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Technology In Action

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. The average speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






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






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






4. 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)






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






6. 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






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






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






9. Measurement of how fast data travels between computers






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






11. 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






12. A location on the Web.






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






14. E-commerce transactions between businesses and consumers.






15. A social networking service






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






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






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






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






20. Top-level domain is reserved for the military






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






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






23. Software that enables a user to display and interact with text and other media on the Web






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






25. 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.






26. A computer running a specialized operating system that enables it to host Web pages (and other information) and provide requested Web pages to clients.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Largest computer network in the world






36. E-commerce transactions between businesses.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. The main or opening page of a Web site.






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






45. The maximum speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






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






47. An XML-based format that allows frequent updates of content on the World Wide Web.






48. A popular open source browser software






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






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







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