The purpose of this quiz is to provide the student with a large number of supplemental exercises for Chapter 3. This quiz can be used to perform a self-evaluation. This quiz consists of twenty five multiple choice questions. Each multiple choice question has four possible answers.
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Which is the most suitable definition for the Internet? |
| | A) | A large computer network. |
| | B) | A group of computers that are interconnected. |
| | C) | The global system of networked computers together with languages. |
| | D) | The global system of networked computers together with their users and data. |
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Which of the following statements is true? |
| | A) | Less than twenty percent of Internet users are male. |
| | B) | Less than twenty percent of Internet users are female. |
| | C) | Less than 100 countries are on the Internet. |
| | D) | On average, each day over 20,000 new users go online. |
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ARPANET stands for which of the following: |
| | A) | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network End Transmissions |
| | B) | Advanced Research Project Agency Network |
| | C) | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
| | D) | Area Round Protocol and Network |
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Which of the following statements is true? |
| | A) | LAN stands for Local Arena Networking. |
| | B) | Packet switching was introduced in the late 1970s. |
| | C) | The Internet as we know it today had less than 50 nodes in 1972. |
| | D) | Ray Tomlinson founded Netscape Communications. |
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UUCP stands for which of the following? |
| | A) | Unix Copy |
| | B) | Unix to Unix Copy |
| | C) | USENET to Unix Copy |
| | D) | Unix to Unix Copy Protocol |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | BITNET was started in 1981. |
| | B) | BITNET was formed at the City University of New York. |
| | C) | BITNET was where many mailing lists originated. |
| | D) | BITNET stands for Binary Network. |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol. |
| | B) | IP stands for Internet Protocol. |
| | C) | TCP/IP consists of two Internet Protocols. |
| | D) | The Internet is an open system. |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | The Web was invented at a Physics lab in 1991. |
| | B) | Mosaic was a graphical Web browser developed by Tim Berners-Lee. |
| | C) | Marc Andreessen is one of the founders of Netscape Communications. |
| | D) | Yahoo! was started in 1994. |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | Java was released in 1995. |
| | B) | Netscape released the source code for their browser in 1998. |
| | C) | Gopher was a menu driven system to locate information on the Internet. |
| | D) | NSF assumed control of the ARPANET in 1980. |
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Which of the following did not contribute to the growth of the Internet? |
| | A) | The Internet did not require a centralized structure that would not scale up; it was and is a distributed operation. |
| | B) | Due to the homogeneity of language and outlook, a sharp focus on the Internet itself could be maintained. |
| | C) | Decisions were made on a political basis, especially involving
international groups. This allowed the project the support it needed to grow. |
| | D) | It allowed people to do things of inherent interest, for example, send and receive email. |
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Which of the following is not considered a benefit of networked
computers? |
| | A) | Provide convenience. |
| | B) | Allow sharing of resources. |
| | C) | Provide reliability. |
| | D) | Complicate scalability. |
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Which of the following is not an advantage of packets? |
| | A) | Make error recovery easy. |
| | B) | Distribute network load. |
| | C) | Allow a user to send a large message as one unit. |
| | D) | Provide rerouting flexibility. |
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Which of the following is not a type of physical component that makes up the Internet? |
| | A) | server |
| | B) | router |
| | C) | network |
| | D) | browser |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | A kilobit is 1,000 bits. |
| | B) | A megabit is 1,000,000 bits. |
| | C) | A megabyte is 8,000,000 bytes. |
| | D) | 10 bytes is 80 bits. |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | An IP address is four bytes long. |
| | B) | IP stands for Internet Protocol. |
| | C) | The following number could be a valid IP address: 132.166.4.211. |
| | D) | IP addresses are symbolic names that are easy for people to remember. |
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Internet Protocol Version 6 does not contribute which of the following: |
| | A) | more IP addresses |
| | B) | simplified IP headers |
| | C) | smart browsing |
| | D) | added security features |
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Which step is not taken during Web page retrieval? |
| | A) | Query to DNS for an IP address. |
| | B) | Establishment of a TCP connection. |
| | C) | A request for a file. |
| | D) | Simultaneous retrieval of images and text. |
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Which of the following statements is true? |
| | A) | The Internet restricts educational opportunities for adults. |
| | B) | The Internet restricts entertainment opportunities for adults. |
| | C) | The Internet allows for rapid and global dissemination of information. |
| | D) | Internet Relay Chat is a newsgroup that you can subscribe to. |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | AFAIK stands for As Far As I Know. |
| | B) | FWIW stands for For What Its Worth. |
| | C) | IMHO stands for Internet My Home Office. |
| | D) | YMMV stands for Your Mileage May Vary. |
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Which of the following is an invalid URL? |
| | A) | www.toyota.com |
| | B) | www.dell.computers |
| | C) | www.nsf.gov |
| | D) | www.ucla.edu |
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Which of the following pair are the greatest concerns of typical
consumers for carrying out business on the Web? |
| | A) | privacy and cost |
| | B) | cost and security |
| | C) | privacy and security |
| | D) | cost and time |
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Which of the following statements is true? |
| | A) | Cookies are stored on your disk. |
| | B) | Persistent cookie refers to a cookie that is deleted regularly,
i.e. the system is persistent about deleting the cookie. |
| | C) | Setting a cookie means deleting a cookie. |
| | D) | Cookies do not contain any private information. |
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Which of the following is not software supporting collaborative
computing? |
| | A) | Lotus Notes |
| | B) | Novell's Groupwise |
| | C) | Microsoft Exchange |
| | D) | Visual Editor |
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Which of the following is not part of videoconferencing? |
| | A) | Audio. |
| | B) | Black and white video. |
| | C) | Whiteboard graphics. |
| | D) | Editing. |
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Which of the following statements is false? |
| | A) | Intranet is a synonym for Internet. |
| | B) | Intranet refers to a private network. |
| | C) | A firewall is a computing security measure. |
| | D) | An intranet is infrastructure for Web-based collaborative computing. |
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