Deck 11: The Internet and Multimedia

Question 1

Which of the following is not something a multimedia developer can do to work within the constraints of bandwidth bottlenecks?

A) Compress data into Zip files before transmitting
B) Require users to download data repeatedly
C) Limit color depth of files to only what is necessary
D) Design low- and high-bandwidth paths

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Briefly explain the internetworking that enables you to type http://www.facebook.com into a browser and have the requested web page display on your personal computer.

Answer 2

The personal computer, or client, connects to the Internet through a server via a high-bandwidth telephone line, coaxial cable TV line, or wireless connection. A domain name server looks up the requested domain name and converts it into an IP address that becomes part of the data packet created by TCP. The IP then sends the packet to your personal computer. The browser displays the HTML code in the form of text and images.

Question 3

__________ provides rules for contacting, requesting, and sending documents encoded with the Hypertext Markup Language.

A) HTTP
B) HTML
C) ASCII
D) TCP

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Commercial use of the Internet was allowed in __________.

Question 5

Which of the following is a standard for interfacing external applications with information servers, such as HTTP or web servers?

A) CGI
B) TCL
C) VRML
D) CMS

Question 6

Which of the following is not a way to establish a physical data connection to the Internet?

A) Coaxial cable TV line
B) Wireless
C) High-bandwidth telephone line
D) DNS

Question 7

Some sounds can be __________ so multiple users can simultaneously listen to the same data without duplication across the Internet.

A) ultrasonic
B) optimized
C) multicast
D) tokenized

Question 8

Identify the protocol for the following URL: http://www.tayvaughan.com/writings/other/index.html.

A) HTML
B) TLD
C) HTTP
D) WWW

Question 9

The Internet began as a research network funded by which organization?

A) AARP
B) ARPA
C) AMA
D) AAA

Question 10

When a server receives a request, it is handled by a specific application called a __________ that responds to the request based on the protocol.

A) client
B) daemon
C) backbone
D) tag

Question 11

A(n) __________ connection is the most serious impediment to sending multimedia across the Internet.

Question 12

The Internet began as a research network funded by which of the following organizations in 1969?

A) National Aeronautics and Space Administration
B) National Science Foundation
C) U.S. Defense Department
D) Common Gateway Interface

Question 13

ICANN has approved plans for a major sale of new generic __________.

A) IP addresses
B) POPs
C) XMLs
D) top-level domains

Question 14

When a stream of data is sent over the Internet by your computer, it is first broken down into __________ by the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

Question 15

__________ are the apps that run on a user's personal computer to provide the interface for downloading and viewing documents and multimedia.

Question 16

When you type a URL into a web browser, your computer connects to a(n) __________ to obtain the requested web page.