Deck 7: The Internet, Web, Intranets, and Extranets

Question 1

Billions of documents on the Web stored on millions of servers are connected to each other using hyperlinks.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a Web address that specifies the exact location of a Web page using letters and words that map to an IP address and location on the host.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The ancestor of the Internet was the ARPANET, a project started by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Cloud computing refers to a computing environment where software and storage are provided as an Internet service and accessed with a Web browser.

Question 5

Wikipedia captures the knowledge of tens of thousands of experts and access to its entries are tightly controlled so that its entries are always accurate and unbiased.

Question 6

Transmission Control Protocol is responsible for managing IP addresses and Internet domain names.

Question 7

A Web portal is a Web page that combines useful information and links and acts as an entry point to the Web complete with a search engine, subject directory, daily headlines, and other items of interest.

Question 8

A rich Internet application is software that has the functionality and complexity of traditional software, but runs in a Web browser and does not require local installation.

Question 9

Web plug-ins such as Adobe Flash and Real Player provide additional features to standard Web sites.

Question 10

The Internet organizes Internet resources throughout the world into a series of linked files, called pages, accessed and viewed using Web-based client software called Java.

Question 11

The ARPANET, ancestor of the Internet, was eventually broken into two networks: MILNET, which included all military sites, and a new, smaller network called the World Wide Web.

Question 12

Of all the countries, China has the most Internet users with nearly 400 million people.

Question 13

The Internet is truly international is scope, with users on every continent-except Antarctica.

Question 14

Cascading Style Sheets works hand in hand with HTML for designing groups of Web pages.

Question 15

The Internet routes data packets over the network backbone from router to router to reach their destinations.

Question 16

A spider is an automated program that follows all Web links in an attempt to catalog every Web page by topic. .

Question 17

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for managing IP addresses and operating Web sites.

Question 18

Social networking Web sites provide Web-based tools for users to share information about themselves with people on the Web and to find, meet, and converse with other members.

Question 19

The Internet Protocol assigns a 32-bit address to each computer to identify it on the Internet.

Question 20

Entering the words red*blue as the keywords for a search engine will be interepted as the words "red" and "blue" separated by one or more words.

Question 21

The Wikipedia Web site is both open source and open editing leading to an extremely high degree of accuracy in its postings.

Question 22

Twitter is a microblogging service.

Question 23

Vertical portals are pages that provide information and links for special interest groups.

Question 24

Data is broken into _____ to be transmitted over the Internet

A) packets
B) messages
C) bytes
D) bits

Question 25

The Internet will soon be upgraded to IPv6 which uses _____ addresses to provide for many more devices.

A) 32-bit
B) 64-bit
C) 128-bit
D) 256-bit

Question 26

Extranets connect people who are external to the organization.

Question 27

The ancestor of the Internet was _____.

A) MILNET
B) Abilene
C) Telnet
D) ARPANET

Question 28

The fiber-optic cables that span the globe over land and under sea make up the Internet _____.

A) infrastructure
B) backbone
C) transmission media
D) TCP/IP

Question 29

Domain names must adhere to strict rules. For example they must always have ____ parts, with each part separated by a dot (period).

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) at least three

Question 30

A meta search engine allows you to run a keyword search on several search engines at once.

Question 31

Is a network protocol that enables traffic to be routed among all the networks connected to the Internet.

A) ISO seven layer model
B) TCP
C) IP
D) Wi-Fi

Question 32

Content streaming is a means of transferring large media files over the Internet so that the data stream of voice and pictures plays more or less continuously as the file is being downloaded.

Question 33

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a protocol that allows users to log on to networks remotely over the Internet.

Question 34

A Web portal is a Web page that combines useful information and links and
acts as an entry point to the Web; portals typically include a search engine.

Question 35

A podcast is a video broadcast over the Internet.

Question 36

The country with the greatest number of Internet users is ______.

A) USA
B) India
C) Germany
D) China

Question 37

Workers have been fired for criticizing their employers on social networking Web sites.

Question 38

______ refers to a computing environment where software and storage are provided as an Internet service and accessed with a Web browser.

A) World Wide Web
B) Distributed computing
C) Client server computing
D) Cloud computing

Question 39

The _____ is responsible for managing IP addresses and Internet domain names.

A) United Nations
B) ICANN
C) FTC
D) none of the above

Question 40

A(n) _____ is a Web address that specific the exact location of a Web page using letters and words.

A) IP address
B) ICANN
C) HTML
D) IP address

Question 41

_____ is the standard page description language for Web pages.

A) Hypertext
B) Tags
C) IP addresses
D) HTML

Question 42

______ refers to itself as a decision engine rather than a search engine.

A) Yahoo!
B) Baidu
C) Google
D) Bing

Question 43

_____ is a valuable tool that enables you to find information on the Web by specifying words or phrases know as keywords, which are related to a topic of interest.

A) CSS
B) Web browser
C) Web portal
D) Search engine

Question 44

NET
B) XML
C) HTML
D) Java

Question 45

_____ is any organization that provides Internet access to people.

Question 46

The dominate search engine is _____.

A) Facebook
B) Baidu
C) Google
D) Yahoo!

Question 47

_____ is a markup language designed to transport and store data on the Web.

A)NET
B) XML
C) HTML
D) Java

Question 48

_____ is a new cross-country, high-speed (10 Gbps) fiber optic network dedicated to research in high-speed networking applications.

Question 49

_____ is a Web site that allows people to add or edit entries in the encyclopedia at any time.

A) Blog
B) Wiki
C) Browser
D) none of the above

Question 50

Java allows small programs, called ______, to be embedded with an HTML document.

A) programets
B) subroutines
C) applets
D) all of the above

Question 51

_____ are specially denoted text or graphics on a Web page, that, when clicked, open a Web page containing related content

A) HTML
B) Tags
C) Hyperlinks
D) IP addresses

Question 52

Sales tax for all Internet businesses could total more than ______.

A) $1 billion
B) $10 billion
C) $100 billion
D) $1 trillion

Question 53

______ consist of standards and tools that streamline and simplify communication among Web sites and that promise to revolutionize the way we develop and use the Web for business and personal purposes.

A) The TCP protocol
B) Web services
C) DARPANET
D) IP v6

Question 54

Messages on the Internet are typically sent through one or more _____ to reach its destination.

Question 55

Conducting classes over the Web with no physical class meetings is called _____.

A) social networking
B) distance education
C) electronic conferencing
D) podcasting

Question 56

_____ is NOT a Web programming language.

A) Java
B) JavaScript
C) Hypertext Preprocessor
D) COBOL

Question 57

A(n) _____ can be used in an enterprise to enable the sharing of information between employees, training for new employees, or customer support for products.

A) Web portal
B) wiki
C) Web analytics software
D) search engine optimization

Question 58

The ______ communications protocol enables computers to route communications traffic from one network to another as needed.

Question 59

A growing number of companies offer limited access to their private corporate network for selected customers and suppliers by use of a(n) ______

A) intranet
B) Internet
C) extranet
D) World Wide Web

Question 60

______ allows you to run keyword searches on several search engines at once.

A) Wikipedia
B) Meta search engine
C) Google
D) Facebook

Question 61

The ______ is a 64-bit number that identifies the computer on the Internet.

Question 62

Many of the computer activities traditionally provided through software installed on a PC can now be carried out using _____ applications in a Web browser without installing any software.

Question 63

The _____ is a Web address that specifies the exact location of a Web page using letters and words that map to an IP address and a location on the host.

Question 64

A(n) _____ is a Web page that combines useful information and links and acts as an entry point to the Web.

Question 65

______ cloud refers to service providers that offer their cloud-based services to the general public.

Question 66

______ Web sites provide members with a personal Web page and allow them to post photos and information about themselves.

Question 67

Web _____ such as Adobe Flash and Real Player, provide additional features to standard Web sites.

Question 68

Web ______ maintain Web servers, storage systems, and backup systems. They also provide e-commerce software when required.

Question 69

_____ is a markup language designed to transport and store data on the Web.

Question 70

The _____ is responsible for managing IP addresses and Internet domain names.

Question 71

Web application ______ have arisen to simplify Web Development by providing the foundational code for a profession interactive Web site.

Question 72

Using _____, Web users can jump between Web pages store on various Web servers - creating the illusion of interacting with one big computer.

Question 73

In addition to XML, three other components are used in Web service applications including SOAP, WSDL, and ______ used to register Web service applications. .

Question 74

A(n) _____ is a Web site that people can create and use to write about their observations, experiences, and opinions on a wide range of topics.

Question 75

The Web has evolved to ______ which enables people to not only obtain information from the Internet but to contribute information.

Question 76

Extensible Markup Language is the _____ language designed to transport and store data on the Web.

Question 77

www.cengage.com is an example of a _____ name that identifies the Internet host site.

Question 78

Conducting classes over the Web with no physical class meetings is called _____ and provides a convenient method for nontraditional students to attend college.

Question 79

HTML works hand in hand with another markup language called ______ to design groups of Web pages by defining font characteristics for a variety of page elements as well as how those elements are laid out on the Web page.

Question 80

_____ is an open source programming language that is popular for server-side application development and whose code can be directly embedded into HTML code and run on a Web server.