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1. Networks of computers and the Internet that connects them to each other form the basic technological structure that
underlies virtually all electronic commerce.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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2. The USENET was the earliest of the networks that eventually combined to become what we now call the Internet.
a.
True
b.
False
False
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3. E-mail was born in 1972 when a researcher wrote a program that could send and receive messages over the Defense
Department network.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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4. The first e-mail mailing lists appeared on military and education research networks.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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5. A network of computers that are located in the same building is called a wide area network.
a.
True
b.
False
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6. The Internet provides a high degree of security in its basic structure.
a.
True
b.
False
False
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7. Extranets were used to save money and increase efficiency by replacing traditional communication tools such as fax,
telephone, and overnight express document carriers.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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8. An intranet extends beyond the organization that created it.
a.
True
b.
False
False
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9. The word “virtual,” used as part of virtual private networks means that the network connection is permanent.
a.
True
b.
False
False
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10. Virtual private network software must be installed on the computers at both ends of a transmission.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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11. Public networks, private networks, and VPNs are independent of organizational boundaries.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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12. IP addresses appear as five decimal numbers separated by periods.
a.
True
b.
False
False
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13. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a common protocol used for sending and retrieving e-mail.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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14. Post Office Protocol (POP) allows the user to view only the header and the e-mail sender’s name before deciding to
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download the entire message.
a.
True
b.
False
False
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15. The Post Office Protocol (POP) provides support for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).
a.
True
b.
False
True
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16. At a technological level, the Web is nothing more than software that runs on computers that are connected to the
Internet.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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17. The Semantic Web project envisions words on Web pages being tagged with their meanings.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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18. An HTML document is similar to a word-processing document in that it specifies how a particular text element will
appear.
a.
True
b.
False
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19. The leftmost part of a domain name is called a top-level domain (TLD).
a.
True
b.
False
False
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20. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has the responsibility of managing domain
names and coordinating them with the IP address registrars.
a.
True
b.
False
21. The most important parts of a Web page are the graphics, photographs, and small programs that run in the Web
browser.
a.
True
b.
False
False
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22. SGML offers a system of marking up documents that is independent of any software application.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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23. The term “cascading” is used in cascading style sheets because designers can apply many style sheets to the same Web
page, one on top of the other.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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24. The higher the bandwidth, the faster the transmission of data through a communication medium.
a.
True
b.
False
True
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25. A hierarchical hyperlink structure resembles conventional paper documents in that the reader begins on the first page
and clicks the Next button to move to the next page in a serial fashion.
a.
True
b.
False
False
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26. 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
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27. Files and e-mail messages sent over the Internet are broken down into small pieces called _____.
a.
messages
b.
switches
c.
circuits
d.
packets
d
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28. The computers that decide how best to forward each packet from one network to another are called _____.
a.
switches
b.
bridges
c.
routers
d.
repeaters
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29. The programs on gateway computers that determine the best path on which to send each packet contain rules called
_____.
a.
program profilers
b.
empirical algorithms
c.
software profilers
d.
routing algorithms
d
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30. A _____ is a permanent telephone connection between two points.
a.
dedicated line
b.
party line
c.
leased line
d.
local line
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31. _____ creates a private passageway through the public Internet that provides secure transmission from one computer
to another.
a.
IP tunneling
b.
Circuit switching
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c.
Encapsulation
d.
Subnetting
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32. _____ is a connection that uses public networks and their protocols to send data using a technology called IP
tunneling.
a.
A personal area network
b.
The Internet
c.
A virtual private network
d.
The World Wide Web
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33. A _____ is a collection of rules for formatting, ordering, and error checking data sent across a network.
a.
style sheet
b.
semantic
c.
protocol
d.
packet
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34. _____ determine how a 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.
Semantics
c.
Protocols
d.
Switches
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35. The 32-bit number used to identify computers connected to the Internet is known as the _____.
a.
IP address
b.
NSAP address
c.
MAC address
d.
OUI address
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36. _____ 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.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
b.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
c.
Interactive Mail Access Protocol (IMAP)
d.
Post Office Protocol (POP)
b
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37. In subnetting, a computer called a _____ device converts private IP addresses into normal IP addresses when it
forwards packets from those computers to the Internet.
a.
Network Address Translation (NAT)
b.
Network Interface Controller (NIC)
c.
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
d.
Data Circuit-Terminating (DCE)
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38. The combination of a protocol name and a domain name is called a(n) _____.
a.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
b.
Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI)
c.
Extensible Resource Descriptor Sequence (XRDS)
d.
Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI)
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39. IPv6 uses a _____ number for addresses.
a.
32-bit
b.
56-bit
c.
128-bit
d.
48-bit
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40. The purpose of a(n) _____ is to respond to requests for Web pages from Web clients.
a.
DNS server
b.
e-mail server
c.
Web server
d.
database server
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41. _____ 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.
SMTP
b.
TCP/IP
c.
MIME
d.
POP
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42. 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.
POP3
d.
TCP
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43. _____ 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
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44. A _____ structure resembles an inverted tree in which the root is at the top and the branches are below it.
a.
parabolic hyperlink
b.
hierarchical hyperlink
c.
rooted hyperlink
d.
linear hyperlink
b
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45. A(n) _____ has a hypertext reference (HREF) property, which specifies the remote or local document’s address.
a.
closing tag
b.
paragraph tag
c.
opening tag
d.
bold tag
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46. HTML was developed by _____.
a.
Robert Kahn
b.
Vinton Cerf
c.
Ted Nelson
d.
Tim Berners-Lee
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47. _____ was the first Web browser that became widely available for personal computers.
a.
Mosaic
b.
Netscape
c.
Internet Explorer
d.
CompuServe
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48. _____ are sets of words that are assigned to specific IP addresses.
a.
Domain names
b.
URLs
c.
Octets
d.
Headers
49. 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
b
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50. In HTML, hyperlinks are created using the HTML _____ tag.
a.
head
b.
anchor
c.
title
d.
opening
b
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51. A(n) _____ is any technology that allows people to connect computers to each other.
computer network
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52. A computer network which uses a specific set of rules and connects networks all over the world to each other is called
the _____.
Internet
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53. _____ is a subset of the computers on the Internet that are connected to one another in a specific way that makes them
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and their contents easily accessible to each other.
54. A(n) _____ is an e-mail address that forwards any message it receives to any user who has subscribed to the list.
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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.
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56. Usenet survives on the Internet today, with more than 1000 different topic areas that are called _____.
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57. Internet _____ are computers that are directly connected to the Internet.
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58. Companies known as _____ sell Internet access rights directly to larger customers and indirectly to smaller firms and
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individuals through other companies, called ISPs.
59. The subset of the Internet that includes computers and sensors connected to each other for communication and
automatic transaction processing is called the _____.
Internet of Things
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60. A(n) _____ is a set of standards that defines, in detail, the relationships among resource description framework (RDF)
standards and specific extensible markup language (XML) tags within a particular knowledge domain.
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61. A group of network research scientists from nearly 200 universities and a number of major corporations joined
together in 1996 to recapture the original enthusiasm of the ARPANET and created an advanced research network called
_____.
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62. A(n) _____ is used when the Internet extends beyond the boundaries of an organization and includes networks of
other organizations.
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controls the reassembly of those packets into their original formats when they reach their destinations.
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64. The _____ in TCP/IP specifies the addressing details for each packet, labeling each with the packet’s origination and
destination addresses.
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65. The set of rules for delivering Web page files over the Internet is in a protocol called the _____.
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66. A(n) _____ is a computer that stores files written in HTML.
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67. A(n) _____ is a language that can be used to define other languages.
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68. HTML, XML, and XHTML have descended from the original _____ specification.
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69. In HTML, the text elements that are related to each another are called _____ elements.
70. 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.
71. A(n) _____ is a set of instructions that gives Web developers more control over the format of displayed pages.
72. _____ uses paired start and stop tags in much the same way as database software defines a record structure.
73. _____ tags convey the meaning (the semantics) of the information included within them.
74. _____ is the amount of data that can travel through a communication medium per unit of time.
75. _____ is a measure of the amount of information that can travel from a user to the Internet in a given amount of time.
76. Describe the process of routing packets in a network.
77. What is the difference between a public network and a private network?
78. Identify the four key rules for message handling.
79. Describe the two main protocols used by the Internet.
80. What are the advantages of Bluetooth technology?