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Technology In Action

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Internet-based communication in which senders and recipients correspond.






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






3. A type of Web site that allows users to change its content by adding - removing - or editing the content






4. The main pathway used by data traffic on the Internet






5. A gaming environment in which thousands of participants interact in a virtual game world by assuming roles of fictitious characters.






6. 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.)






7. Also known as tagging






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






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






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






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






12. Seeing the VeriSign seal is a guarantee that a Web site is secure. True or False






13. To access the Internet - your computer is assigned a unique identification number called a(n) __________






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






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






16. The information after the slash indicates a particular file or path (or subdirectory) within the Web site.






17. Means by which people use the Internet to communicate and share information and meet and connect with others of common interest






18. 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.






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






20. __________ is an XML-based format that facilitates the delivery of frequent content updates on Web pages.






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






22. A device that converts (modulates) the digital signals the computer understands to analog signals that can travel over phone lines. The computer on the other end also must have a modem to translate (demodulate) the received analog signal back to a di






23. Largest computer network in the world






24. E-commerce transactions between businesses and consumers.






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






26. A program that constantly collects information on the Web - following links in Web sites and reading Web pages. Spiders get their name because they crawl over the Web using multiple 'legs' to visit many sites simultaneously.






27. A __________ is a structured outline of Web sites organized by topics and sub topics.






28. A protocol used to upload and download files from one computer to another over the Internet.






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






30. The 's' at the end of https






31. A small software program that 'plugs in' to a Web browser to enable a specific function






32. A type of broadband Internet connection that uses a television's cable service provider to connect to the Internet.






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






34. E-commerce transactions between businesses.






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






36. A network - consisting of client and server computers - in which the clients make requests of the server and the server returns the response.






37. A Web site's unique address; an example is microsoft.com.






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






39. A plug-in that views and prints Portable Document Format files is __________.






40. The maximum speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






41. A location on the Web.






42. A word used to refine logical searches. For Internet searches - the words AND - NOT - and OR describe the relationships between keywords in the search.






43. 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.






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






45. It can actually be safer to use your credit card online than in a traditional retail store because it eliminates the human factor from the equation. True or False






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






47. A connection to the Internet using a standard telephone line.






48. A computer that requests information from a server in a client/server network (such as your computer when you are connected to the Internet).






49. A feature in Microsoft Internet Explorer that places a marker of a Web site's Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in an easily retrievable list in the browser's toolbar. (Called Bookmarks in some browsers.)






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