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32) The ________ is a system of interlinked documents on the Internet, or a graphical user
interface to the Internet that provides users with a simple, consistent interface to access a wide
variety of information.
A) private branch exchange
B) World Wide Web
C) point to point protocol
D) Media Access Control Address
E) parameter random access memory
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
33) A ________ is a software application that can be used to locate and display Web pages,
including text, graphics, and multimedia content.
A) Webcam
B) keylogger
C) proxy server
D) Web browser
E) Webmaster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
34) A hypertext document is otherwise known as a ________.
A) Web page
B) Web host
C) Web ring
D) Webmaster
E) Web consortium
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
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35) Which of the following features of the Web contains not only information but also references
or links to other documents?
A) proxy server
B) Web ring
C) hypertext
D) codec
E) domain name
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
36) The standard method of specifying the format of Web pages is called ________.
A) Structured Query Language (SQL)
B) Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL)
C) Extensible Markup Language (XML)
D) Assembly Language (AL)
E) Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
37) With regard to the World Wide Web, Web pages are stored on ________.
A) Web consoles
B) Web rings
C) Web consortiums
D) Web servers
E) Web hosts
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
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38) The ".com" suffix in a uniform resource locater is reserved for ________.
A) non-profit organizations
B) commercial organizations
C) network organizations
D) government entities
E) educational organizations
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
39) Web servers process user requests for pages using the ________.
A) Hypertext Transfer Protocol
B) TOC Protocol
C) Address Resolution Protocol
D) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
E) Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
40) Which of the following statements is true about a Uniform Resource Locator?
A) It is used to locate specific information in a Web page.
B) It is used to identify and locate a particular Web page.
C) It is a protocol that helps Web servers store Web pages.
D) It is a standard method for specifying the format of Web pages.
E) It is a software application used to display the features of a Web page.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
41) The suffix ".org" is reserved for ________.
A) governmental entities
B) commercial organizations
C) network organizations
D) educational institutions
E) non-profit organizations
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
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42) Which of the following is likely to have the suffix ".com" after the domain name in its URL?
A) UNICEF
B) The Federal Reserve
C) Microsoft
D) The World Wide Fund for Nature
E) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Application
43) Which of the following is likely to have the suffix ".org" after the domain name in its URL?
A) The Red Cross Society
B) Starbucks
C) The Federal Bureau of Investigation
D) McDonalds
E) Harvard Business School
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Application
44) Which of the following is likely to have the suffix ".edu" after the domain name in its URL?
A) Yahoo!
B) UNICEF
C) The Federal Reserve
D) Harvard Business School
E) America Online
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Application
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45) In a URL, the ________ is the particular Web server or group of Web servers (if it is a larger
Web site) that will respond to the Web request.
A) domain name
B) host name
C) client name
D) top-level domain name
E) port name
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
46) Which of the following is the host name in the URL "labs.google.co.in/jack carver"?
A) labs
B) google
C) co
D) in
E) jack carver
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Application
47) Which of the following statements is true about an IP address?
A) The format of an IP address is a 64-bit numeric address.
B) It is written as eight numbers separated by periods.
C) Each number separated by periods can have any number between 0 and 999.
D) It can be used to navigate to particular Web addresses.
E) It is written as a number with a period at the end.
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
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48) The protocol used by the Internet is called the ________.
A) Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
B) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
C) Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
D) Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
E) TOC protocol
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
49) A company's ________ secures proprietary information stored within the corporate local area
network and/or wide area network so that the information can be viewed only by authorized
users.
A) Web ring
B) static Web site
C) firewall
D) proxy server
E) Web page
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
50) Most companies allow their employees to use ________ networks to connect to the
company's intranet while on the road or working from home.
A) near-me area
B) metropolitan area
C) virtual private
D) body sensor
E) storage area
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
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51) Data centers managed by a third party that rents out space to multiple organizational
customers are known as ________.
A) collocation facilities
B) multi-bay stations
C) serial port facilities
D) data ease facilities
E) datahub stations
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
52) A supercomputer is primarily used as the main, central computing system for major
corporations.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
53) Workstations are optimized for access by many concurrent users and therefore have more
advanced microprocessors, more memory, a larger cache, and more disk storage than single-user
computers.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
54) The application software used for various business processes can directly interact with the
various types of computer hardware.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
55) Networking hardware and software facilitate the interconnection of different computers,
enabling collaboration within organizations, across organizations, and literally around the world.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
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56) Transmission media refers to the physical pathway used to carry network information.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
57) The easiest way to understand computer networking is through the human communication
model.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
58) The fundamental information units of computers are called relays.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
59) The name "Internet" is derived from the concept of wireless networking.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
60) The format of an IP address is a 32-bit numeric address written as four numbers separated by
periods.
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
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61) Describe the different classes of computers.
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
62) Briefly describe system software.
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
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63) List and explain the different components of a network.
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
64) Why aren't IP addresses normally used to navigate Web addresses instead of domain names?
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.2: Describe the essential components of an organization's IS infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
65) Which of the following occurred in the 1946-1958 generation of computing?
A) The interpersonal computing era ended and the internetworking era began.
B) The internetworking era ended.
C) The mainframe era began.
D) The mainframe era ended and the personal computer era began.
E) The personal computer era ended and the interpersonal computing era began.
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Obj.: 3.3: Discuss managerial issues associated with managing an organization's IS
infrastructure.
Classification: Concept
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