic network dedicated to research in high-speed networking applications.

A ____ connection is a low-speed Internet service that utilizes the customer's phone line for data transfer rates as high as 56 kilobits per second (Kbps).

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Software used to request Web pages from Web servers

Hypermedia is text that acts as a link. _________________________