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Technology In Action

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
Instructions:
  • 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






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






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.






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






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






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






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.






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






9. A popular open source browser software






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






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






12. Walmart.com is an example of this type of web site






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






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.






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






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.)






17. A keyword or term that Internet users assign to a Web resource such as a Web page - digital image - or video.






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






19. A location on the Web.






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






21. Plays animation and movies through Web browsers






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.






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






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






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






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






27. Seeing the VeriSign seal is a guarantee that a Web site is secure. True or 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).






29. Largest computer network in the world






30. Top-level domain is reserved for the military






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






32. E-commerce transactions between businesses.






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






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.)






35. The 's' at the end of https






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 -






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






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






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






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






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






42. Also known as tagging






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






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.






45. Measurement of how fast data travels between computers






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






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






48. A type of Web site that allows anyone visiting the site to change its content by adding - removing - or editing the content.






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.






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