Deck 10: The Internet and Law Enforcement

Question 1

Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) it coding language used to create most hypertext documents for use on the World-Wide-Web.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The Internet is the vast collection of interconnected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 60's and early 70's.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A Listserv is a popular automatic mailing list server. People sharing an interest may "subscribe"to a given discussion, and other subscribers' contributions to the thread are distributed to the entire subscriber base via e-mail.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A POP (Point of Presence) is used as a marketing term to described a Web site that is or intended to be the first place people see when using the Web. Typically a POP (Point of Presence) has a catalogue of web sites, a search engine, or both.

Question 5

Spam is also known as Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or Unsolicited Commercial Bulk Mail (UCBM).

Question 6

Search Engines are databases of web sites that use spiders or robots to search the web and catalog web pages and make it convenient for you to search the World Wide Web.

Question 7

Homepages are unique name that identifies an Internet site. Homepages always have at least two parts, which are separated by dots (for instance hitechcj.com). The part on the left is specific whereas the part on the right is more general.

Question 8

Cookies are small text files that are created by some Websites and stored on your hard drive.

Question 9

Boolean Logic which makes use of the logical operators AND, OR, and NOT to create additional sets is often used in searching computer databases.

Question 10

Package data and ________ are essentially all that is required for computers on the Internet to communicate.

A) an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
B) Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML)
C) Search Engines
D) Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

Question 11

The World Wide Web consists of cyperlocations created by people to exchange information. ________ can be commercial, government, academic, personal or non-profit.

A) Website
B) Organizations
C) Navigators
D) Publishers

Question 12

The physical location of a/an ________ is called a/an ________.

A) Internet Service Provider (ISP); Universal Resource Locator (URL)
B) Point of Presence (POP); Universal Resource Locator (URL)
C) Point of Presence (POP); Internet Service Provider (ISP
D) Internet Service Provider (ISP); Point of Presence (POP)

Question 13

Most people use one or two different types of ________ to explore or navigate the World Wide Web.

A) Home Pages
B) Domain Names
C) Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
D) Browsers

Question 14

Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML) uses ________ to tell our computers what we should see on our computer monitor.

A) Tags
B) Spiders
C) Cookies
D) Cues

Question 15

After ________ have completed their review of a Website, they return to the search engine owners and divulge the information.

A) list servants
B) webmasters
C) spiders
D) navigators

Question 16

A form of communication on the internet is ________. It has an advantage over other forms of Internet communication in that it is real-time.

A) internet relay chat
B) spam
C) listserv
D) e-mail

Question 17

________ forms of communication area hallmark of the Professional Policing Model.

A) impersonal
B) Two-way
C) Personal
D) One-way

Question 18

Many law enforcement agencies underestimate the value and cost of changing Website ________. Because it is what a Website says, or does, it should constantly change and that can be expensive and time consuming.

A) homepage
B) domain names
C) content
D) programming

Question 19

Some political jurisdictions, like the federal government, are using a single Website as a/an ________ to all other government services.

A) opening
B) doorway
C) portal
D) stairway

Question 20

Spider are computer robot programs, referred to sometimes as:

A) crawlers
B) knowbots
C) knowledge-bots"
D) all of the above

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT a way to increase Website traffic?

A) Change domain names frequently.
B) Exchange hyperlinks with other organization.
C) Develop a dynamic and well-thought out website.
D) Alert users when new and useful information has been posted to the website.

Question 22

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCPIP) is linked to which of the following concepts that make the Internet possible?

A) The access points (routers and gates) would keep information about the data passed between them.
B) If you data arrives at its destination corrupted, you would retransmit the data.
C) There is a central Internet control point.
D) Each network has the same design.

Question 23

Browsers are software that use graphic user interface to simplify which of the following?

A) domain names
B) e-mail
C) navigation
D) e-commerce

Question 24

What small piece of software saves information about the websites you have visited?

A) cookies
B) tags
C) spiders
D) meta tags

Question 25

Which of the following is a form of electronic monitoring?

A) Interception
B) Auditing
C) both A and B
D) none of the above

Question 26

Crimeweb is a listserv that generates email alerts to subscriber when a public safety agency makes notification of:

A) Homeland Security issue
B) Major Crime
C) Missing child or adult
D) all of the above

Question 27

Which of the following is a method of creating two-way web-based communication between the community and the police?

A) newsletters
B) Press releases
C) hyperlinks
D) feedback forms

Question 28

Which of the following is a benefit of e-government?

A) More efficient use of an employee's time
B) Increased website traffic
C) Increased public satisfaction
D) all of the above

Question 29

The incredibly huge collection of HTML documents existing on servers connected to the Internet. These documents use hyperlinks to connect to other documents, other servers, or to programs on either the local computer or the server, creating a big tangle of information that has become known as:

A) domain names
B) spiders
C) the World Wide Web
D) search engines