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

Question 1

A network of computers that are located close together-for example, in the same building-is called a local area network.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

VPN software must be installed on the computers at both ends of the transmission.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Internet provides a high degree of security in its basic structure.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Domain names are sets of words that are assigned to specific IP addresses.

Question 5

The "virtual" part of VPN means that the connection seems to be a temporary, internal network connection, but the connection is actually permanent.

Question 6

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

Question 7

IP addresses appear as five numbers separated by periods.

Question 8

IMAP is a newer e-mail protocol that performs the same basic functions as POP, but includes additional features.

Question 9

Although fax, telephone, e-mail, and overnight express carriers have been the main communications tools for business for many years, extranets can replace many of them at a lower cost.

Question 10

The technologies used (public networks, private networks, or VPNs)are independent of organizational boundaries.

Question 11

In 1989, the NSF permitted two commercial e-mail services, MCI Mail and CompuServe, to establish limited connections to the Internet for the sole purpose of exchanging e-mail transmissions with users of the Internet.

Question 12

SMTP is a common protocol used for sending and retrieving e-mail.

Question 13

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

Question 14

An HTML document is similar to a word-processing document in that it specifies how a particular text element will appear.

Question 15

The POP protocol provides support for MIME.

Question 16

The Internet Corporation for Actualized Names and Nuances has the responsibility of managing domain names and coordinating them with the IP address registrars.

Question 17

Networks of computers and the Internet that connects them to each other form the basic technological structure that underlies virtually all electronic commerce.

Question 18

The set of rules for delivering Web page files over the Internet is in a protocol called the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

Question 19

E-mail was born in 1972 when a researcher wrote a program that could send and receive messages over the Defense Department network.

Question 20

An intranet extends beyond the organization that created it.

Question 21

The term cascading is used because designers can apply many style sheets to the same Web page, one on top of the other.

Question 22

The higher the bandwidth, the faster data files travel and the faster Web pages appear on your screen.

Question 23

The combination of telephone lines and the closed switches that connect them to each other is called a ____.

A)LAN
B)WAN
C)circuit
D)pathway

Question 24

In networking applications, an 8-bit number is often called a(n)____.

A)octet
B)netbit
C)piconet
D)bit

Question 25

On a packet-switched network, files and e-mail messages are broken down into small pieces, called ____.

A)messages
B)pieces
C)circuits
D)packets

Question 26

IPv6 uses a ___ number for addresses.

A)32-bit
B)56-bit
C)128-bit
D)256-bit

Question 27

____ determine how the sending device indicates that it has finished sending a message, and how the receiving device indicates that it has received the message.

A)Routers
B)Bridges
C)Protocols
D)Adapters

Question 28

SGML offers a system of marking up documents that is independent of any software application.

Question 29

The purpose of a(n)____ is to respond to requests for Web pages from Web clients.

A)URL
B)e-mail
C)Web server
D)top-level domain

Question 30

Routers and the telecommunications lines connecting them are collectively referred to as ____.

A)backbone routers
B)Internet routers
C)an asynchronous backbone
D)the Internet backbone

Question 31

HTML is a meta language because users can create their own markup elements that extend the usefulness of XML.

Question 32

A ____ is a collection of rules for formatting, ordering, and error checking data sent across a network.

A)routing algorithm
B)backbone router
C)protocol
D)packet

Question 33

A(n)____ is like a separate, covered commuter lane on a highway (the Internet)in which passengers are protected from being seen by the vehicles traveling in the other lanes.

A)VPN
B)IP wrapper
C)extranet
D)IAP

Question 34

A computer called a ____ converts private IP addresses into normal IP address when it forwards packets from those computers to the Internet.

A)routing algorithm device
B)network address translation device
C)subnet translation device
D)private network device

Question 35

The ____ numbering system uses 16 characters.

A)hexadecimal
B)decimal
C)binary
D)ASCII

Question 36

Network engineers have devised a number of stopgap techniques to stretch the supply of IP addresses.One of the most popular techniques is ____.

A)subnetting
B)subletting
C)sub-blocking
D)piconetting

Question 37

A(n)____ does not extend beyond the boundaries of a particular organization.

A)Internet
B)extranet
C)intranet
D)ARPANET

Question 38

Asymmetric connections provide the same bandwidth for each direction.

Question 39

A(n)____ is a connection that uses public networks and their protocols to send data in a way that protects the data as well as a private network would, but at a lower cost.

A)public network
B)virtual public network
C)virtual private network
D)private network

Question 40

When packets leave a network to travel on the Internet, they must be translated into a standard format.____ usually perform this translation function.

A)Switches
B)Bridges
C)Routers
D)Routing algorithms

Question 41

____ specifies the format of a mail message and describes how mail is to be administered on the e-mail server and transmitted on the Internet.

A)SMTP
B)TCP/IP
C)MIME
D)POP

Question 42

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

Question 43

The early versions of ____ let Web page designers create text-based electronic documents with headings, title bar titles, bullets, lines, and ordered lists.

A)HTTP
B)HTML
C)SGML
D)XML

Question 44

A newer e-mail protocol that performs the same basic functions as POP, but includes additional features, is known as ____.

A)IMAP
B)SMTP
C)POPI
D)IPOP

Question 45

____________________ providers sell Internet access rights directly to larger customers and indirectly to smaller firms and individuals through other companies, called ISPs.

Question 46

____ is a set of rules for handling binary files, such as word-processing documents, spreadsheets, photos, or sound clips, that are attached to e-mail messages.

A)IMAP
B)MIME
C)SMTP
D)POP

Question 47

In HTML, hyperlinks are created using the HTML ____ tag.

A)head
B)anchor
C)title
D)ol

Question 48

The combination of the protocol name and the domain name is called the ____.

A)URT
B)URO
C)URL
D)HTTP

Question 49

A computer ____________________ is any technology that allows people to connect computers to each computer.

Question 50

____ lets users create and manipulate e-mail folders and individual e-mail messages while the messages are still on the e-mail server.

A)POP
B)SMTP
C)IMAP
D)MIME

Question 51

____ was the first Web browser that became widely available for personal computers.

A)Mosaic
B)Netscape
C)Internet Explorer
D)CompuServe

Question 52

Usenet survives on the Internet today, with more than 1000 different topic areas that are called ____________________.

Question 53

A(n)____________________ is an e-mail address that forwards any message it receives to any user subscribed to the list.

Question 54

The routers connected to the Internet backbone are sometimes called ____________________ routers.

Question 55

In 1979, a group of students and programmers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina started ____________________, which allows anyone who connects to the network to read and post articles on a variety of subjects.

Question 56

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

A)Domain names
B)URLs
C)Octets
D)Piconets

Question 57

HTML was developed by ____.

A)ARPANET
B)NSF
C)Ted Nelson
D)Tim Berners-Lee

Question 58

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

Question 59

The part of the Internet known as the ____________________ is a subset of the computers on the Internet that are connected to one other in a specific way that makes them and their contents easily accessible to each other.

Question 60

Programs apply their routing algorithms to information they have stored in routing tables or ____________________ tables.

Question 61

Upstream bandwidth is also called ____________________ bandwidth.

Question 62

In HTML, the text elements that are related to each another are called ____________________ elements.

Question 63

____________________ is the amount of data that can travel through a communication medium per unit of time.

Question 64

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

Question 65

What is the difference between a public network and a private network?

Question 66

A(n)____________________ is used when the internet extends beyond the boundaries of an organization.

Question 67

What are the advantages of Bluetooth technology?

Question 68

A(n)____________________ server is a computer that stores files written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Question 69

Identify the four key rules for message handling.

Question 70

An XML document is embedded within the ____________________ document.

Question 71

____________________ let designers define formatting styles that can be applied to multiple Web pages.

Question 72

____________________ tags do not specify how text appears on a Web page; the tags convey the meaning (the semantics)of the information included within them.

Question 73

A(n)____________________ is any computer network or telecommunications network that is available to the public.

Question 74

A(n)____________________ is a language that can be used to define other languages.

Question 75

A(n)____________________ hyperlink structure resembles conventional paper documents in that the reader begins on the first page and clicks a Next button to move to the next page in a serial fashion.

Question 76

The ____________________ Protocol controls the disassembly of a message or a file into packets before it is transmitted over the Internet, and it controls the reassembly of those packets into their original formats when they reach their destinations.

Question 77

What is the difference between TCP and IP?

Question 78

The ____________________ Protocol specifies the addressing details for each packet, labeling each with the packet's origination and destination addresses.

Question 79

HTML, XML, and XHTML have descended from the original ____________________ specification.

Question 80

As an individual packet travels from one network to another, the computers through which the packet travels determine the best route for getting the packet to its destination.Describe this process.