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Laudon/Laudon/Brabston, Management Information Systems, Seventh Canadian Edition
Chapter 7 Telecommunications, the Internet, and
Wireless Technology
1) Telephone networks are fundamentally different from computer networks.
2) Wikis allow visitors to change or add to the original posted material.
3) An NOS must reside on a dedicated server computer in order to manage a network.
4) A hub is a networking device that connects network components and is used to filter and
forward data to specified destinations on the network.
5) In a client/server network, a network server provides every connected client with an address
so it can be found by others on the network.
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6) A computer network consists of at least three computers.
7) Central large mainframe computing has largely replaced client/server computing.
8) Circuit switching makes much more efficient use of the communications capacity of a
network than does packet switching.
9) Two computers using TCP/IP can communicate even if they are based on different
hardware and software platforms.
10) Coaxial cable is similar to that used for cable television and consists of thickly insulated
copper wire.
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11) Fiber-optic cable is more expensive and harder to install than wire media.
12) The number of cycles per second that can be sent through any telecommunications medium
is measured in kilobytes.
13) The Domain Name System (DNS) converts IP addresses to domain names.
14) VoIP technology delivers video information in digital form using packet switching.
15) Web 3.0 is an effort to add a layer of meaning to the existing Web in order to reduce the
amount of human involvement in searching for and processing Web information.
16) 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.
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17) TCP/IP was developed in the 1960s to enable university scientists to locate other computers
on the Internet.
18) Mobile search makes up 20% of all Internet searches.
19) RFID technology is being gradually replaced by less costly technologies such as WSNs.
20) Software-defined networking (SDN) is a new networking approach in which many of these
control functions are managed by one central program, which can run on inexpensive
commodity servers that are separate from the network devices themselves.
21) Client/server computing is a distributed computing model in which some of the processing
power is located within small, inexpensive client computers and resides literally on
desktops, laptops, or handheld devices.
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22) The Transport layer enables client application programs to access the other layers and
defines the protocols that applications use to exchange data.
23) The Application layer is responsible for providing the Application layer with
communication and packet services.
24) The Network Interface layer is responsible for addressing, routing, and packaging data
packets called IP datagrams.
25) The Internet layer is responsible for placing packets on and receiving them from the
network medium, which could be any networking technology.
26) A digital signal is a discrete, binary waveform, rather than a continuous waveform. Digital
signals communicate information as strings of two discrete states.
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27) A local area network (LAN) is designed to connect personal computers and other digital
devices within a half-mile or 500-metre radius.
28) A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a network that spans a metropolitan area, usually a
city and its major suburbs. Its geographic scope falls between a WAN and a LAN.
29) An Internet Protocol (IP) address, which currently is a 64-bit number represented by four
strings of numbers ranging from 0 to 255 separated by periods.
30) The device that acts as a connection point between computers and can filter and forward
data to a specified destination is called a(n)
A) hub.
B) switch.
C) router.
D) NIC.
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31) The Internet is based on which three key technologies?
A) TCP/IP, HTML, and HTTP
B) TCP/IP, HTTP, and packet switching
C) client/server computing, packet switching, and the development of communications
standards for linking networks and computers
D) client/server computing, packet switching, and HTTP
32) The method of slicing digital messages into parcels, transmitting them along different
communication paths, and reassembling them at their destinations is called
A) multiplexing.
B) packet switching.
C) packet routing.
D) ATM.
33) The telephone system is an example of a ________ network.
A) peer-to-peer
B) wireless
C) packet-switched
D) circuit-switched
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34) Which of the following is not a characteristic of packet switching?
A) Packets travel independently of each other.
B) Packets are routed through many different paths.
C) Packet switching requires point-to-point circuits.
D) Packets include data for checking transmission errors.
35) In TCP/IP, IP is responsible for
A) disassembling and reassembling of packets during transmission.
B) establishing an Internet connection between two computers.
C) moving packets over the network.
D) sequencing the transfer of packets.
36) In a telecommunications network architecture, a protocol is
A) a device that handles the switching of voice and data in a local area network.
B) a standard set of rules and procedures for control of communications in a network.
C) a communications service for microcomputer users.
D) the main computer in a telecommunications network.
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37) What are the four layers of the TCP/IP reference model?
A) physical, application, transport, and network interface
B) physical, application, Internet, and network interface
C) application, transport, Internet, and network interface
D) application, hardware, Internet, and network interface
38) Which signal types are represented by a continuous waveform?
A) laser
B) optical
C) digital
D) analog
39) To use the analog telephone system for sending digital data, you must also use
A) a modem.
B) a router.
C) DSL.
D) twisted wire.
40) Which type of network is used to connect digital devices within a half-mile or 500-meter
radius?
A) Wi-Fi
B) LAN
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C) WAN
D) MAN
41) Which type of network treats all processors equally, and allows peripheral devices to be
shared without going to a separate server?
A) peer-to-peer
B) wireless
C) LAN
D) Windows domain network
42) Which type of network would be most appropriate for a business that comprised three
employees and a manager located in the same office space, whose primary need is to share
documents?
A) MAN
B) Domain-based LAN
C) Peer-to-peer network
D) WAN
43) WSNs are designed for
A) connecting multiple wireless computing devices.
B) monitoring the physical environment.
C) increasing the reach of Wi-Fi networks.
D) tracking the movement of goods in a supply chain.
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44) All of the following are physical components of an RFID system except
A) bar code.
B) antenna.
C) radio transmitters.
D) tags.
45) Which digital cellular standard is used widely throughout the world except the United
States?
A) GSM
B) CDMA
C) WLAN
D) LTD
46) A network that spans a city, and sometimes its major suburbs as well, is called a
A) CAN.
B) MAN.
C) LAN.
D) WAN.
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47) A network that covers entire geographical regions is most commonly referred to as a(n)
A) local area network.
B) intranet.
C) peer-to-peer network.
D) wide area network.
48) The concept of a future Web in which it is commonplace for everyday objects to be
connected, controlled or monitored over the Internet is called
A) the Web of things.
B) the Semantic Web.
C) Internet2.
D) a 3-D Web.
49) Bandwidth is the
A) number of frequencies that can be broadcast through a medium.
B) number of cycles per second that can be sent through a medium.
C) difference between the highest and lowest frequencies that can be accommodated on a
single channel.
D) total number of bytes that can be sent through a medium per second.
50) The total amount of digital information that can be transmitted through any
telecommunications medium is measured in
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A) bps.
B) Hertz.
C) baud.
D) gigaflops.
51) Digital subscriber lines
A) operate over existing telephone lines to carry voice, data, and video.
B) operate over coaxial lines to deliver Internet access.
C) are very-high-speed data lines typically leased from long-distance telephone companies.
D) have up to twenty-four 64-Kbps channels.
52) T1 lines
A) operate over existing telephone lines to carry voice, data, and video.
B) operate over coaxial lines to deliver Internet access.
C) are high-speed, leased data lines providing guaranteed service levels.
D) have up to twenty-four 64-Kbps channels.
53) Which protocol is the Internet based on?
A) TCP/IP
B) FTP
C) packet-switching
D) HTTP
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54) What service converts IP addresses into more recognizable alphanumeric names?
A) HTML
B) DNS
C) IP
D) HTTP
55) The child domain of the root is the
A) top-level domain.
B) second-level domain.
C) host name.
D) domain extension.
56) In the domain name "http://books.azimuth-interactive.com", which element is the second-
level domain?
A) books
B) azimuth-interactive
C) com
D) none; there is no second-level domain in this name
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57) Which organization helps define the overall structure of the Internet?
A) none (no one "owns" the Internet)
B) W3C
C) ICANN
D) IAB
58) IPv6 is being 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.
59) Which of the following services enables logging on to one computer system and working on
another?
A) FTP
B) World Wide Web
C) newsgroups
D) telnet
60) Instant messaging is a type of ________ service.
A) chat
B) cellular
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C) e-mail
D) wireless
61) Which of the following statements about RFID is not true?
A) RFIDs transmit only over a short range.
B) RFIDs use an antenna to transmit data.
C) Microchips embedded in RFIDs are used to store data.
D) RFIDs require line-of-sight contact to be read.
62) ________ integrate(s) disparate channels for voice communications, data communications,
instant messaging, e-mail, and electronic conferencing into a single experience.
A) Wireless networks
B) Intranets
C) Virtual private networks
D) Unified communications
63) 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.
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64) Web browser software requests Web pages from the Internet using which protocol?
A) URL
B) HTTP
C) DNS
D) HTML
65) 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.
66) 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.
