Deck 6: Telecommunications and Networking

Question 1

Intranets support discovery, communication, and collaboration inside an organization.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

An Internet service provider is a company that offers Internet connections for a fee.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

An intranet is a network that uses Internet technologies and is designed to serve the information needs of a single organization.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A local area network connects two or more communicating devices in a limited geographical area.

Question 5

Wide-area networks have a large capacity, and they typically use a single communications channel.

Question 6

Currently, ATM networks operate only on fiber-optic cable.

Question 7

Cable media use wires or cables to transmit data and information.

Question 8

An extranet is a network that uses Internet technologies and is designed to serve the information needs of a single organization.

Question 9

Cladding is the coating that surrounds fiber-optic cables and prevents light from leaking out of the fiber.

Question 10

The Internet is a global network of computer networks.

Question 11

The U.S. public telephone system was designed as an analog network to carry voice signals.

Question 12

Network interface cards are special adapters that link an individual device to the communications medium on a local area network.

Question 13

Digital signals have two parameters: frequency and amplitude.

Question 14

Extranets offer limited accessibility to the intranets of participating companies.

Question 15

Systems that use digital subscriber lines (DSL) do not require modems.

Question 16

Digital signals are continuous waves that transmit information by altering the characteristics of the waves.

Question 17

The network interface card typically houses the LAN's network operating system.

Question 18

Internet kiosks are computer terminals located in public places like libraries and airports.

Question 19

A domain name is the official name assigned to an Internet site, consisting of multiple parts, separated by dots, which are translated from right to left in locating the site.

Question 20

Twisted-pair wire is the least-used form of communications wiring.

Question 21

The quality of automatic translation of Web pages is usually just as good as human translation.

Question 22

Which of the following is not a component of a local area network?

A) File server
B) Client computers
C) Bridge
D) Network interface cards
E) All of the above

Question 23

Commercial portals are intended for broad audiences and offer fairly routine content.

Question 24

A _____ connects dissimilar networks.

A) Router
B) Network interface card
C) Bridge
D) Gateway
E) File server

Question 25

The rightmost part of an Internet name is the top-level specification, or the zone.

Question 26

_____ refers to the range of frequencies available in any communications channel.

A) Protocol
B) Broadband
C) Capacity
D) Narrowband
E) Bandwidth

Question 27

Metasearch engines search several engines at once and integrate the findings of the various search engines.

Question 28

Industrywide portals are intended for broad audiences and offer fairly routine content.

Question 29

The components of a local area network include which of the following?

A) File server
B) Client computers
C) Wireline or wireless communications media
D) Network interface cards
E) All of the above

Question 30

The hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) is the communications standard used to transfer pages across the World Wide Web portion of the Internet.

Question 31

With Voice-over-IP, every call opens up a dedicated circuit for the duration of the call.

Question 32

E-learning is conducted only in virtual classrooms, where all coursework is completed online.

Question 33

Electronic mail is the largest-volume application running over the Internet.

Question 34

Uniform resource locators (URLs) point to the address of a specific resource or site on the Web.

Question 35

Uniform resource locators (URLs) are software applications through which users access the Web.

Question 36

Virtual universities are online universities from which students take classes from home or at an off-site location, via the Internet.

Question 37

Employees who telecommute have generally found that the experience enhances their careers.

Question 38

The World Wide Web is a system with universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information via a client/server architecture.

Question 39

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

Question 40

A major problem of the discovery applications of networks is the huge amount of information available.

Question 41

Which of the following is not a communications channel?

A) Fiber-optic cable
B) Satellite transmission
C) Twisted-pair wire
D) Integrated circuits
E) Cellular radio

Question 42

The cable medium with the highest bandwidth is:

A) Twisted-pair wire
B) Coaxial cable
C) Fiber-optic cable
D) Cellular radio
E) Copper cable

Question 43

A _____ allows a device to physically connect to a local area network's communications medium.

A) File server
B) Network interface card
C) Network operating system
D) Communications channel
E) Gateway

Question 44

_____ are hardware devices that support data transmission and reception across a telecommunications system.

A) Integrated services digital networks
B) Digital subscriber lines
C) Communications channels
D) Integrated circuits
E) Communications processors

Question 45

_____ signals convey information in wave form, whereas _____ signals convey information in binary form.

A) Analog, packet
B) Analog, digital
C) Digital, packet
D) Digital, analog
E) Packet, analog

Question 46

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 the control of communications in a network.
C) A communications service for the connection of devices in a local area network.
D) The main communications channel in a wide-area network.
E) Synonymous with network interface card.

Question 47

A type of processing that links two or more computers in an arrangement in which some machines provide computing services for user computers is best described as _______.

A) Open systems
B) Client/server
C) Peer-to-peer
D) Centralized
E) Mainframe-centric

Question 48

Which data transmission technology requires fiber-optic cable, can transmit up to 2.5 gigabits per second, and is more expensive than DSL?

A) Digital subscriber line
B) Asynchronous transfer mode
C) Synchronous optical network
D) T-carrier system
E) ISDN

Question 49

Data are sent through a fiber-optic cable by a(n) _______.

A) Optical switch
B) Electromagnetic switch
C) Laser
D) Multiplexer
E) Optical modem

Question 50

In order to ensure that computers developed by different manufacturers can communicate, _____ have been developed.

A) Protocols
B) Client/server architectures
C) WANs
D) Application software packages
E) Developmental architectures

Question 51

The function of _____ is to convert digital signals to analog signals and vice-versa.

A) Modems
B) Multiplexers
C) Front-end processors
D) Servers
E) Clients

Question 52

A _____ sends messages through several connected LANs or to a wide-area network.

A) Router
B) Network interface card
C) Bridge
D) Gateway
E) File server

Question 53

Which of the following enables users to send data across sometimes unreliable networks?

A) Ethernet
B) TCP/IP
C) Protocols
D) Digital subscriber lines
E) Integrated services digital network

Question 54

Which of the following is not a characteristic of twisted-pair wire?

A) Inexpensive
B) Easy to work with
C) Subject to interference from other electrical sources
D) Secure transmissions
E) None of the above

Question 55

Which of the following statements concerning packet switching is not true?

A) Packets contain a sequence number.
B) Packets are routed through different paths.
C) Packets require dedicated circuits.
D) Packets use TCP/IP to carry their data.
E) Packets contain destination addressing.

Question 56

The part of a network that handles the major traffic is the ________.

A) Front end
B) Network interface
C) Multiplexer
D) Backbone
E) Front end processor

Question 57

In TCP/IP, IP is responsible for:

A) Disassembling and reassembling of packets during transmission.
B) Establishing the Internet connection between two computers.
C) Moving packets over the network.
D) Sequencing the transfer of packets across the network.
E) Error checking.

Question 58

Which of the following is a digital transmission system that defines circuits that operate at different rates, all of which are multiples of the basic 64 Kbps used to transport a single voice call?

A) Digital subscriber line
B) Asynchronous transfer mode
C) Synchronous optical network
D) T-carrier system
E) ISDN

Question 59

Which transmission technology is an interface standard for transporting digital signals over fiber-optic lines that enables the integration of transmissions from multiple vendors?

A) Digital subscriber line
B) Asynchronous transfer mode
C) Synchronous optical network
D) T-carrier system
E) ISDN

Question 60

A(n) _____ connects two or more devices in a limited geographical area.

A) Local area network
B) Wide-area network
C) Personal area network
D) Enterprise network
E) Value added network

Question 61

Which network application(s) enable(s) users to access information located in databases all over the world?

A) Discovery
B) Communications
C) Collaboration
D) Web services
E) None of the above

Question 62

_____ portals offer content for diverse communities and are intended for broad audiences.

A) Industrywide
B) Personal
C) Affinity
D) Corporate
E) Commercial

Question 63

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

Question 64

_____ portals coordinate content within relatively narrow organizational and partners' communities.

A) Publishing
B) Personal
C) Affinity
D) Corporate
E) Commercial

Question 65

Consider this domain name, HYPERLINK "http://www.business.gsu.edu"www.business.gsu.edu. The "business" is the ________.

A) Top-level domain
B) Name of the organization
C) URL
D) Name of the specific computer
E) Address of the Webmaster

Question 66

Consider this domain name, HYPERLINK "http://www.business.gsu.edu"www.business.gsu.edu. The "gsu" is the __________.

A) Top-level domain
B) Name of the organization
C) URL
D) Name of the specific computer
E) Address of the Webmaster

Question 67

BitTorrent uses a process called _____, which eliminates file-sharing bottlenecks by having everyone share little pieces of a file at the same time.

A) Leeching
B) Collaboration
C) Packet switching
D) Torrents
E) Swarming

Question 68

Applications offered by the Internet2 include which of the following?

A) remote diagnosis
B) digital libraries
C) distance education
D) virtual laboratories
E) all of the above

Question 69

Consider this domain name, HYPERLINK "http://www.business.gsu.edu"www.business.gsu.edu. The "edu" is the _______.

A) Top-level domain
B) URL
C) Web site locator
D) Name of the computer
E) Address of the Webmaster

Question 70

Which of the following statements about publication of material in foreign languages is not correct?

A) It is a competitive necessity.
B) It must be accurate.
C) It is expensive.
D) Content must be localized to the needs of people in local markets.
E) It is not yet a major consideration for most companies.

Question 71

_____ are Internet access points that are located in public places, such as libraries and airports.

A) Clients
B) Servers
C) Internet access computers
D) Network computer
E) Internet kiosks

Question 72

Internet service providers connect to one another through _____.

A) Internet connection points
B) Common carrier connection points
C) Network access points
D) Network connection points
E) An extranet

Question 73

A(n) _____ is a network designed to serve the internal informational needs of a single organization.

A) Global network
B) Extranet
C) Internet
D) Intranet
E) World Wide Web

Question 74

The _____ is a global wide-area network that connects approximately 1 million organizational computer networks.

A) Ethernet
B) Extranet
C) Internet
D) Intranet
E) World Wide Web

Question 75

Portals are an example of which network application?

A) Discovery
B) Collaboration
C) Communications
D) Web services
E) None of the above

Question 76

Networks enable which of the following applications?

A) Discovery
B) Communications
C) Collaboration
D) Web services
E) All of the above

Question 77

Each site on the Internet gets an assigned address, which is a(n) _____.

A) TCP address
B) IP address
C) URL address
D) ISO/OSI identifier
E) World Wide Web address

Question 78

A(n) _____ connects parts of the intranets of different organizations and allows secure communications among business partners.

A) Global network
B) Extranet
C) Internet
D) Intranet
E) World Wide Web

Question 79

_____ portals support communities such as hobby groups or political parties.

A) Industrywide
B) Personal
C) Affinity
D) Corporate
E) Commercial

Question 80

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