chap 1-5 quiz study for exams

Question 1

the internet is characterized as _________

Answer 1

a network of networks

Question 2

At the time the idea of the Internet was conceived, computers were large and few. One of them called ____________________ belonged to the Census Bureau.

Answer 2

UNIVAC 1

Question 3

The idea of an internetwork was conceived by ____________________________

Answer 3

Depart of Defense in the late 1960s

Question 4

The name of the first version of what later became the Internet was ________________________.

Answer 4

ARPANET

Question 5

In order to standardize the way networked systems communicated, the ______________________ was created.

Answer 5

TCP/IP

Question 6

The cloud computing service where one or more servers with significant amounts of processing power, capacity, and memory, are configured through hardware and/or software methods act as though they are multiple smaller systems that add up to their capacity is usually abbreviated _________________________

Answer 6

IaaS: infrastructure as a service (cloud computing using virtualization)

Question 7

Growth of the Internet can be characterized as _________________________

Answer 7

exponential

Question 8

People who exploit weaknesses in equipment on the Internet to cause damage to disrupt the services that people rely on are called ______________ (choose the best answer)

Answer 8

hackers

Question 9

The __________________ is a future Internet that is soon to be awash with live connections from everything from cars to ovens and refrigerators.

Answer 9

internet of things

Question 10

The standard concerned with naming computers connected to the Internet is abbreviated _________________

Answer 10

DNS: domain name servers

Question 11

Which of the following is likely to be the suffix of a Universal Resource Locator (URL) for a non-profit institution such as United Way _________________.

Answer 11

.org

Question 12

Which of the following was among the first (earliest) services of the Internet? ______________.

Answer 12

remote login

Question 13

_______________________ is running multiple operating systems and other software on the same physical hardware at the same time.

Answer 13

Virtualization

Question 14

Computers at a site connect to a local network which connects to a regional network which in turn connects to a national network then international. This means the Internet forms a(n) ____________.

Answer 14

hierarchy

Question 15

Which of the following were initially formed for benevolent reasons to enable chat? _______________.

Answer 15

Botnets

Question 16

Conducting business over the World Wide Web is called __________________

Answer 16

eCommerce

Question 17

The database component in the web software commonly abbreviated as LAMP is ___________________.

Answer 17

MySQL

Question 18

Instead of users remembering computer IP addresses as numbers, names called ____________________ are given to computers reachable through the Internet.

Answer 18

Universal Resource Locators

Question 19

One of the disadvantages of web publishing compared to traditional publishing (newspapers, broadcast TV, radio) is _____________________.

Answer 19

due to there being too many web sites, users have problems finding relevant material

accessible by more people

Question 20

Which of the following is a web editor (web development platform)? _____________________

Answer 20

Dreamweaver

Question 21

FTP is used for _______________________

Answer 21

user to open an interactive session of copying messages between the user’s and a recipient’s computer.

Question 22

Data sent using IP on the Internet can be lost, can have errors introduced into it, or can arrive in duplicate. TCP was designed to work with IP so that these problems can be eliminated and data transmission can be ___________________ and error-free.

Answer 22

reliable

Question 23

When IP is sending data in a datagram from one computer to a receiving computer on a different network, network systems that sit at the borders of the different networks examine the datagram’s _______________ IP address to determine where to send the datagram.

Answer 23

destination

Question 24

The computer stores an Internet Protocol version 4 address in four ________________ or blocks.

Answer 24

bytes

Question 25

Most implementations of the protocol stack, such as TCP/IP, use four or five layers whereas the OSI model has 7 layers. Which of the following is a in OSI 7 layer model but not TCP/IP? ________________.

Answer 25

session

Question 26

Access to the Internet from a computer or smartphone can be through ______________________

Answer 26

Correct

either through wired cables or non-wired methods

Question 27

Apache is a: __________________.

Answer 27

webserver

Question 28

A(n) __________________ switching system permits multiple pairs of computers to communicate across a shared network by dividing data to be transmitted into small chunks and making an arrangement so that computers sharing the network take turns sending chunks.

Answer 28

packet