Fluency with Information Technology, 6e (Snyder)
Chapter 3 The Basics of Networking: Making the Connection
3.1 True/False Questions
1) In the mid-1990s, the Internet, long available to researchers, became generally available to the
public.
2) Asynchronous communication requires that both the sender and the receiver are active at the
same time.
3) Multicasting and point-to-point communication are equivalent terms.
4) The Internet is not fast enough to mimic synchronous communication.
5) Most interactions over the Internet use a protocol known as client/server interaction.
6) When files are placed on a server, the process is known as uploading.
7) The DNS translates your human-readable address into an IP number.
8) Internet communications are sent strictly through telephone lines.
9) Home computers typically link to the Internet via an ISP.
10) The World Wide Web and the Internet are the same.
11) When a computer is connected to the Internet via ISP for the first time, it is assigned an IP
that it keeps for the life of the computer.
12) The WWW is larger than the Internet.
13) Client/server relationships drive the WWW.
14) Once connected to a Web server, the connection remains in place until the client requests a
page from another server.
15) Each computer connected to the Internet is given its own unique Internet Protocol address.
16) The Internet supports point-to-point asynchronous communication.
17) URLs are always case sensitive.
18) The term “www” must be included when typing all Web addresses.
19) Intranet refers to a network that supports communication within an organization.
20) There is no direct connection between a client and a server structure.
21) To describe how a Web page should look, many pages use Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML).
22) Each client request to a server is discrete.
23) An example of a top-level domain is .edu.
24) A client computer remains connected to a web server while the page is displayed on the
screen.
25) Wireless network connections follow the 802.11 protocol.
7) Folders contain:
A) files
B) folders
C) both files and folders
D) neither files nor folders
Answer: C
Explanation: C) Folders can contain files and other folders. These folders can contain files and
other folders, and so on.
8) When a URL ends in a folder name instead of a file name, the server usually looks for a file
called:
A) dir.html
B) index.html
C) home
D) all of the above
Answer: B
Explanation: B) Without a specific file to look for, most servers go looking for the index.html
file.
9) In a directory hierarchy, folder names are separated by a:
A) slash (/)
B) backslash (\)
C) dot (.)
D) space
Answer: A
Explanation: A) They’re separated by a slash. Do not call it a forward slash. There is no such
thing.
10) Communication between one sender and many receivers is called:
A) broadcast communication
B) client/server communication
C) point-to-point communication
D) multicast communication
Answer: A
11) Getting files from a Web server is called:
A) uploading
B) downloading
C) client-based networking
D) multicasting
Answer: B
12) When a web browser (client) needs to get a web page to display, it connects to the server
A) only briefly, then displays the page after the transaction is complete.
B) when the page is visited, and stays connected until another page is visited.
C) when the first page located on that server is visited, and stays connected until a page from
some different server is visited.
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D) when the first page located at that server is visited, and stays connected until the browser is
closed.
Answer: A
13) The purpose of a cookie is to
A) assign an IP address to a computer when it boots.
B) help packets find the correct web server.
C) give the illusion of a continuous connection.
D) translate host names to IP addresses.
Answer: C
14) The packets which make up a web page
A) always take the designated path through the net which is determined when when the browser
first contacts the server.
B) travel as a group, so they take the same path through the net (though another page may take a
different one).
C) take the path through the network specified by DNS.
D) travel independently, and may take different paths through the network.
Answer: D
15) The main technology for local area networks is
A) DNS
B) Ethernet
C) TCP/IP
D) ISP
Answer: B
1) Points on a Web page that allow you to jump to other pages are called ________.
2) A directory is also known as a(n) ________.
3) The scheme that contains the files and folders on a system comprise the system’s ________.
4) When referring to file hierarchy trees, ________ in the hierarchy means into subfolders; that
is, toward the leaves.
5) The tree-like organization of folders and files on a computer forms the ________.
6) The symbol / is called a(n) ________ and it separates folders from files and other folders in a
directory hierarchy.
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7) When you go to a URL, and the server moves your browser to a different one, that is called
________.
8) A network of networks is a good description of the ________.
9) The anscestor network of the Internet was ________.
10) The ________ is the totality of all wires, fibers, switches, routers, satellite links, and other
hardware for transporting information between addressed computers.
11) A computer is considered a(n) ________ when it gets services from another computer.
12) A(n) ________ is a computer that provides services to another computer.
13) A telephone conversation is an example of ________ communication because both people in
the conversation must perform one of the two parts of the communication (talking or listening)
simultaneously.
14) The illusion of a continuous connection to a web browser can be accomplished using cookies
or ________.
15) Once a DNS server finds out the IP address for an authoritative name server, it saves it for
future reference. This is a form of _______.