CIS 105-Chapter 3 The Internet
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The internet
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A large network of networks
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The concept of the internet was developed from?
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The cold war crisis
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The agency that first began funding the internet was?
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Arpanet (Advanced Research Projects Agency)
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The world wide web was invented by?
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Tim-Berners-Lee at CERN
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All of the following are ways to communicate through internet except?
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hyperlinks
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Instant messaging (IM) services are programs that enable you to?
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Communicate with others who are online
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You can keep track of Im contacts by using a?
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Buddy list
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Which of the following is a form of voice-based internet communication that turns a standard internet connection into a means to place phone calls?
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Voice over Internet Protocol
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Which statement is true about VolP?
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You must be at a computer to make a phone call.
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____ are electonic mailing lists of e-mail addresses of people who are interested in a certain topic or an area of interest.
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Listservs
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Web 2.0 describes?
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A trend of new web applications that combine functionality of multiple applications,
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if you wanted to keep a written online journal you would use?
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A weblog
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Which of the following are personal video journal entries posted on the web?
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Vlogs
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A website that allows anyone to add or edit content is called a:
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Wiki
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Podcasts enable you to ?
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broadcast over the internet using compressed audio files such as MP3s and MP4s
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Podcasts use which of the following technologies?
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RSS
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RSS stands for?
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Really Simple Syndication
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A webcast is?
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the broadcast of audio or video content over the internet.
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Webcasts differ from podcasts in that webcasts:
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Are not updated automatically
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Facebook and Myspace are considered to be?
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Social networking websites
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Adobe Reader Flash Player and QuickTime Player are all examples of special software programs called:
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Plug-ins
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___ is a social networking service that enables you to exchange short text messages with your friends or followers
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twitter
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All of the following are examples of multimedia except?
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Text
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E-Commerce that involves businesses buying and selling goods and services to other businesses is called?
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B2B
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The S in HTTPS stands for?
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Secure socket layer
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the name of the free internet browser from mozilla?
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Firefox
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The text version of a website internet address is called the?
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Uniform resource locator (URL)
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HTTP is the abbreviation for?
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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Is the url http://www.prenhall.com the portion labeled http is the:
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Protocol
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In the URL http://www.prenhall.com the portion labeled .com is the:
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Top-level domain
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What protocol allows files to be transferred from web server so that you can view them on your computer using a browser?
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Http
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All of the following are parts of a url(web site address) except?
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Hyperlinks
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A list of pages withing a web site that you have visited and that usually appears at the top of a page is referred to as a
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breadcrumb list
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One way to mark a web site so that you can return to it later without typing the address is to?
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Use favorites or bookmarks
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A(n) ____ is a keyboard or term that is assigned to a piece of information such as a web page digital image or video and describes the site so that it can be found again by browsing or searching.
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tag
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A set of programs that searches the web to find information is called a
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search engine
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Search engines have with three parts?
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a spider and indexer, and a search engine software.
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The internet backbone refers to?
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The main pathway of high-speed communications through which all internet traffic flows.
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Which of the following is not a broadband internet connection?
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Dial-up
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Which of the following is most likely to be a popular choice for broadband internet connection in a rural area?
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Satellite
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The advantage of a dial-up internet connection is?
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Low cost
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Which of the following provides the highest speed internet connection?
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Cable
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The internet2 is a project?
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To develop new internet technologies
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The large scale networking (LSN) project is?
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A u.s. government internet research project
