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CS Prelims (2) Flashcards

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This duo pioneered the development of the first computing engine programmed using punch cards.

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Babbage & Lovelace

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This technological advancement uses photons and subatomic particles in developing Central Processing Units (CPU).

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Quantum Computing

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ENIAC and UNIVAC used wind to process computations through this material.

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Vacuum Tubes

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Who was the first computer programmer?

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Ada Lovelace

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hese computers are super-fast that supercomputers now cannot even compare to their speeds. A report from Google even noted that a device of this kind can be 47 years faster than current traditional supercomputers. They are expected to be seen and commercialized around 2030.

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Quantum Computers

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What is the “G” in 4G and 5G networks?

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Generation

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Before you can connect to the Internet, you must identify the network using its___________

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service set identifier

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(SSID).

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service set identifier

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Real-time typed conversations by two or more people who are online at the same time

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Chat

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A website or web app that gathers, organizes, and then distributes web content

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Curation Website

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Preferred websites that you can access with a click or selecting an icon from a folder

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Favorite

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Portion of a URL that identifies one or more IP addresses

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Domain Name

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A technique that transforms a smartphone or internet-capable tablet into a portable network device that shares its Internet access with other computers and devices wirelessly

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Tethering

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Descriptive text(s) used to categorize media and other internet asset / content

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Tags

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A computer that sends back requested webpages to your browser

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Web Server

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T he ________ , originally known as the world wide web, is a service consisting of websites located
on computers around the world, connected through the
Internet.

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web

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The__________is a global collection
of millions of computers linked together to share
information.

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Internet

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A _________ is any computer or device that
provides services and connections to other computers or
devices on a network.

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host

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is the concept tl1at one website
has the same value or priority as other websites, resulting in
equal, unrestricted access to each site.

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Net neutrality

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which is a company that sells Internet access, must provide the same level of service to all websites, regardless of their content or purpose.

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an Internet service provider ,

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ISP

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Internet service provider

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is the transmission of messages and files vie computer network

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Email

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Email?

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electronic mail)

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responsible for releasing rules surrounding Internet access.

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U.S. Federal
Communication Commission

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(FCC)

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U.S. Federal
Communication Commission

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sets standards that
allow devices, services, and applications to work together across the
Internet.

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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

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IETF

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The Internet Engineering Task Force

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, which consists of hundreds of organizations and experts that work
together to write web standards.

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World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C)

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(W3C)

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World Wide Web Consortium

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is a specially formatted document that can contain text, graphics, sound, video, and links to other webpages.

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webpage

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often shortened to links, are words or graphics you can click to
display a webpage or other resources on the Internet, such
as a file.

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Hyperlinks,

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you see the same content each time.

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static webpage,

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, by contrast, the content of the
webpage is regenerated each time you display it.

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a dynamic webpage

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34
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is a computer that delivers requested web-
pages to your computer or mobile device.

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web server

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A collection of related webpages (often shortened to
“pages”) and associated items, such as documents and
photos, stored on a web server makes up a

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website.

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users view websites on a
variety of computers and devices, many website developers
use an approach called

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responsive web design (RWD)

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(RWD)

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responsive web design

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is a set of code that developers use to specify
the headings, paragraphs, images, links, and other content
elements that a webpage contains

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HTML (Hypertext Markup
Language)

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HTML

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(Hypertext Markup
Language)

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is used to specify the content’s
design and appearance.

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CSS
(cascading style sheets)

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CSS

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(cascading style sheets)

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42
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To access content on the web, you use a ___________

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browser,

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43
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As you navigate websites, your browser keeps a copy
of each page you view in a holding area called the

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cache,

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44
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Websites often use ___________ which
are small text files generated by a web server to store
information, such as items you view or purchase on an
e-commerce site.

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cookies,

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45
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The
__________ in a browser includes buttons, such as
Back and Forward, that you can use to revisit webpages
along the breadcrumb path.

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navigation bar

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, an address that identifies the location
of the page on the Internet

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web address or uniform resource
locator (URL)

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(URL)

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uniform resource locator

48
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which is a common set of rules for exchanging
information.

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protocol,

49
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is the portion
of a URL that identifies one or more IP addresses,

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domain name

50
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A browser displays the URL for the current
webpage in its

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address bar

51
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address, the three-letter extension after the
period indicates a

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top-level domain (TLD),

52
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(TLD),

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top-level domain

53
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Internet. These major carriers of network traffic are
known collectively as the

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Internet backbone.

54
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) is the method that the
Internet uses to store domain names and their corresponding
IP addresses.

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The domain name system (DNS

55
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(DNS

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The domain name system

56
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is software designed to locate relevant webpages by creating a
simple query based on your search criteria and storing the collected data in a search database.

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A search engine

57
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is a wireless network device that provides Internet connec-
tions to mobile computers and devices.

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hot spot

58
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enables you to connect a phone, computer, or other device
to the Internet through the cellular network

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mobile hot spot

59
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is equal to approximately one million characters,

A

A megabyte
(MB)

60
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is equal to approximately one
billion characters.

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gigabyte (GB)

61
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Wireless networks that
are available in public places, such as hotels, restaurants,
and coffee shops, are known as

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Wi-Fi hot spots.

62
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contains factual information.

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An informational
and research website

63
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is a website that
enables members to organize, tag, and share links to media
and other online content

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bookmarking site

64
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contain
stories and articles relating to current events, life, money,
politics, weather, technology trends,
and sports.

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News,
weather, sports, and other mass media websites

65
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offers formal
and informal teaching and learning.

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An educational website

66
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is an
informal website consisting of time-stamped articles, or
posts, in a diary or journal format, usually listed in reverse
chronological order.

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A blog (originated from the term, web log)

67
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A blog

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web log)

68
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refers to the
worldwide collection of blogs.

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blogosphere

69
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As the web becomes more
interactive, an increasing amount of content is supplied
by users. You

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Wikis and Collaboration

70
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Real-time typed conversations by two or more people who are online at the same time

A

Chat

71
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A website or web app that gathers, organizes, and then distributes web content

A

Curation Website

72
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Preferred websites that you can access with a click or selecting an icon from a folder

A

Favorite

73
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Portion of a URL that identifies one or more IP addresses

A

Domain Name

74
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Descriptive text(s) used to categorize media and other internet asset / content

A

Tags

75
Q

Many websites provide up-to-
date medical, fitness, nutrition, or exercise information

for public access.

A

Health and Fitness

76
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contain information about
space exploration, astronomy, physics, earth sciences,
microgravity, robotics, and other branches of science.

A

Science website

77
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offers music,
videos, shows, performances, events, sports, games, and
more in an interactive and engaging environment. On
entertainment websites,

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entertainment website

78
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Online banking and online
trading enable users to access their financial records
from anywhere in the world, provided they have an
Internet connection.

A

Banking and Finance

79
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enable users to research travel options and make travel
arrangements.

A

Travel and tourism websites

80
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Several mapping websites and web apps exist that
enable you to display up-to-date maps by searching for an
address, postal code, phone number, or point of interest

A

Mapping

81
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You can purchase just about any
product or service on the web.

A

Retail and Auctions

82
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You can search the web
for career information and job openings.

A

Careers and Employment

83
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is a website that combines pages from
many sources and provides access to those pages.

A

portal

84
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site,
sometimes called a curation website, such as News360 or
Flipboard, gathers, organizes, and then distributes web content

A

content aggregator

85
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, which
are apps you can run entirely in a browser.

A

web apps

86
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short for electronic commerce, is a business
transaction that occurs over an electronic network, such
as the Internet

A

E-commerce,

87
Q

E-commerce, ???

A

electronic commerce

88
Q

consists of
the sale of goods and services to the general public, such
as at a shopping website.

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Business-to-consumer e-commerce

89
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when one consumer sells directly to another, such as in
an online auction.

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Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce occurs

90
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occurs
when businesses provide goods and services to other
businesses, such as online advertising, recruiting, credit,
sales, market research, technical support, and training.

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Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce

91
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is a security method that scrambles
or codes data as it is transmitted over a network so that it is
not readable until it is decrypted.

A

Encryption

92
Q

_______ are used to verify a user’s identity with a digital
key that has been “signed” by a trusted third party

A

digital certificate

93
Q

is a filtering pro-
gram that stops pop-up ads from displaying on webpages;

similarly, a pop-under blocker stops pop-under ads.

A

A pop-up blocker

94
Q

is a
standard protocol for securing credit card transactions over
the Internet.

A

3D Secure

95
Q

to encrypt data. This helps
protect consumers and businesses from fraud and identity
theft when conducting commerce on the Internet.

A

Transport Layer Security (TLS)

96
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(TLS)

A

Transport Layer Security

97
Q

is a media file, such as a graphic, sound, ani-
mation, or movie, that you can add to documents and

webpages.

A

clip

98
Q

or electronic mailing list, is
a group of email addresses

A

An email list,

99
Q

or threaded
discussion, consists of the original article and all
subsequent related replies.

A

thread

100
Q

is a file that
contains video and audio; it is usually offered as part of a
subscription to a podcasting service.

A

video podcast

101
Q

, short for web-based seminar, is a
presentation an audience accesses over the web that shows
a shared view of the presenter’s screen and may also include
audio and video of the presenter and allow for audience

participation.

A

webinar

102
Q

refers to voice
communications over the Internet and is sometimes called
Internet telephony.

A

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

103
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(VoIP)

A

Voice over Internet Protocol

104
Q

, also called a social networking site, is a
website that encourages members in its online community
to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music, and
videos with other registered users.

A

social network

105
Q

, such as YouTube or Flickr, you
can manage media such as photos, videos, and music and share
them with other site members.

A

a media sharing site

106
Q

s let purchasers post online ratings and
reviews of practically any product or service.

A

Consumer review network

107
Q

let you have online
conversations on any topic.

A

Discussion forum networks

108
Q

, which
is the ability to find, evaluate, use, and communicate online
information.

A

information literacy

109
Q

is software
that combs the web to find webpages and add new data
about them to the database,

A

A spider or crawler

110
Q

is a search term entered into a search engine
on the web to obtain results.

A

A query

111
Q

You can also refine a web search by using a

A

search operator,

112
Q

gives authors and artists the legal right to
sell, publish, or distribute an original work.

A

copyright

113
Q

which is a collection of technologies
used by software publishers and trade groups to fight software
piracy (theft) and prevent unauthorized copying of digital
content; includes authentication, certificates of authenticity,

A

digital rights
management (DRM),

114
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(DRM),

A

digital rights
management

115
Q

= which means that
the item, such as a photo, is available and accessible to the
public without requiring permission to use;

A

public domain,

116
Q

allows you
to use a sentence or paragraph of text without permission
if you include a citation to the original source.

A

fair use doctrine

117
Q

is a nonprofit organization
that helps content creators keep copyright to their materials
while allowing others to use, copy, or distribute their work.

A

Creative Commons (CC)

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