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Technology In Action
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
video log
multiplayer online game
RSS
large-scale networking (LSN)
2. A metasearch engine - such as Dogpile - searches other search engines rather than individual Web sites.
Favorites
chat room
metasearch engine
IP address
3. 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.
search engine
World Wide Web (WWW or the Web)
business-to-business (B2B)
wiki
4. A personal journal that uses video as the primary content - and the most popular of these is YouTube
hyperlink
Express card slot (PC card slot)
video log
webcast
5. Means by which people use the Internet to communicate and share information and meet and connect with others of common interest
secure sockets layer
social networking
breadcrumb trail
social bookmarking
6. A network of networks that is the largest network in the world - connecting millions of computers from more than one hundred countries.
keyword
Internet
data transfer rate (bandwidth)
multiplayer online game
7. 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.
metasearch engine
host
Satellite
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology
8. A computer that provides resources to other computers on a network.
consumer to consumer
True
server
social bookmark (tag)
9. A popular open source browser software
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Firefox
secure sockets layer
Internet Protocol (IP)
10. A Web site's unique address; an example is microsoft.com.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
dial-up connection
instant messaging (IM)
social networking
11. Tools and Web-based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.
Spider - indexer program - and search engine software
dial-up modem
Web 2.0
netiquette
12. Walmart.com is an example of this type of web site
business to consumer
flash player
RSS
streaming audio
13. A gaming environment in which thousands of participants interact in a virtual game world by assuming roles of fictitious characters.
IP address
Spider - indexer program - and search engine software
massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG)
business-to-business (B2B)
14. 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.
breadcrumb list
large-scale networking (LSN)
hyperlink
World Wide Web (WWW or the Web)
15. A weblog is a personal log or journal posted on the web.
blog
business to consumer
search engine
digital subscriber line (DSL)
16. 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.)
data transfer rate (bandwidth)
Favorites
subject directory
bookmark
17. A keyword or term that Internet users assign to a Web resource such as a Web page - digital image - or video.
web browser
social bookmark (tag)
network interface card (NIC)
.mil
18. A clip of audio or video content that is broadcast over the Internet using compressed audio and video files such as MP3s and MP4s
Satellite
hyperlink
instant messaging (IM)
podcast
19. A location on the Web.
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
True
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Web site
20. A device that enables users to have wireless Internet access with mobile devices such as PDAs and notebooks.
e-commerce (electric commerce)
hyperlink
Facebook
aircard
21. Plays animation and movies through Web browsers
flash player
Fiber-Optic Service (FiOS)
webcast
search engine
22. 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.
e-mail (electronic mail)
streaming audio
spider
hyperlink
23. A broadband connection has a transmission speed of __________.
aircard
web browser
256 Kbps or more
video log
24. Which of the following is NOT an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client application? Trillion Pidgin Facebook XChat
host
Facebook
video log
client/server network
25. An expansion card that enables a computer to connect other computers or to a cable modem to facilitate a high-speed Internet connection.
network interface card (NIC)
Internet Protocol (IP)
large-scale networking (LSN)
subject directory
26. A personal online journal that uses video as the primary content in addition to text - images - and audio.
path (subdirectory)
large-scale networking (LSN)
chat room
video log (vlog or video blog)
27. Seeing the VeriSign seal is a guarantee that a Web site is secure. True or False
Internet
e-commerce (electric commerce)
blog
false
28. A computer that requests information from a server in a client/server network (such as your computer when you are connected to the Internet).
video log (vlog or video blog)
client
aggregator
Express card slot (PC card slot)
29. Largest computer network in the world
instant messaging (IM)
Internet
keyword
Internet Protocol (IP)
30. Top-level domain is reserved for the military
spider
aggregator
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
.mil
31. A software program that runs on a computer and is used to send and receive e-mail through the ISP's server.
e-mail (electronic mail)
e-mail client
data transfer rate
social networking
32. E-commerce transactions between businesses.
webcast
cable
hyperlink
business-to-business (B2B)
33. __________ is an XML-based format that facilitates the delivery of frequent content updates on Web pages.
streaming audio
search engine
RSS
client/server network
34. 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.)
social bookmark (tag)
Favorites
Firefox
business-to-consumer (B2C)
35. The 's' at the end of https
IP address
consumer to consumer
secure sockets layer
multiplayer online game
36. A way to connect to the Internet using a small satellite dish - which is placed outside the home and is connected to a computer with coaxial cable. The satellite company then sends the data to a satellite orbiting the Earth. The satellite - in turn -
.mil
satellite Internet
modem
path (subdirectory)
37. The information after the slash indicates a particular file or path (or subdirectory) within the Web site.
flash player
cable
web server
path (subdirectory)
38. A _____________ is a list of pages within a Web site that have been visited.
consumer to consumer
breadcrumb trail
False
ARPANET
39. A protocol for sending data between computers on the Internet.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
social networking
Internet Protocol (IP)
7
40. A means of synchronous group communication used in discussion forums.
multimedia
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Web 2.0
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
41. A connection to the Internet using a standard telephone line.
client
client/server network
server
dial-up connection
42. Also known as tagging
cable
social bookmarking
Adobe Reader
business to consumer
43. 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
World Wide Web (WWW or the Web)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
subject directory
Adobe Reader
44. A word used to refine logical searches. For Internet searches - the words AND - NOT - and OR describe the relationships between keywords in the search.
netiquette
Boolean operator
video log
streaming audio
45. Measurement of how fast data travels between computers
data transfer rate
Adobe Reader
256 Kbps or more
search engine
46. The first 'internet' was a U.S. government-funded 'internet working' project named __________.
ARPANET
subject directory
social networking
keyword
47. A type of broadband Internet connection that uses a television's cable service provider to connect to the Internet.
cable
social networking
digital subscriber line (DSL)
data transfer rate (bandwidth)
48. A type of Web site that allows anyone visiting the site to change its content by adding - removing - or editing the content.
video log (vlog or video blog)
subject directory
Boolean operator
wiki
49. Technology that enables video files to be fed to a browser continuously. This lets users avoid having to download the entire file before viewing.
ARPANET
social bookmarking
instant messaging (IM)
streaming video
50. The maximum speed at which data can be transmitted between two nodes on a network; usually measured in megabits per second (Mbps).
modem
7
false
data transfer rate (bandwidth)