Deck 7: The Internet, Web, Intranets, and Extranets

Question 1

What continent is home to the largest percentage of the world's Internet users?

A)Asia
B)Europe
C)North America
D)South America

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What do the fibre-optic cables that span the globe over land and undersea make up?

A)the Internet's infrastructure
B)the Internet's backbone
C)the Internet's transmission media
D)the Internet's TCP/IP

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Who developed the World Wide Web?

A)Tim Berners-Lee
B)Steve Jobs
C)Microsoft CEO
D)Cisco CEO

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What is one of the characteristics of packets on the Internet?

A)Packets include chunks of indexes.
B)Packets are a means to store data.
C)Packets follow the TCP protocol.
D)Packets carry the address of its sender and receiver host.

Question 5

What service option typically provides the fastest Internet download speed?

A)DSL
B)cable
C)dial-up
D)cellular

Question 6

Annikki is considering expanding her business to offer her clients online services.She is looking at renting those services and has someone else to take care of her telecommunication needs.What type of services would work best for her?

A)Cloud computing
B)Infrastructure
C)Outsourcing
D)Wireless

Question 7

What country blocks Internet content that it feels is subversive or threatening to national unity?

A)Ireland
B)China
C)India
D)Brazil

Question 8

What organization is responsible for managing IP addresses and Internet domain names?

A)the United Nations
B)ICANN
C)FTC
D)CRTC

Question 9

What specially denoted text or graphic on a Web page opens a Web page containing related content when it is clicked?

A)a tag
B)a hyperlink
C)an IP address
D)hypertext markup language (scripting language)

Question 10

What specifies the exact location of a Web page using letters and words?

A)an IP address
B)a URL
C)a packet
D)a Web link

Question 11

In the early days of the Internet, what was the name given to the large telecom companies, such as Bell Canada, Sprint, and British Telecom?

A)Telco
B)CRTC
C)NSP
D)TCP

Question 12

The ARPANET was eventually broken into two networks: MILNET and a new, smaller ARPANET.The newer ARPANET remained connected using which of the following?

A)TCP protocol
B)Internet
C)DARPANET
D)IP protocol

Question 13

In what computing environment are software and storage provided as an Internet service and accessed with a Web browser?

A)portal services computing
B)network application services computing
C)time sharing computing
D)cloud computing

Question 14

What was the original purpose of the World Wide Web?

A)an instant messaging service
B)a means for conducting e-commerce
C)a way to send mail electronically
D)an internal document-management system

Question 15

In Canada, companies such as Bell, Rogers, and Telus compete to provide Internet access to consumers and businesses.What is the name given to such organizations?

A)network service providers
B)Internet service providers
C)wireless providers
D)cloud providers

Question 16

What type of software is used to access and view Web pages?

A)client/server software
B)Web browser software
C)HTML software
D)HTTP software

Question 17

In an Internet address, what do codes like ".com" for business sites and ".edu" for education sites indicate?

A)the website's affiliation category
B)the website's domain category
C)the website's IP address category
D)the website's privacy category

Question 18

The Internet will soon be upgraded to IPv6.What type of addresses does IPv6 use in order to provide for many more devices?

A)32-bit addresses
B)64-bit addresses
C)128-bit addresses
D)256-bit addresses

Question 19

What is data divided into in order to be transmitted over the Internet?

A)bits
B)messages
C)bytes
D)packets

Question 20

What network protocol enables traffic to be routed among all of the networks connected to the Internet?

A)ISO seven-layer model
B)TCP
C)IP
D)Wi-Fi

Question 21

The ARPANET, ancestor of the Internet, was eventually broken into two networks: MILNET, which included all military sites, and a new, smaller network called the World Wide Web.

Question 22

The Web has now evolved from a one-directional resource to a two-directional resource.Which of the following statements best describe this paradigm shift?

A)Users are now able to access the Internet faster than ever.
B)Users are able to collaborate and share information.
C)There are an increasing number of social groups.
D)There are an increasing number of Internet service providers.

Question 23

Gillian is manages a large team of over twenty field staff who telecommute.She would like to have a system whereby the team can communicate effectively to signal where they are.What could help Gillian?

A)instant messaging tool
B)e-mail tool
C)collaboration tool
D)web portal tool

Question 24

Of all the countries, China has the most Internet users with over 384 million users.

Question 25

What type of website allows people to add or edit entries in its encyclopedia at any time?

A)blogs
B)wikis
C)bulletin boards
D)discussion groups

Question 26

The information department at Company Nex recommends providing its home-based employees a secure way to access and transfer files over the Internet.What type of network would achieve this?

A)personal access
B)virtual private
C)metropolitan access
D)Wi-Fi

Question 27

Pascale maintains her company's website and every evening, she updates the necessary information so the company website remains current.What can Pascale use to help her?

A)content streaming
B)file transfer protocol
C)cloud upload protocol
D)instant messaging transfer

Question 28

Gilles is the project manager of a large project with a team of over 20 staff who are located all over Toronto.He would like to have a system whereby the team can communicate effectively and share resources.What could help Gilles?

A)Instant messaging tool
B)E-mail tool
C)Collaboration tool
D)Web portal tool

Question 29

What is the standard page description language for Web pages?

A)HTML
B)tags
C)IP addresses
D)hypertext

Question 30

China has by far the most Internet users, which is more people than the total U.S.population.

Question 31

Wallsmart is an online retail company that offers an effective means for their customers and their suppliers to communicate and share information securely online.What protocol would be involved here?

A)Internet
B)Simple object access
C)Web services descriptive language
D)Universal discovery description and integration

Question 32

Today's Internet is made up of more than 750 million computers supporting over 2 billion users.

Question 33

New advancements in technology and telecommunications have made is possible to watch full featured movies online.What type of technology would make this possible?

A)Rich internet applications
B)Web 1.0
C)Social networking
D)Content streaming

Question 34

Marguerite is a web designer and has been asked to improve the look and feel of her company website streamlining the menu and navigation controls.What tool could she use to achieve this improvement?

A)Java
B)Extensible markup language
C)Cascading style sheet
D)C++

Question 35

The Next Generation Internet is also known as Internet2, or Abilene.

Question 36

What can be used in an enterprise to enable the sharing of information between employees, training for new employees, or customer support for products?

A)a wiki
B)a Web portal
C)Web analytics software
D)a productivity suite service

Question 37

What automated programs scour the Web in an attempt to catalogue every Web page by topic?

A)applets
B)spiders
C)search engines
D)application keyword finders

Question 38

What search engine dominates the market?

A)Microsoft's Bing
B)China's Baidu
C)Yahoo
D)Google

Question 39

What valuable tool enables you to find information on the Web by specifying words or phrases-known as keywords-related to a topic of interest?

A)an applet
B)a search engine
C)a Web portal
D)an index generator

Question 40

Richard is improving his company's intranet to allow for better integration of the all applications and create a one stop access to all resources needed.What could Richard create for his company?

A)Cloud applications
B)Extranet applications
C)Web portal
D)Collaboration portal

Question 41

Adobe Flash provides a development environment to create rich Web animation and interactive media that requires the user to install a browser plug-in to run.

Question 42

A Web portal is a Web page that combines useful information and links, acts as an entry point to the Web, and offers a search engine, a subject directory, daily headlines, and other items of interest.

Question 43

The Internet organizes Internet resources throughout the world into a series of linked files, called pages, accessed and viewed using Web-based client software called Java.

Question 44

Client/server refers to a computing environment where software and storage are provided as an Internet service and accessed with a Web browser.

Question 45

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for managing IP addresses and operating websites.

Question 46

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a Web address that specifies the exact location of a Web page using letters and words that map to an IP address and a location on the host.

Question 47

Just as HTML was developed as a standard for formatting Web content into Web pages, XML is used within a Web page to describe and transfer data on the Web.

Question 48

The URL, such as "www.cengage.com," is the domain name that identifies the Internet host site.

Question 49

A virtual private network provides a private, but unsecure, connection since it operates over the Internet.

Question 50

The Internet routes data packets over the network backbone from router to router to reach their destinations.

Question 51

Perhaps the least expensive, but slowest, Internet connection provided by ISPs is a public Wi-Fi "hotspot."

Question 52

JavaScript can be used to create interactive Web pages that respond to user actions, validate data entry in a Web form, display photos in a slideshow style, and perform other actions.

Question 53

Many organizations invest in search engine optimization as a means of improving the speed of their Web searches.

Question 54

Wikipedia captures the knowledge of tens of thousands of experts, and access to its entries is tightly controlled so that its entries are always accurate and unbiased.

Question 55

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard page description language for Web pages that tell the Web browser how to display Web pages.

Question 56

In business, cloud computing is often referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS), and the vendors that provide the software are application service providers.

Question 57

The affiliation ID ".mobi" is associated with non-profit organization websites.

Question 58

An IP address is an 8-bit number assigned to each computer to identify it on the Internet.

Question 59

The .NET Web services platform from Sun Microsystems includes a rich library of programming code to help build XML Web applications.

Question 60

Web services consist of standards and tools that streamline and simplify communications among websites and use the XML language.

Question 61

A corporate blog can be useful in communicating with customers, partners, and employees; however, there are many potential issues associated with corporate blogging.

Question 62

____________________ is a new cross-country, high-speed fibre-optic network dedicated to research in high-speed networking applications.

Question 63

Web log is a collection of Web technologies that allows users to subscribe to Web content that is frequently updated.

Question 64

Organizations and individuals unable to connect directly to the Internet through a LAN server must access the Internet through a(n) ____________________.

Question 65

____________________ are large telecommunications companies that provide the cables, routers, switching stations, communications towers, and satellites that make up networks.

Question 66

The ____________________ is a Web address that specifies the exact location of a Web page using letters and words that map to an IP address and a location on the host.

Question 67

Twitter, with its maximum of 120-character messages, has proven to be a rich source of consumer sentiment that can be tapped to improve marketing, customer relations, and product development.

Question 68

Accredited domain name ____________________ handle the business of registering domain names.

Question 69

In business, cloud computing is often referred to as ____________________.

Question 70

The top-level domain affiliation used to denote nonprofit organization sites is ____________________.

Question 71

The ____________________ is responsible for managing IP addresses and Internet domain names.

Question 72

With cloud computing, the processing and storage requirements of all of its clients can be spread over numerous ____________________.

Question 73

A rich Internet application is software that has the functionality and complexity of traditional software, but runs in a Web browser and does not require local installation.

Question 74

"www.cengage.com" is an example of a(n) ____________________ name that identifies the Internet host site.

Question 75

Content streaming is a means of transferring large media files over the Internet so that the data stream of voice and pictures plays more or less continuously as the file is being downloaded.

Question 76

Messages on the Internet are typically sent through one or more ____________________ to reach their destinations.

Question 77

ISPs are working to reign in bandwidth ____________________ who ISPs claim are slowing down service for normal users.

Question 78

The ancestor of the Internet was the ____________________, a project started by the U.S.Department of Defense (DOD) in 1969.

Question 79

The set of rules used to pass packets of data from one Internet host to another is called the ____________________ protocol.

Question 80

Each computer on the Internet has an assigned address, called its ____________________ address, which identifies it on the Internet.