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40) A LAN could be used to connect all of the following except:
A) all of the computers in a large building.
B) all of the devices within a 10-meter area.
C) all of the computers in a city.
D) all of the computers in a small office.
E) all of the computers on a college campus.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
41) Coaxial cable is similar to that used for cable television and consists of thickly insulated
copper wire.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
42) Fiber-optic cable is more expensive and harder to install than wire media.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
43) The number of cycles per second that can be sent through any telecommunications medium
is measured in kilobytes.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
44) In a large company today, you will often find an infrastructure that includes hundreds of
small LANs linked to each other as well as to corporate-wide networks.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
45) An analog signal is a discrete, binary waveform that transmits data coded into two discrete
states such as 1-bits and 0-bits.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
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46) Today, most Americans connect to the Internet through broadband connections at speeds up
to 15 Mbps.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
47) You have been hired by a small new web design firm to set up a network for its single office
location. The network is primarily needed for exchanging files, accessing and managing beta
websites on their web server, and connecting to the Internet. The firm hires many freelancers
who come into the office on an ad hoc basis and it does not have a lot of money to spend on
infrastructure. What type of network will you recommend?
AACSB: Analytical Thinking; Written and Oral Communication
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
48) What are the two types of signals used to communicate a message in a network and how are
they different? What device converts one type to the other type?
AACSB: Information Technology; Written and Oral Communication
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
49) What are some of the common types of physical transmission media and what differentiates
them from one another?
AACSB: Information Technology; Written and Oral Communication
LO: 7.2: What are the different types of networks?
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50) Which of the following is considered by many to be the defining Web 2.0 application?
A) Instant messaging
B) Email
C) Blogging
D) Social networking
E) Widgets
AACSB: Application of Knowledge
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
51) Which of the following enables multiple users to create and edit web documents?
A) Wiki
B) Blog
C) Social networking
D) Pinterest
E) RSS
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
52) The “Internet of Things” refers to:
A) the increasing focus on shopping as the major user activity on the Internet.
B) the microblogging trend, in which users exchange short text and pictures rather than longer
and more in-depth content and text.
C) the rise in mobile gaming.
D) the trend away from platform-independent web applications to mobile-device specific apps.
E) a vision of a pervasive web in which common objects are connected to and controlled over the
Internet.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
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53) What service converts IP addresses into more recognizable alphanumeric names?
A) HTML
B) DNS
C) IP
D) HTTP
E) URL
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
54) The child domain of the root is the:
A) top-level domain.
B) second-level domain.
C) host name.
D) domain extension.
E) base domain.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
55) In the domain name “http://myspace.blogging.com”, what are the root, top-level, second-
level, and third-level domains, respectively?
A) “http://”, myspace, blogging, .com
B) “http://”, .com, blogging, myspace
C) “http://”, blogging, .com
D) myspace, blogging, .com
E) .com, blogging, myspace
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
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56) Which organization helps define the overall structure of the Internet?
A) None (no one “owns” the Internet)
B) W3C
C) ICANN
D) IAB
E) HTTP
AACSB: Application of Knowledge
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
57) IPv6 was developed in order to:
A) update the packet transmission protocols for higher bandwidth.
B) create more IP addresses.
C) allow for different levels of service.
D) support Internet2.
E) support Web 3.0.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
58) Which of the following services enables logging on to one computer system and working on
another?
A) FTP
B) LISTSERV
C) Telnet
D) World Wide Web
E) T1 lines
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
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59) Instant messaging is a type of ________ service.
A) mobile
B) cellular
C) email
D) wireless
E) chat
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
60) ________ integrate(s) disparate channels for voice communications, data communications,
instant messaging, email, and electronic conferencing into a single experience.
A) Wireless networks
B) Intranets
C) Virtual private networks
D) Telnet
E) Unified communications
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
61) A VPN:
A) is an encrypted private network configured within a public network.
B) is more expensive than a dedicated network.
C) provides secure, encrypted communications using Telnet.
D) is an Internet-based service for delivering voice communications.
E) formats web pages with dynamic links to other documents.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
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62) Web browser software requests web pages from the Internet using which protocol?
A) URL
B) HTTP
C) DNS
D) HTML
E) FTP
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
63) Together, a protocol prefix, a domain name, a directory path, and a document name, are
called a(n):
A) uniform resource locator.
B) IP address.
C) third level domain.
D) root domain.
E) VPN.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
64) The most common web server today, controlling 65 percent of the market, is:
A) Microsoft IIS.
B) WebSTAR.
C) Apache HTTP Server.
D) Netscape Server.
E) IBM NetServer.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
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65) What technology allows people to have content pulled from websites and fed automatically
to their computers?
A) FTP
B) Newsgroups
C) HTTP
D) Bluetooth
E) RSS
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
66) The process of employing techniques to help a website achieve a higher ranking with the
major search engines is called:
A) VPN.
B) IAB.
C) SEM.
D) SEO.
E) LED.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
67) Which of the following statements is not true about search engines?
A) They are arguably the Internet’s “killer app.”
B) They have solved the problem of how users instantly find information on the Internet.
C) They are monetized almost exclusively by search engine marketing.
D) They emerged in the early 1990s as simple software programs.
E) There are hundreds of search engines vying for user attention, with no clear leader having yet
emerged.
AACSB: Application of Knowledge
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
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68) Which of the following is an example of the “visual web”?
A) Twitter
B) Blogger
C) Pinterest
D) Facebook
E) Google
AACSB: Application of Knowledge
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
69) Which process is used to protect transmitted data in a VPN?
A) Tunneling
B) PPP
C) VOIP
D) Packet switching
E) Hypertext
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
70) The advanced networking consortium representing more than 500 universities, businesses,
and government agencies is known as:
A) Internet2.
B) ICANN.
C) IAB.
D) W3C.
E) FCC.
AACSB: Information Technology
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?
71) Mobile search makes up approximately 10% of all Internet searches.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
LO: 7.3: How do the Internet and Internet technology work and how do they support
communication and e-business?