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Technology In Action

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A gaming environment in which thousands of participants interact in a virtual game world by assuming roles of fictitious characters.






2. A software program that goes out and grabs the latest update of Web material (usually podcasts) according to your specifications.






3. A weblog is a personal log or journal posted on the web.






4. A program that enables users to communicate online in real time with others who are also online.






5. _________ broadband is primarily used in rural or mountain areas where other broadband service is unavailable.






6. A broadband connection has a transmission speed of __________.






7. The 's' at the end of https






8. The average speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






9. A type of specially coded text that - when clicked - enables a user to jump from one location - or Web page - to another within a Web site or to another Web site altogether.






10. A personal online journal that uses video as the primary content in addition to text - images - and audio.






11. A means of synchronous group communication used in discussion forums.






12. A program created by the U.S. government - the objective of which is to fund the research and development of cutting-edge networking technologies. Major goals of the program are the development of enhanced wireless technologies and increased network






13. A bookmark that delivers updates to you as soon as they become available - using Really Simple Syndication (RSS).






14. Internet access that is enabled by transmitting data at the speed of light through glass or plastic fibers.






15. Also known as tagging






16. A list that shows the hierarchy of previously viewed Web pages within the Web site that you are currently visiting. Shown at the top of some Web pages - it aids Web site navigation.






17. A set of programs that searches the Web for specific words (or keywords) you wish to query (or look for) and then returns a list of the Web sites on which those keywords are found.






18. Which of the following is NOT an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client application? Trillion Pidgin Facebook XChat






19. A computer that hosts the Web site that is being requested






20. A type of connection that uses telephone lines to connect to the Internet and that allows both phone and data transmissions to share the same line.






21. A social networking service






22. The general rules of etiquette for Internet chat rooms and other online communication.






23. Plays animation and movies through Web browsers






24. The main pathway of high-speed communications lines over which all Internet traffic flows.






25. The three parts of a search engine?






26. A type of Web site that allows anyone visiting the site to change its content by adding - removing - or editing the content.






27. Technology that enables video files to be fed to a browser continuously. This lets users avoid having to download the entire file before viewing.






28. The portion of a domain name that identifies who maintains a given Web site. For example - berkeley.edu is the domain name for the University of California at Berkeley - which maintains that site.






29. All the following are parts of a URL EXCEPT __________. hyperlink; protocol; domain name; path






30. A network of networks that is the largest network in the world - connecting millions of computers from more than one hundred countries.






31. An online game in which play occurs among hundreds or thousands of other players over the Internet in a persistent or ever-on game environment. In some games - players can interact with other players through trading - chatting - or playing cooperativ






32. Technology that enables audio files to be fed to a browser continuously. This lets users avoid having to download an entire file before listening.






33. The maximum speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






34. Measurement of how fast data travels between computers






35. A metasearch engine - such as Dogpile - searches other search engines rather than individual Web sites.






36. Devices that fit either into a USB port or a special slot on the side of a notebook.






37. Ebay is an example fo this type of web site






38. A _____________ is a list of pages within a Web site that have been visited.






39. A feature in some browsers that places a marker of a Web site's Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in an easily retrievable list. (Bookmarks are called Favorites in Microsoft Internet Explorer.)






40. Anything that involves one or more forms of media plus text.






41. A protocol for sending data between computers on the Internet.






42. E-commerce transactions between consumers through online sites such as eBay.com.






43. The suffix - often of three letters - in the domain name (such as .com or .edu) that indicates the kind of organization the host is.






44. A personal journal that uses video as the primary content - and the most popular of these is YouTube






45. A computer that provides resources to other computers on a network.






46. E-commerce transactions between businesses and consumers.






47. Top-level domain is reserved for the military






48. A structured outline of Web sites organized by topics and subtopics.






49. A communication device that works to translate digital data into an analog signal and back again.






50. The process of conducting business online for purposes ranging from fund-raising to advertising to selling products.






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