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Technology In Action

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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






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






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






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






5. A social networking service






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






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






8. An expansion card that enables a computer to connect other computers or to a cable modem to facilitate a high-speed Internet connection.






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. The first 'internet' was a U.S. government-funded 'internet working' project named __________.






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






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






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






17. A method of communication - similar to a discussion group or forum - in which people create threads - or conversations. In a thread - a newsgroup member will post messages and read and reply to messages from other members of the newsgroup.






18. The average speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






19. 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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






23. (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.






24. A clip of audio or video content that is broadcast over the Internet using compressed audio or video files in formats such as MP3.






25. Software installed on a computer system that allows individuals to locate - view - and navigate the Web.






26. 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






27. Internet-based communication in which senders and recipients correspond.






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






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






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






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






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






33. The broadcast of audio or video content over the Internet. Unlike a podcast - a webcast is not updated automatically.






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






35. A popular open source browser software






36. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.)






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






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






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






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






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. The maximum speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






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