Midterm_cards

Question 1

The increase in the number of computers connected on the Internet can be characterized as?
linear
exponential

Answer 1

exponential

Question 2

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

Answer 2

virtualization

Question 3

A(n) ________________________ is an agreement that specifies a common language two computers use to exchange messages.

Answer 3

communication protocol

Question 4

Using TCP, when a sender sends a data segment and the segment arrives at the intended receiver, the receiver sends back a(n) ?

Answer 4

acknowledgment

Question 5

The naming method used for computers on the Internet is ____________________________ (from left to right)

Answer 5

computer name followed by organization name followed by type of organization

Question 6

The first web browser was called ___________________

Answer 6

mosaic

Question 7

Apache is a: __________________

Answer 7

Webserver

Question 8

FTP is used for _______________________

Answer 8

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

Question 9

The main motivation for the invention of what we now call the Internet was the Cold War

Answer 9

true

Question 10

When an application, such as e-mail software or web server, sends data then it is exactly this data with nothing added that travels on the Internet
true/false?

Answer 10

false

Question 11

TCP can identify some data corruption such as 0 bits that flipped to 1 bits and vice versa or lost bits by using a checksum. t/f?

Answer 11

false

Question 12

The Internet is free.?

Answer 12

False

Question 13

Although the FTP protocol is a separate protocol of the Internet, now it is mostly incorporated in web browsers. T/F?

Answer 13

true

Question 14

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 14

Univac

Question 15

The standard concerned with creating a hierarchy of servers for resolving names of computers connected to the Internet with IP addresses is abbreviated _________________

Answer 15

DNS

Question 16

Among the first (earliest) services of the Internet, the service that allows a user to interactively run commands and work on a computer located in a physically different geographic location is called _______________.

Answer 16

Telnet

Question 17

One of the technologies that was initially formed for benevolent reasons to enable chat but is now used for malevolent reasons to mount distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) is called _____________________.

Answer 17

botnets

Question 18

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

Answer 18

byte

Question 19

_______________ is a web development environment (web editor) currently from Adobe but earlier came from Macromedia.

Answer 19

dreamweaver

Question 20

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

Answer 20

MySQL

Question 21

what are the 3 cloud computing services?

Answer 21

1-puublic
2-private
3-one between a private & public cloud. private owned but public has access to it.
Lass, Pass and SaaS

Question 22

describe the head portion of an html document..

Answer 22

HEAD section is not presented anywhere (except for the title which appears in the browser tab at the top). This section is mainly for definitions such as STYLES, SCRIPTS, AUTHOR, and so on.