2nd Six Weeks

Question 1

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) or Massively Multiplayer

Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG)

Answer 1

feature fantasy or magical themes. Players create an avatar and pay a fee to log in to access the virtual world improving their avatar’s abilities and buying in-game items.

Question 2

Cave Automated Virtual Entertainment (CAVE)

Answer 2

systems take the virtual world
concept a step further because the user stands in a small cube-like room while images of the virtual world are projected on the walls surrounding the user in the environment and creating a more immersive effect.

Question 3

Health concerns

Answer 3

o Lack of exercise

o Addiction

o Repetitive strain injury

o Death

o Violence

Question 4

Online predators

Answer 4

Target young children

Question 5

Augmented Reality

Answer 5

Technologies that add a layer of digital information to our views of the real world using a smartphone or tablet

 Point your device, shows real time info

 Could assist first responders and soldiers

Question 6

News Aggregation Sites

Answer 6

Fetch headlines and articles from many different sites and present them on a single page

Question 7

Pay Walls

Answer 7

o Aggregation sites present a summary of articles, so fewer viewers click

through to read the full article. Revenue drops.

o Some online news sources require payment to view their content.

o Users pay a small fee for unrestricted access to news content.

Question 8

Digital TV & Radio

Answer 8

 Biggest change to television services in recent years has been the move from analog to digital transmissions

 Digital signals require less bandwidth allowing for transmission in high definition

 Video on Demand (VOD)

o Allows users to catch up with TV shows and movies streamed at any time

from the Internet.

Question 9

Social News Sites

Answer 9

 The rise of Web 2.0 technologies has increased the number of community and

social news sites.

 Social news sties aggregate stories too, but also rank them based on popularity with users.

Question 10

Citizen Journalism

Answer 10

 Regular people who break news or witness of unpredictable events rather than

traditional media

 Citizen Journalism has become popular because of cell phones with cameras

and Internet access

 Allows for footage to be shot, uploaded, and shared immediately on social media

sites.

Question 11

e-Books

Answer 11

 Method of distributing electronic copies of books, magazines and newspapers

 Most e-book readers use electronic ink which is used to improve the display quality which is more comfortable to read than LCD screens.

Question 12

How has Internet revolutionized the travel industry?

Answer 12

 Online schedules

 Direct ticketing

 Continual updates

 Price comparisons

Question 13

Example of customer reviews

Answer 13

Tripadvisor

Question 14

Web 2.0 tools

Answer 14

Can provide deeper knowledge on places around the world because local residents can contribute

Question 15

Wiki

Answer 15

– What I Know Is

Question 16

How do several businesses track their vehicles?

Answer 16

RFID tags for toll way access and deduct fees as their vehicle passes

Question 17

Companies use GPS technology to….

Answer 17

track their vehicles

Question 18

remote vehicle disabling systems

Answer 18

 Can stop a vehicle in its tracks

Question 19

Route Planning

Answer 19

 Using software to improve efficiency of operations

 Better routes, shorter traffic, etc.

 Reduces fuel consumption

 Tracks employee action

Question 20

Smart Cars

Answer 20

Have sensors to provide feedback about the environment

o Provide safety and better comfort

o Can autonomously parallel park

Question 21

HTML

Answer 21

Hypertext Markup Language

Question 22

HTML - Each page is saved as?

Answer 22

a separate file with the .html extension

Question 23

HTML tags start and end with…?

Answer 23

angled brackets and control how the page appears

Question 24

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Answer 24

used to specify styling and formatting information for web pages

Question 25

Sitemaps

Answer 25

show an overview of all pages on a web site to help locate specific pages quickly

Question 26

Breadcrumb trails

Answer 26

used to let a user see exactly where they are in the site as a whole

Question 27

Accessibility

Answer 27

Web designers need to consider users with disabilities caused by limited vision, mobility, etc

Question 28

Screen readers

Answer 28

identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen

Question 29

The alt or title attribute is added to

Answer 29

descriptions to images

Question 30

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Answer 30

technique used to improve a site’s ranking in search engine results
Important because most people don’t look beyond the first page of search results

Question 31

Pop ups

Answer 31

often open while browsing and usually contain ads

Question 32

Banner ads

Answer 32

more common method of advertising and are usually across the top or down the side of a web page

Question 33

CPC – (Cost per click)

Answer 33

is money paid by the advertisers for search keywords. The price depends on how much competition there is from others for the same keyword.

Question 34

Smart home technology

Answer 34

home automation, which is building with integrated IT to improve comfort and
energy efficiency.

Question 35

Home network with

Answer 35

centralised network

Question 36

Controlled through

Answer 36

cell phones or computers