Introduction

Question 0

Explain extranet

Answer 0

A private network that shares selected parts of an organizations information with external partners such as suppliers or customers

Question 1

Explain intranet

Answer 1

Private network contained within an organization

Question 2

What is the World Wide Web?

Answer 2

Gives access to the internet through http protocol, HTML, Internet connectivity, easy-to-use operating systems and a graphical browser

Question 3

What is the internet?

Answer 3

Interconnected network of computers. (The first four were at UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and UofU)

Question 4

What is a client?

Answer 4

The computer work stations used by individuals, such as a personal computer on a desk

Question 5

What is a server?

Answer 5

Receives requests for files from clients

Question 6

Explain the hardware in a network

Answer 6

Networking devices such as hubs and switches provide network connections for computers and routers direction information from one network to another.

Question 7

What does the media in a network do?

Answer 7

Connects the clients, servers and peripherals and may consist of copper cables, fiber optic cables or wireless technologies

Question 8

What does MIME stand for?

Answer 8

Multipurpose internet mail extension

Question 9

What are the 7 media types for MIME?

Answer 9

Audio, video, image, application, message, multipart, and text

Question 10

List internet protocols

Answer 10

FTP file transfer protocol
SMTP simple mail transfer protocol
HTTP hypertext transfer protocol
TCP Transmission Control Protocol 
And IP internet protocol

Question 11

Each device connected to the internet has a unique numeric________

Answer 11

Address (called an IP address)

Question 12

DNS stands for

Answer 12

Domain name system and it was created so you don’t have to remember long IP addresses

Question 13

Give an example of a sub domain

Answer 13

Gmail.google.com

Question 14

What is a TLD?

Answer 14

Top level domain (.com .org etc)

Question 15

What happens when you type in a new URL?

Answer 15

The DNS is accessed.
The corresponding IP address is obtained and returned to the web browser.
The browser sends an HTTP request to the destination computer at the corresponding IP address.
Server receives the request, locates the files and replies.
The web browser renders and displays the web page and files.

Question 16

Where does blog come from?

Answer 16

Web log

Question 17

What is microblogging?

Answer 17

Frequently communicating with a brief message (140 characters or less) such as tweeting

Question 18

What are examples of cloud commuting?

Answer 18

Google drive, Microsoft 365, blogs, wikis, and social networking sites are all accessed via the internet (“the cloud”)

Question 19

What is RSS?

Answer 19

Really simple syndication…used to creat newsfeed a from blogs and other websites, they contain a summary of news items posted to the site. A newsreader is needed to access the information.

Question 20

What is Web 2.0?

Answer 20

The next step in transition from isolated static web pages to a platform with rich interfaces