Quiz 10: The Internet – Flashcards

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During the late 1960s, a branch of the U.S. government titled the __ created one of the country's first wide area packet-switched networks.
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Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA)
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In 1983, the Department of Defense broke the ARPANET into two similar networks: the original ARPANET and __.
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MILNET
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To transfer Web pages, the Internet uses the __.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
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__ are used to select unique documents from anywhere in the world.
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Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
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The protocol that resides at the __ layer in the TCP/IP protocol suite is called Internet Protocol (IP).
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transport
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The IP datagram __ field enables the network to discard a datagram that has been traveling the Internet for too long.
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Time to Live
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__ lets a router represent an entire local area network to the Internet as a single IP address.
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NAT
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A __ is a data network connection that makes use of the public telecommunications infrastructure but maintains privacy through the use of a tunneling protocol and security procedures.
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virtual private network (VPN)
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A (n) __ uniquely identifies files, Web pages, images, or an other types of electronic documents that reside on the Internet.
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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The __ is a large, distributed database of Internet addresses and domain names.
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Domain Name System (DNS)
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__ is a set of codes inserted into a document that is intended for display on a Web browser.
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
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__ is the computerized version of writing a letter and mailing it at the local post office.
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Electronic mail
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The primary functions of __ are to allow a user to download a file from a remote site to the user's computer and to upload a file from the user's computer to a remote site.
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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
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The practice of making telephone calls over the Internet has had a number of different names, including packet voice, voice over packet, voice over the Internet , Internet telephony, and __.
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Voice over IP (VoIP)
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A company can use IP for transmission of data within its own network, but use traditional telephone lines outside the company network. Many people are now beginning to call such systems __.
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private VoIP
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__ is actually a set of protocols named packet-based multimedia protocols, and it was designed for a wide range of applications (audio and video).
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H.323
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__ involves the continuous download of a compressed audio or video file, which can then be heard or viewed on the user's workstation.
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Streaming audio and video
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__ is the electronic selling and buying of merchandise using the Web.
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E-retailing
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A __ is data created by a Web server that is stored on the hard drive of a user's workstation.
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cookie
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One of the biggest changes to affect the Internet will be the adoption of a new version of the Internet Protocol, version __.
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IPv6
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