Lesson 5: Internet Basics

Question 1

A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocol.

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Internet

Question 2

A commercial organization with permanent connection to the Internet that sells temporary connections to subscribers.

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Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Question 3

A physical, hardcoded identifier that distinguishes that device on a network, assigned from an NIC card.

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MAC Address

Question 4

A statistically or dynamically assigned address on a device network through the DHCP protocol.

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IP Address

Question 5

A networking device that sends data to the appropriate device within the LAN, using an ARP table that matches each IP address to a MAC address.

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Switch/Router

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A device that serves as bridge between a LAN and a WAN.

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Modem

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The combination of both a switch/router and a modem.

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Gateway

Question 8

The protocol that allows for communication within a LAN.

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Ethernet

Question 9

The protocol that allows for wireless communication within a WLAN.

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802.11

Question 10

It is a way of exchanging information between computers on the Internet.

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World Wide Web

Question 11

The network of pages of images, texts and sounds on the Internet which can be viewed using browser software.

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World Wide Web

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These run on sophisticated hardware.

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Servers

Question 13

To dominant implementations.

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Clients/browsers

Question 14

Many interesting implementations.

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Caches

Question 15

The global infrastructure which facilitates data transfer.

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Internet

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HTTP

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Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

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HTML

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Hyper Text Markup Language

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XML

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Extensible Markup Language

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URIs

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Uniform Resource Identifiers

Question 20

An infrastructure of information combined and the network software used to access it.

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The Web

Question 21

A document that contains or references various kinds of data.

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Web page

Question 22

A software tool that retrieves and displays web pages.

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Web browser

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A computer set up to respond to requests for web pages.

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Web server

Question 24

It is a collection of related web pages including: Entertainment, advocacy, personal, and etc.

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Website

Question 25

It provides a set of rules and standards that govern how information is transmitted on the WWW.

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HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Question 26

It is the Web's application-layer protocol for transferring various forms of data between server and client.

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HTTP

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A software that hosts websites via Internet.

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Web servers

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How do web browsers communicate with web browser?

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HyperText Transfer Protocol

Question 29

In this server, you get a centrally-located pool of disk space to store and share different documents in the form of emails for network users. All data is stored in a single location and so, administrators need to backup files only from one computer.

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Mail Server

Question 30

It acts as a set of components which can be accessed by the software developer via an API defined by the platform itself.

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Application Server

Question 31

These components are usually performed in the environment similar to its web server(s) for the web applications with the main job of supporting the construction of dynamic pages.

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Application Server

Question 32

It uses separate control and data connections between the client and the server. This server also authorizes itself in the form of a username and password.

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Protocol

Question 33

A computer program that offers database services to other computer programs or computers with the use of client-server functionality.

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Database Service

Question 34

This type of server is accessible either via a "front end" that runs on the user's computer where the request is made or the "back end" where it is served such as data analysis and storage.

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Database Server

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A computer server that hosts a network service for offering responses to queries which maps either an addressing component or numeric identification. This is done by the server to give response to a network service protocol request.

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Domain Name System (DNS) Server

Question 36

It is a type of software that allows you to find and view websites on the Internet.

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Web browser

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Its primary function is to render HTML.

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Web browser

Question 38

It is the code used to design or markup webpages which may include text, links, and references to images and other items, such as cascading style sheets and JavaScript functions.

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HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

Question 39

It is the fundamental network identification for any resource connected to the web, utilizing a web address.

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Uniform Resource Locator

Question 40

A server that is specifically used for matching website hostnames to their corresponding IP address.

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DNS Server

Question 41

It contains a database of public IP addresses and their corresponding domain names.

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DNS Server

Question 42

It is the unique name that identifies an Internet site and email address.

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Domain Name

Question 43

It is a program that searchers for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used specifically for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web.

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Search Engine

Question 44

The code language used to create Hypertext documents for use on the World Wide Web.

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HTML

Question 45

It is the standard used to secure the exchanging of files over the Internet.

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Question 46

The transferring of files from the client to the server.

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Uploading

Question 47

The transferring of files from a server to a client.

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Downloading

Question 48

It is a small text file that a web server stores on your local computer's hard disk, containing information about your visit to the site.

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Cookie

Question 49

It is the collection and analysis of data regarding website usage, typically used by website owners to track the number and behavior of users visiting their sites.

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Web analytics

Question 50

Any resource that is provided over the Internet.

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Cloud service

Question 51

It is a network security device that monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic and decides whether to allow or block specific traffic based on a defined set of Security rules.

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Firewall