Exam 2: Technology Infrastructure: the Internet and the World Wide Web

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E-mail was born in 1972 when a researcher wrote a program that could send and receive messages over the Defense Department network.

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The most important parts of a Web page are the graphics, photographs, and small programs that run in the Web browser.

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HTML was developed by _____.

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The leftmost part of a domain name is called a top-level domain (TLD).

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Public networks, private networks, and VPNs are independent of organizational boundaries.

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_____ determine how a sending device indicates that it has finished sending a message and how the receiving device indicates that it has received the message.

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Post Office Protocol (POP) allows the user to view only the header and the e-mail sender's name before deciding to download the entire message.

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What are the advantages of Bluetooth technology?

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_____ is a connection that uses public networks and their protocols to send data using a technology called IP tunneling.

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Virtual private network software must be installed on the computers at both ends of a transmission.

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The combination of a protocol name and a domain name is called a(n) _____.

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In HTML, hyperlinks are created using the HTML _____ tag.

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A(n) _____ is any technology that allows people to connect computers to each other.

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The Semantic Web project envisions words on Web pages being tagged with their meanings.

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_____ is the amount of data that can travel through a communication medium per unit of time.

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In HTML, the text elements that are related to each another are called _____ elements.

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A _____ is a collection of rules for formatting, ordering, and error checking data sent across a network.

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_____ tags convey the meaning (the semantics) of the information included within them.

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A group of network research scientists from nearly 200 universities and a number of major corporations joined together in 1996 to recapture the original enthusiasm of the ARPANET and created an advanced research network called _____.

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In 2014 the number of mobile phones was greater than the planet's population

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