Exam 2

Question 1

Absolute Reference

Answer 1

• to keep a row and/or column constant

- $

Question 2

BBS

Answer 2

(bulletin board system)

• grand father of webpages
• start of social media revolution

Question 3

Blog

Answer 3

diary

Question 4

Bootup

Answer 4

start up a computer system

Question 5

Browser Cache

Answer 5

• a folder that makes up webpages

- temporary

Question 6

Browser Extension

Answer 6

small software module for customizing a web browser.
-ex: ad block

Question 7

Copyleft

Answer 7

work may be used, modified, and distributed freely

Question 8

Cookie

Answer 8

small flies that stay on your computer & stored by your web browser
➛ session: stays while your computer is on, deleted after closed
➛ 1st party: a website you trust
➛ 3rd party:

Question 9

Creative Commons

Answer 9

5 rights
(1) attribution: giving credit
(2) share a like: protects owner of created work
(3) no derivatives: taking original work and passing it as their own
(4) public domain: copyright expired, free to use/distribute/copy
(5) transformative work: repackaging work and providing meaning to original work

Question 10

Crowdsourcing

Answer 10

(lots of people)

- contributing information and time into a task/project with a large group of people via the internet.

Question 11

CSS

Answer 11

(cascading stylesheets)

-language used for describing the look and formatting of a document

Question 12

Disk partition

Answer 12

disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage

Question 13

Email protocols

Answer 13

accessing email on a remote web server from a local client
-POP3: (Protocol Version 3)
uses an app
-IMAP: (Internet Message Access Protocol)
there until deleted
-SMTP: (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
-sending email
-IM: (Instant Messaging)
on at the same time

Question 14

EULA

Answer 14

(End User License Agreement)

is a legal contract between a software application author or publisher and the user of that application

Question 15

File naming conventions

Answer 15

framework for naming your files in a way that describes what they contain and how they relate to other files

Question 16

Formatting

Answer 16

process of preparing a data storage device

Question 17

Formula format

Answer 17

= (equal sign) to start the formula in excel

Question 18

Geocoding

Answer 18

finding locations

ex) bridges

Question 19

Geosocial Networking

Answer 19

• used to enable additional social dynamics.
• crowd sourcing, geotagging, geocoding
• ex) a place. yelp/ 4square/ google maps

Question 20

Geotagging

Answer 20

longitude, latitude

Question 21

HTML

Answer 21

(hypertext markup language)

Question 22

HTML Tag

Answer 22

code that defines every structure of a page.
➛ text, image, hypertext link placements
➛ < and >

Question 23

Intellectual Property

Answer 23

created from the mind

ex) art and music. tv shows, movies, pictures, songs

Question 24

Metadata tag

Answer 24

specific search/key words

Question 25

Microblog

Answer 25

mini diary | ex) twitter

Question 26

Multiprocessing

Answer 26

(speed) running of two or more programs/sequences of instructions simultaneously

Question 27

Multitasking

Answer 27

execute more than one program or task simultaneously.

Question 28

Multithreading

Answer 28

(responsiveness) | processing of multiple threads/programs at one time

Question 29

Open Source

Answer 29

original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

Question 30

Passwords

Answer 30

secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to something.

Question 31

Physical File Storage

Answer 31

contain the actual data that is stored on the system

Question 32

Plugin

Answer 32

is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program

Question 33

Portable Software

Answer 33

(ex: usb) | software product designed to be easily moved from one computing environment to another

Question 34

Root Directory

Answer 34

is the top-level directory of a file system

Question 35

Service Pack

Answer 35

- updating | - released update to software from a manufacturer

Question 36

Setup program

Answer 36

installs a program on your computer

Question 37

Shareware

Answer 37

available free of charge, after which a fee may be requested for continued use.

Question 38

Social Discovery

Answer 38

-sharing location and finding friends nearby

Question 39

Social Networking

Answer 39

- person/relationship | - applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself

Question 40

Sociograms

Answer 40

graphic representation of social links that a person has

Question 41

Spreadsheet

Answer 41

electronic document in which data is arranged in the rows and columns of a grid and can be manipulated and used in calculations.

Question 42

URL

Answer 42

(uniform resource locator) | -identifies/locates webpages

Question 43

Web Crawler

Answer 43

(aka web spider) | - visits million of webpages and collects information

Question 44

Webpage

Answer 44

text only document

Question 45

Website

Answer 45

selection of webpages linked together to compromise a website

Question 46

Wiki

Answer 46

Hawaiian word for fast

Question 47

WWW

Answer 47

(world wide web) | database