Deck 1: The Web Becomes 2.0

Question 1

____ is a Web site for uploading and storing digital photographs.

A) Facebook
B) Flickr
C) YouTube
D) Wikipedia

Answer 1

Flickr

Question 2

Web 2.0 sites rely upon the fact that many people will visit them and provide new ____ that keeps them fresh.

A) content
B) videos
C) programs
D) scripts

Answer 2

content

Question 3

Founded in ____, Yahoo! is an Internet portal and service provider and one of the earliest and most successful Internet start-up companies.

A) 1985
B) 1990
C) 1995
D) 2000

Answer 3

1995

Question 4

Yahoo! offers more than a search engine and ___.

A) Web 2.0 site
B) site
C) directory
D) application

Question 5

-The site in the accompanying figure displays a list of services that you can add to ____.

A) saved content
B) My Received Files
C) My Web Sites
D) your Favorites list

Question 6

Broadband connections provide greater ____, the speed at which information travels over the Internet.

A) DSL
B) modulation
C) multiplexing
D) bandwidth

Question 7

The ____ Web browser was the first graphical interface to the World Wide Web.

A) Explorer
B) Netscape
C) Mosaic
D) Opera

Question 8

Chrome uses the address bar for entering either a URL or a ____.

A) favorite site
B) directory item
C) historical entry
D) search term

Question 9

The quality of an article on ____ may improve as many different people add their own contributions to it or discuss what would make it better.

A) YouTube
B) Flickr
C) Yahoo
D) Wikipedia

Question 10

-In the accompanying figure, ____ checks to make sure that the login name you want has not been claimed by another user.

A) check availability
B) perform checksum
C) check digit
D) check strength

Question 11

-Although many people use the terms World Wide Web and ____ interchangeably, there is a difference, as shown in the accompanying figure.

A) browser
B) social networking
C) Internet
D) Web

Question 12

A Web server processes requests for Web pages sent over the Internet from a ____.

A) Web site
B) Web page
C) Web database
D) Web client

Question 13

A blog application receives the data from the database server and assembles it into the blog's ____.

A) Web page
B) Web browser
C) Web client
D) Web server

Question 14

Google Maps uses ____ to allow the user to reposition a map or zoom in and out by dragging the map or maneuvering the scroll bar.

A) Dreamweaver
B) Silverlight
C) AJAX
D) Flash

Question 15

Predictive look-ahead, or ____, provides suggestions of valid responses based on letters that a user enters in a text box.

A) RemoteAssistance
B) Search-based assistance
C) AutoComplete
D) Context-Sensitive help

Question 16

Facebook has grown to become an online directory where people of all ages turn to find long-lost friends.

Question 17

Gmail is a client e-mail application.

Question 18

The latest Web sites are often a collection of hyperlinks to other resources on the World Wide Web.

Question 19

The My Yahoo! portal page allows users to customize the location and content of each region on the page.

Question 20

-In the accompanying figure, the site has a control to customize the page layout by moving the news block to the top.

Question 21

Personal computers first connected to the Internet through DSL.

Question 22

Many companies have invested in laying fiber-optic cables across the ocean, resulting in a truly global Internet.

Question 23

The Internet Explorer browser became popular when Microsoft distributed it as part of Windows XP.

Question 24

To simplify the problem of having multiple browser windows open at the same time, tabbed browsing became a common interface element.

Question 25

With Web 2.0, data is stored separately from instructions for how the data should be displayed so that content can be accessible from a variety of Internet-enabled devices.

Question 26

-Password strength, shown in the accompanying figure, is a measure of how well a password resists being discovered.

Question 27

Web applications, hosted on a Web server, access data stored in a database client available on the World Wide Web.

Question 28

Every time that a client sends a request to the Web server, the server responds with the entire Web page.

Question 29

A use of AJAX employed by many Web sites is to limit the number of appropriate choices based on a user's input.

Question 30

Viddler uses an AJAX plug-in to access a Webcam and microphone in order to broadcast or record video on the Web.

Question 31

Wikipedia is a collaborative online ____________________ that relies on its contributors to write, review, and update the millions of articles it contains.

Question 32

The fact that users of Web 2.0 sites can contribute to their ____________________ makes popular Web sites today very different from early Web sites.

Question 33

Because a Web browser is not the only device through which users will access Yahoo!, Yahoo! offers a(n) ____________________ version for use on cell phones.

Question 34

With a dial-up Internet connection, a home telephone line connects to a(n) ____________________, tying up the home phone while online.

Question 35

In the 1990s, companies known as dot-coms established themselves by registering a(n) ____________________ name with a .com suffix.

Question 36

In order for Web sites to reach the maximum number of people, they have to be able to be displayed by as many different Web ____________________ as possible.

Question 37

Chrome combines the address bar and the ____________________ bar.

Question 38

Web 2.0 is characterized by fully featured ____________________ that run within the browser and offer rich user experiences.

Question 39

-In the accompanying figure, ____________________ indicates that the user's chosen password contains a mix of letters, numbers, and keyboard symbols.

Question 40

An environment that supports creating and running software applications is known as a computing ____________________.

Question 41

Web 2.0 is often referred to as a(n) ____________________ or a database-backed Web because Web-based applications read from or write to a database when they access or update content.

Question 42

Web sites, including Web 2.0 sites, rely on online ____________________, from which the applications access and process the data to display.

Question 43

AJAX is often used to facilitate user interactions, such as offering typing suggestions as a user enters data in text boxes on a(n) ________ in a Web page.

Question 44

A(n) ____________________ technique is often implemented on search engines to help the user decide on a search term.

Question 45

A browser plug-in is a software component that enables dynamic, animated display and functionality within a Web ____________________.