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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 means by which people use the Internet to communicate and share information among their immediate friends - and meet and connect with others through common interests - experiences - and friends.






3. 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






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






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






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






7. E-mail communications are private. True or False.






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






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






10. Top-level domain is reserved for the military






11. The maximum speed at which data can be transmitted between two nodes on a network; usually measured in megabits per second (Mbps).






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






17. An area on the Web where people come together to communicate online. The conversations are in real time and are visible to everyone in the chat room.






18. A software program that runs on a computer and is used to send and receive e-mail through the ISP's server.






19. Tools and Web-based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.






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. (1) A specific word a user wishes to query (or look for) in an Internet search. (2) A specific word that has a predefined meaning in a particular programming language.






22. The maximum speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






30. A device that enables users to have wireless Internet access with mobile devices such as PDAs and notebooks.






31. Software programs that access your Internet service provider - which acts like an electronic post office






32. Plays animation and movies through Web browsers






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. E-commerce transactions between businesses.






37. A part of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Domain names consist of two parts: the site's host and a suffix that indicates the type of organization. (Example: popsci.com)






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. A clip of audio or video content that is broadcast over the Internet using compressed audio and video files such as MP3s and MP4s






47. 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.)






48. 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.






49. The part of the Internet used the most. What distinguishes the Web from the rest of the Internet are (1) its use of common communication protocols (such as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - or TCP/IP) and special languages (such as th






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