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Package Title: Reading Questions Chapter 6
Course Title: Rainer IIS 5e
Chapter Number: 6
Question type: Multiple-Choice
1) Which of the following are advantages of computer networks?
a) They enable organizations to be more flexible.
b) They enable companies to share hardware, computer applications, and data.
c) They enable geographically dispersed employees to work together.
d) They provide a critical link between businesses and their customers.
e) All of the above.
2) Voice and data communication networks are becoming more expensive.
3) Place the different types of computer networks in size order, ranging from smallest to largest.
a) PAN-MAN-WAN-LAN
b) PAN-LAN-MAN-WAN
c) PAN-MAN-LAN-WAN
d) LAN-PAN-MAN-WAN
4) __________ are high speed central networks to which multiple smaller networks connect
a) Local area networks
b) Routers
c) Corporate backbone networks
d) Network servers
5) Digital signals have two parameters, amplitude and frequency.
6) Which wireline communication has the highest security?
a) Twisted-pair wire
b) Coaxial cable
c) Fiber-optic cable
d) All of the wireline communications channels listed have good security and are difficult to tap.
7) Which transmission technology utilizes existing telephone lines?
a) DSL
b) ATM
c) SONET
d) T-carrier systems
8) Which of the following is not a basic function of transmission control protocol?
a) managing the movements of packets between computers
b) sequencing the transfer of packets
c) analyzing the packets for size
d) acknowledging that packets have been transferred
9) File sharing is a type of peer-to-peer processing.
10) The Internet is managed by a central agency which bears all the cost and responsibility.
11) If broadband is not available in your area, which fo the following Internet connection
methods would allow you to connect to the Internet?
a) Cable Modem
b) DSL
c) Satellite
d) You would able to connect using any of these methods.
12) Where in a domain name do you find the top-level domain (TLD)?
a) all the way to the right
b) all the way to the left
c) a TLD is not found within the domain name
13) A browser is used to prevent web surfing.
14) _____ portals support communities such as hobby groups or a political party.
a) Industrywide
b) Personal
c) Affinity
d) Corporate
e) Commercial
15) Many organizations have implemented corporate portals for which of the following reasons?
a) to cut costs
b) to free up time for busy managers
c) to improve profitability
d) to offer customers self-service opportunities
e) all of the above
16) With _____, phone calls are treated as just another kind of data.
a) voice over IP
b) plain old telephone service
c) chat rooms
d) teleconference
e) internet relay chat
17) Workflow, groupware, and telepresence systems are examples of which network application?
a) Discovery
b) Communications
c) Collaboration
d) Web services
e) None of the above
