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1. ISP is an acronym of:
(a) Internal Service Provider
(b) Internet Service Procedure
(c) Internet Service Provider
(d) Internet Service Protocol
ISP provides internet access.
2. FTP stands for:
(a) Fast Text Processing
(b) File Transfer Program
(c) File Transfer Process
(d) File Transfer Protocol
FTP transfers files.
3. Telnet is:
(a) A telephone network
(b) A seller network
(c) A standard internet protocol for remote login
(d) A dialup program
Telnet gives remote login to another computer.
4. LAN is the acronym for:
(a) Local Area Network
(b) Logical Area Network
(c) Local Area Number
(d) None of the above
LAN = Local Area Network.
5. The term used to connect a number of computers within the same location or in close proximity is:
(a) LAN
(b) WAN
(c) PAN
(d) All of the above
A LAN covers a small area.
6. Ethernet is a family of protocols used in:
(a) LAN
(b) Internet
(c) Extranet
(d) None of the above
Ethernet is the main wired LAN technology.
7. MAN stands for:
(a) Metropolitan Area Network
(b) Manual Area Network
(c) Marginal Area Network
(d) Maximum Area Network
MAN covers a city.
8. A network in which some links between nodes are carried by open connections or virtual circuits in a larger network (such as the internet) is a:
(a) Virtual private network
(b) Virtual public network
(c) Virtual private net
(d) Virtual public net
This describes a VPN.
9. The address for a specific document found on the web is termed:
(a) HTTP
(b) URL
(c) ISP
(d) None of the above
The URL locates a document.
10. Which organises the web into categories?
(a) Search engine
(b) Encyclopedia
(c) Archive
(d) Directory
Web directories sort sites by category.
11. USB stands for:
(a) United Serial Bus
(b) Universal Serial By-Pass
(c) Universal Serial Bus
(d) Universal System Bus
USB = Universal Serial Bus.
12. ISDN stands for:
(a) Integrated Standard Digital Network
(b) Integrated Services Digital Network
(c) Intelligent Services Digital Network
(d) Image Services Digital Network
ISDN = Integrated Services Digital Network.
13. Which domain extension is used for network gateways and administrative hosts?
(a) .gov
(b) .net
(c) .mil
(d) .org
.net was meant for network infrastructure.
14. '.com', '.org' and '.net' are popular as:
(a) Top-level domains
(b) Tax-level domains
(c) Terrific-level domains
(d) None of the above
They are generic top-level domains (TLDs).
15. A tool that sends a user request to several search engines and combines the results is a:
(a) Metasearch engine
(b) Google
(c) Moodle
(d) None of the above
Examples: Dogpile, MetaCrawler.
16. Which symbol separates the username from the domain in an email address?
(a) $
(b) @
(c) %
(d) *
Format: username@domain.
17. The size of the IPv4 is:
(a) 16 bits
(b) 32 bits
(c) 64 bits
(d) 128 bits
IPv4 = 32 bits; IPv6 = 128 bits.
18. Unsolicited commercial email is usually referred to as:
(a) Junk
(b) Hoaxes
(c) Spam
(d) Hypertext
Spam = unwanted bulk email.
19. To search FTP archives in a file, the tool used is:
(a) Gopher
(b) Jughead
(c) Archie
(d) Jalopy
Archie searches FTP archives.
20. Which monitors postings and enforces the site's rules in a newsgroup?
(a) Judge
(b) Sysop
(c) Narrator
(d) Censor
A sysop (system operator) manages a forum.
21. A message with replies in a newsgroup is often called a:
(a) List
(b) Thread
(c) Comment
(d) Post
A thread is a message plus its replies.
22. S/MIME in internet technology stands for:
(a) Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
(b) Secure Multimedia Internet Mail Extension
(c) Simple Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
(d) Simple Multimedia Internet Mail Extension
S/MIME secures email.
23. A small text file a web server stores on your hard drive when you visit certain websites is called a:
(a) Cookie
(b) History
(c) Loginum
(d) None of the above
Cookies remember preferences and sessions.
24. Which software allows users to surf the internet?
(a) Search engine
(b) Internet service provider
(c) Multimedia
(d) Browser
A browser displays web pages.
25. Twitter is a/an:
(a) Program
(b) Micro-blogging site
(c) (a) and (b) both
(d) None of these
Twitter is a micro-blogging/social network.
26. Statement I: Search engines are websites that help a user to search for information on the WWW. Statement II: For any search term, search engines provide the exact same results to all users. 2021
(a) Both statements are true
(b) Both statements are false
(c) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
(d) Statement I is false but Statement II is true
Results vary by user, location and algorithm.
27. The file extension of an MS Windows sound file is: Dec 2018