Exam 7: Computer Networks, The Internet, and the World Wide Web

What is IPv6?

____ is a general term applied to any use of computers and networking to support the paperless exchange of goods, information, and services in the commercial sector.

____ is the ability to share physical resources, such as a printer or storage device, as well as logical resources, such as software and information.

A single Web page is identified by a symbolic string called a(n) protocol. _________________________

The World Wide Web was completed and made available to all researchers at CERN in May 1982, the date that marks the birth of the Web.

____ provides a way to move files around the network quickly and easily.

Define a protocol in the context of networking.

Why were WANs first studied?

In the early 1980s, TCP/IP was used only in the United States.

A modem modulates a standard analog signal called a ____ wave so that it encodes binary information.

A(n) ____ is a set of independent computer systems connected by telecommunication links for the purpose of sharing information and resources.

A ____ makes internetwork connections and provides routing between different WANs.

In the early days of networking, the most common way to transmit data was via ____, dial-up telephone lines.

Provide three reasons why e-mail rapidly became the most popular application of networks.

In the commercial and office environment, the most widely used broadband technology is ____.

While WiMAX is great for communicating with a nearby router, its transmission limit means it cannot provide mobile Internet access from a car or outdoor site far from any base station. _________________________

Explain in detail what a WAN is and how it differs from a LAN in terms of its unit of transmission.

____ is a software package that allows users to log on remotely to another computer and use it as though it were their own local machine.

A digital subscriber line is always symmetric, which means that it has the same transmission speed in the download direction as in the upload direction.

Explain at length what spam is, why it has become a significant problem, and what a spam filter is.