Deck 1: Introduction to Computers and the Internet

Question 1

URL is an acronym for which of the following

A) Uniform Resource Locator
B) Uniform Record Locator
C) Universal Resource Location
D) Uniform Resource Location

Answer 1

A

Question 2

An Internet ________ maintains a database of hostnames and their corresponding IP addresses and performs the translations automatically.

A) Domain Name System (DNS) server
B) host
C) address
D) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The ________ standard specifies data formats, which programs can use to interpret data correctly.

A) Data Translation Standard (DTS)
B) Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
C) HTML5
D) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Each computer on the Internet has a unique ________.

A) e-Mail address
B) Transmission Control Protocol
C) IP address
D) Both (b) and (c)

Question 5

When the user clicks a hyperlink, a ________ locates the requested web page and sends it to the user's web browser.

A) URL
B) web server
C) host
D) packet

Question 6

XE "JavaScript library:jQuery" XE "jQuery JavaScript Library" ________ simplifies JavaScript programming by making it easier to manipulate a web page's elements and interact with servers in a portable manner across various web browsers.

A) jQuery
B) JavaScriptQuery
C) CSS3
D) PHP

Question 7

________ is used to specify the presentation, or styling, of elements on a web page (e.g., fonts, spacing, sizes, colors, positioning).

A) HyperText Markup Language (HTML5)
B) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
C) JavaScript
D) PHP

Question 8

Which of the following is a server-side programming technology used to build web pages

A) HTML5.
B) CSS3.
C) PHP.
D) JavaScript.

Question 9

An XE "HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)" HTTP request often posts data to a(n) ________ that processes the data.

A) event handler
B) MIME
C) server-side form handler
D) query string

Question 10

________ wrote communication protocols to form the backbone the World Wide Web.

A) Dale Dougherty
B) Bill Gates
C) Marc Andreessen
D) Tim Berners-Lee

Question 11

_______ XE "JavaScript" is a language that helps you build dynamic web pages (i.e., pages that can be modified "on the fly" in response to events, such as user input, time changes and more) and computer applications.

A) XML
B) CSS3
C) HTML5
D) JavaScript

Question 12

The latest IP standard is ________

A) Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
B) Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
C) Internet Protocol version 5 (IPv5)
D) None of the above.

Question 13

The ________ allows people worldwide to donate their unused computer-processing power, harnessing unused capacity.

A) World Community Grid
B) cloud computing
C) Internet TV
D) GPS

Question 14

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a special type of computer language called a(n) XE "markup language" ________ language designed to specify the XE "document:content" XE "content of a document" content and XE "document:structure" XE "structure of a document" structure of XE "web page" web pages (also called XE "document" documents) in a portable manner.

A) scripting
B) markup
C) object-oriented programming
D) procedural programming

Question 15

The protocol for communicating over the ARPANET became known as ________.

A) TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
B) packet switching
C) the Internet
D) JavaScript

Question 16

________ is a technique in which digital data is sent in small bundles that contain address, error-control and sequencing information.

A) TCP/IP
B) Routing
C) Packet switching
D) Bandwidth

Question 17

Which of the following is most closely associated with Moore's Law

A) Every year or two, the price of computers has approximately doubled.
B) Object-oriented programming uses less memory than previous software-development methodologies.
C) Demand for communications bandwidth is decreasing dramatically each year.
D) Every year or two, the capacities of computers have approximately doubled without any increase in price.

Question 18

The two most common XE "HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol):request type" HTTP request types (also known as request methods) are ________ and ________.

A) query, post
B) get, post
C) retrieve, send
D) retrieve, post

Question 19

Which of the following statements is false

A) There are more than two billion Internet users worldwide-approximately 30% of the Earth's population.
B) In use today are more than a billion general-purpose computers, and billions more embedded computers are used in cell phones, smartphones, tablet computers, home appliances, automobiles and more-and many of these devices are connected to the Internet.
C) Client-side programming technologies are used to build applications that are run on the server.
D) Both (b) and (c)

Question 20

The in the URL www.google.com/search q=deitel separates the ________ from the rest of the URL in a request.

A) URI
B) post request
C) query string
D) cache

Question 21

In multitier applications, the ________ maintains the application's data.

A) middle tier
B) top tier (or client tier)
C) bottom tier (also called the XE "data tier" data tier or the XE "information tier" information tier)
D) business logic tier

Question 22

A ________ is an electronic collection of data that's organized for easy access and manipulation.

A) field
B) database
C) record
D) file

Question 23

Web 2.0 embraces a(n) ________-a design that encourages user interaction and community contributions.

A) architecture of participation
B) semantic web
C) architecture of trust
D) social network

Question 24

________ founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)-devoted to developing nonproprietary, interoperable technologies for the World Wide Web.

A) Bill Gates
B) Tim Berners-Lee
C) Dale Dougherty
D) Linus Torvalds

Question 25

A ________ is an applications-development methodology XE "mashups" in which you can rapidly develop powerful and intriguing applications by combining (often free) complementary web services and other forms of information feeds.

A) collaborative design
B) smash
C) mashup
D) sematic web

Question 26

Web-based applications are often multitier applications, sometimes referred to as ________ applications.

A) m-tier
B) business-logic
C) data-tier
D) n-tier

Question 27

A ________ is a group of characters or bytes that conveys meaning.

A) database
B) record
C) character set
D) field

Question 28

The middle-tie_______ processes client requests (such as requests to view a product catalog) and retrieves data from the database.

A) business logic
B) controller logic
C) presentation logic
D) business rules

Question 29

Web technologies standardized by the W3C are called ________.

A) Rules
B) Standards
C) Recommendations
D) Regulations

Question 30

________ with JavaScript can be used to validate user input, to interact with the browser, to enhance web pages, and to add client/server communication between a browser and a web server.

A) Client-side scripting
B) Business rules
C) Server-side scripting
D) None of the above.

Question 31

The smallest data item in a computer, called a ________, can assume the value 0 or the value 1.

A) bit
B) character
C) field
D) digit