Question 1

Networks of computer and the Internet that connects them to each other form the basic technological structure that underlies virtually all electronic commerce.

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True

Question 2

The USENET was the earliest of the networks that eventually combines to become what we now call the Internet.

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False

Question 3

E-mail was born in 1972 when a researcher wrote a program that could send a receive messages over the Defense Department network.

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True

Question 4

The first e-mail mailing lists appeared on military and education research networks.

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True

Question 5

A network of computers that are located in the same building is called a wide area network.

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False

Question 6

The Internet provides a high degree of security in its basic structure.

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False

Question 7

Extranets were used to save money and increase efficiency by replacing traditional communication tools such as fax, telephone, and overnight express document carriers.

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True

Question 8

The word \"virtual,\" used as a part of virtual private networks means that the network connection is permanent.

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False

Question 9

An intranet extends beyond the organization that created it.

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False

Question 10

Virtual private network software must be installed on the computers at both ends of a transmission.

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True

Question 11

Public networks, private networks, and VPNs are independent of organizational boundaries.

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True

Question 12

IP addresses appear as five decimal numbers separated by periods.

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False

Question 13

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a common protocol used for sending and retrieving e-mail.

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True

Question 14

Post Office Protocol (POP) allows the user to view only the header and the e-mail sender\'s name before deciding to download the entire message.

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True

Question 15

The Post Office Protocol (POP) provides support for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.

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True

Question 16

At a technological level, the Web is nothing more than software that runs on computers that are connected to the Internet.

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True

Question 17

The Semantic Web project envisions words on Web pages being tagged with their meanings.

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True

Question 18

An HTML document is similar to a word-processing document in that it specifies how a particular text element will appear.

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False

Question 19

The leftmost part of a domain is called a top-level domain (TLD).

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False

Question 20

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has the responsibility of managing domain names and coordinating them with the IP address registrars.

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True

Question 21

The most important parts of a Web page are the graphics, photographs, and small programs that run in the Web browser.

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False

Question 22

SGML offers a system of marking up documents that is independent of any software application.

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True

Question 23

The term \"cascading\" is used in cascading style sheets because designers can apply many style sheets to the same Web page, one on top of the other.

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True

Question 24

The higher the bandwidth, the faster the transmission of data through a communication medium.

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True

Question 25

A hierarchical hyperlink structure resembles conventional paper documents in that the reader begins on the first page and clicks the Next button to move to the next page in a serial fashion.

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True

Question 26

The combination of telephone lines and the closed switches that connect them to each other is called a ____.

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Circuit

Question 27

Files and e-mail message sent over the Internet are broken down into small pieces called ______

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Packets

Question 28

The computer that decides how to best forward each packet from on network to another are called ______.

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Routers

Question 29

The programs on gateway computers that determine the best path on which to send each packet contain rules called _____.

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Routing Algorithms

Question 30

A _____ is a permanent telephone connection between two points.

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Leased Line

Question 31

_____ creates a private passageway through the public Internet that provides secure transmission from one computer to another.

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IP tunneling

Question 32

_____ is a connection that uses public networks and their protocols to send data using a technology called IP tunneling

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Virtual Private Network

Question 33

A _____ is a collection of rules for formatting, ordering, and error checking data sent across a network.

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Protocol

Question 34

_____ determine how a sending device indicates that it has finished sending a message and how the receiving device indicates that it has received the message.

Accepted Answer

Protocols

Question 35

The 32-bit number used to identify computers connected to the Internet is known as the _____.

Accepted Answer

IP Address

Question 36

_____ specifies the format of a mail message and describes how mail is to be administered on the e-mail server and transmitted on the Internet.

Accepted Answer

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

Question 37

In subnetting, a computer called a _____ device converts private IP addresses into normal IP addresses when it forwards packaets from those computers on the Internet.

Accepted Answer

Network Address Translation (NAT)

Question 38

The combination of a protocol name and a domain name is called a(n) _____.

Accepted Answer

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Question 39

IPv6 uses a _____ number for addresses.

Accepted Answer

128 bit

Question 40

The purpose of a(n) _____ is to respond to requests for Web pages from Web clients.

Accepted Answer

Web server

Question 41

_____ is a set of rules for handling binary files, such as word-processing documents, spreadsheets, photos, or sound clips that are attached to e-mail messages.

Accepted Answer

MIME

Question 42

A newer e-mail protocol that performs the same basic functions as POP, but includes additional features, is known as _____.

Accepted Answer

IMAP

Question 43

_____ lets users create and manipulate e-mail folders and individual e-mail messages while the message are still on the e-mail server.

Accepted Answer

IMAP

Question 44

A(n) _____ has a hypertext reference (HREF) property, which specifies the remote or local document\'s address.

Accepted Answer

Opening Tag

Question 45

A _____ structure resembles an inverted tree in which the root is at the top and the branches are below it.

Accepted Answer

Linear Hyperlink

Question 46

HTML was developed by _____.

Accepted Answer

Tim Berners-Lee

Question 47

_____ was the first Web browser that became widely available for personal computers.

Accepted Answer

Mosaic

Question 48

The early versions of ____ let Web page designers create text-based electronic documents with headings, title bar titles, bullets, lines, and ordered lists.

Accepted Answer

HTML

Question 49

In HTML, hyperlinks are created using the HTML _____ tag.

Accepted Answer

Anchor

Question 50

A(n) ______ is any technology that allows people to connect to computers to each other.

Accepted Answer

Computer Network

Question 51

A computer which uses a specific set of rules and connects networks all over the world to each other is called the _____.

Accepted Answer

Internet

Question 52

The _____ is a subnet of the computers on the Internet that are connected to one another in a specific way that makes them and their contents easily accessible to each other.

Accepted Answer

Internet

Question 53

A(n) _____ is an e-mail address that forwards any message it receives to any user who has subscribed to the list.

Accepted Answer

Mailing List

Question 54

In 1979, a group of students and programmers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina started _____, which allows anyone who connects to the network to read and post articles on a variety of subjects.

Accepted Answer

Usenet

Question 55

Usenet survives on the Internet today, with more than 1000 different topic areas that are called _____.

Accepted Answer

Newsgroups

Question 56

Internet _____ are computers that are directly connected to the Internet.

Accepted Answer

Hosts

Question 57

Companies known as _____ sell Internet access rights directly to larger customers and indirectly to smaller firms and individuals through other companies, called ISPs.

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Network Access Providers

Question 58

The subnet of the Internet includes computers and sensors connected to each other for communication and automatic transaction processing is called the _____.

Accepted Answer

Internet of Things

Question 59

A(n) _____ is a set of standards that defines, in detail, the relationships among resource description framework (RDF) standards and specific extensible markup language (XML) tags within a particular knowledge domain.

Accepted Answer

Ontology

Question 60

A group of network research scientists from nearly 200 universities and a number of major corporations joined together in 1996 to recapture the original enthusiasm of the ARPANET and created an advanced research network called ______.

Accepted Answer

Internet2

Question 61

A(n) ______ is used when the Internet extends beyond the boundaries of an organization and includes networks of other organizations.

Accepted Answer

Extranet

Question 62

The _____ controls the disassembly of a message or a file into packets before it is transmitted over the Internet, and it controls the reassembly of those packets into their original formats when they reach their destinations.

Accepted Answer

TCP

Question 63

The _____ in TCP/IP specifies the addressing details for each packet, labeling each with the packet\'s origination and destination addresses.

Accepted Answer

IP

Question 64

The set of rules for delivering Web page files other the Internet is in a protocol called the ______.

Accepted Answer

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

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