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

Companies known as _____ sell Internet access rights directly to larger customers and indirectly to smaller firms and individuals through other companies, called ISPs.

IPv6 uses a _____ number for addresses.

One broadband option is a higher grade of telephone service using a DSL modem

The USENET was the earliest of the networks that eventually combined to become what we now call the Internet.

At a technological level, the Web is nothing more than software that runs on computers that are connected to the Internet.

The 32-bit number used to identify computers connected to the Internet is known as the _____.

A(n) _____ is a set of standards that defines, in detail, the relationships among resource description framework (RDF) standards and specific extensible markup language (XML) tags within a particular knowledge domain.

A _____ structure resembles an inverted tree in which the root is at the top and the branches are below it.

A network of computers that are located in the same building is called a wide area network.

_____ are sets of words that are assigned to specific IP addresses.

A computer network which uses a specific set of rules and connects networks all over the world to each other is called the _____.

_____ uses paired start and stop tags in much the same way as database software defines a record structure.

The set of rules for delivering Web page files over the Internet is in a protocol called the _____.

The computers that decide how best to forward each packet from one network to another are called _____.

Internet _____ are computers that are directly connected to the Internet.

The _____ in TCP/IP specifies the addressing details for each packet, labeling each with the packet's origination and destination addresses.

A device that transmits network packets between Wi-Fi equipped computers and other devices within range is a __________

Describe the process of routing packets in a network.

The subset of the Internet that includes computers and sensors connected to each other for communication and automatic transaction processing is called the _____.

IP addresses appear as five decimal numbers separated by periods.