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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. Is a wildcard or placeholder feature that is helpful when you need to search with unknown terms.






12. (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.






13. 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.






14. 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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






20. The three parts of a search engine?






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






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






23. 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.






24. A high-speed Internet connection such as cable - satellite - or digital subscriber line (DSL).






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






26. Plays animation and movies through Web browsers






27. E-commerce transactions between businesses and consumers.






28. 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.






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






30. Seeing the VeriSign seal is a guarantee that a Web site is secure. True or False






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






32. 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.






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






34. The protocol that allows files to be transferred from a Web server so that you can see them on your computer by using a browser.






35. Measurement of how fast data travels between computers






36. 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






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






38. The average speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. A popular open source browser software






47. Devices that fit either into a USB port or a special slot on the side of a notebook.






48. A location on the Web.






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






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