Exam 6: Telecommunications and Networks

Skype software allows telephone conversations through a PC and over the Internet instead of a separate phone connection.

Today, ordinary telephone wire is the least used medium for telecommunications.

The five basic categories of components in a telecommunications network include:

Booking a reservation over the Internet costs an airline about 50 percent less than booking the same reservation over the telephone.

To communicate over a network, each PC usually has a circuit board called a _______________.

An IP address is expressed as four decimal numbers separated by periods, such as 127.154.95.6.

Wi-Fi is faster and less expensive than Standard Ethernet and other common wire-based LAN technologies.

Programming that serves to "glue together" or mediate between two separate, and usually already existing, programs is known as _______________.

Intranets seldom have much impact on communications and collaboration within an enterprise.

Fiber optics uses cables consisting of one or more hair-thin filaments of __________ fiber wrapped in a protective jacket.

The WAP standard specifies how Web pages in HTML and XML are translated into a wireless markup language (WML) by __________ software.