Multiple Choice Quiz


1	Which of the following entities was responsible for creating the Internet?
		A)	UC/Santa Barbara
		B)	ARPA
		C)	CERN
		D)	Xerox PARC


2	Which of the following defense-related factors motivated the development of the Internet?
		A)	Cuban missile crisis
		B)	The cold war
		C)	Detente
		D)	NORAD


3	Initially, the Internet went by which of these names?
		A)	DARPA
		B)	MULTICS
		C)	ARPANET
		D)	BITNET


4	Which of the following is an alternate name for a computer on a network?
		A)	host
		B)	clone
		C)	drone
		D)	star


5	Which of the following network designs uses multiple hub computers?
		A)	centralized
		B)	decentralized
		C)	distributed
		D)	none of the above


6	Which of the following breaks a message into packets?
		A)	TCP
		B)	IP
		C)	error-detection software
		D)	error-correction software


7	Which of the following top-level domains was approved by ICANN in 2001?
		A)	.nonprofit
		B)	.tv
		C)	.web
		D)	.biz


8	Which of these associates a domain name with an IP address?
		A)	DNS server
		B)	ICANN
		C)	TCP/IP
		D)	none of the above


9	Which of these Internet services are layered on top of TCP/IP?
		A)	telnet
		B)	ftp
		C)	email
		D)	all of the above


10	Which of these Internet services is one of the main reasons why people decided to use the Internet?
		A)	telnet
		B)	ftp
		C)	email
		D)	ecommerce

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