Deck 4: Telecommunications and Networking

Question 1

Bluetooth is used in a ________.

A) LAN
B) MAN
C) PAN
D) WAN

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The reason most Eritreans don't use the internet is it _________.

A) costs too much
B) is illegal
C) is too slow
D) isn't secure

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The _________ layer of the TCP/IP reference model breaks messages into packets and determines their order.

A) Application
B) Internet
C) Network interface
D) Transport

Answer 3

D

Question 4

___________ is the least connected country on Earth.

A) Djibouti
B) Ethiopia
C) Eritrea
D) Sudan

Question 5

Today, computer networks communicate via ______ signals; originally, the US public telephone system was a(n) _________ network.

A) analog; digital
B) analog; fiber
C) digital; analog
D) digital; fiber

Question 6

_______ is an advantage of twisted-pair wire.

A) Difficult to tap
B) Difficult to work with
C) High bandwidth
D) Widely available

Question 7

Most _________ today use Ethernet.

A) LANs
B) MANs
C) PANs
D) WANs

Question 8

The _________ layer of the TCP/IP reference model handles the receipt of packets.

A) Application
B) Internet
C) Network interface
D) Transport

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a reason large telecommunications companies want to transition from twisted-pair copper wire networks to IP systems?

A) Carriers want to increase their stock prices.
B) It would be less expensive to provide cellular coverage in rural areas with small populations.
C) Landlines are becoming much less profitable.
D) POTS uses more power for landlines than cellular coverage does.

Question 10

In February 2015, the FCC proposed new rules defining broadband as the transmission capacity of a communications medium faster than ________ for download and ________ for upload.

A) 4 Kbps; 25 Kbps
B) 4 Mbps; 25 Mbps
C) 25 Kbps; 4 Kbps
D) 25 Mbps; 4 Mbps

Question 11

__________ modems convert digital signals to analog for transmission over a telephone line.

A) Dial-up
B) DSL
C) Cable
D) Fiber

Question 12

___________ is running a trial program in Carbon Hill, Alabama to eliminate landline telephones.

A) AT&T
B) Google
C) Sprint
D) Verizon

Question 13

Eritea is one of only two African coastal nations with no ________ connections.

A) Coaxial cable
B) Fiber-optic
C) Satellite
D) Twisted-pair

Question 14

________ cables are made of glass.

A) Coaxial
B) Fiber-optic
C) Radio broadcast
D) Twisted-pair

Question 15

Large telecommunications companies want to get rid of their __________ networks.

A) Coaxial cable
B) Fiber-optic cable
C) Radio broadcast
D) Twisted-pair wire

Question 16

Global communications services providers support the use of ______.

A) LANs
B) MANs
C) PANs
D) WANs

Question 17

The various types of computer networks from smallest to largest are _______.

A) LAN, PAN, MAN, WAN
B) LAN, PAN, WAN, MAN
C) PAN, LAN, MAN, WAN
D) PAN, LAN, WAN, MAN

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT a reason computer networks are essential to modern organizations?

A) Networked computer systems enable organizations to become more flexible so that they can adapt to rapidly changing business conditions.
B) Networks protect hardware, computer applications, and data so that outsiders can't access proprietary resources.
C) Networks make it possible for geographically dispersed employees and workgroups to share documents, ideas, and creative insights.
D) Networks are a critical link between businesses, their business partners, and their customers.

Question 19

HTTP is a protocol in the ________ layer of the TCP/IP reference model.

A) Application
B) Internet
C) Network interface
D) Transport

Question 20

____________ is a disadvantage of fiber-optic cable.

A) Easily tapped
B) Difficult to work with
C) Slow
D) Subject to interference

Question 21

______ is the most widely used IP addressing scheme and consists of ______ bits.

A) IPv4; 32
B) IPv4; 128
C) IPv6; 32
D) IPv6; 128

Question 22

Your company allows suppliers to manage your inventory (i.e. VMI) by giving them access to your company's internal system. This is an ___________.

A) Extranet
B) Externet
C) Internet
D) Intranet

Question 23

An _________ is a network within a single organization.

A) Extranet
B) Externet
C) Internet
D) Intranet

Question 24

Working from home is referred to as ___________.

A) Homing
B) Outsourcing
C) Telecommuting
D) VPNing

Question 25

__________ connect to one another through _______.

A) CXPs; ISPs
B) ISPs; NAPs
C) NAPs; ISPs
D) NAPs; CXPs

Question 26

Email is part of the __________ network application category.

A) Collaboration
B) Communication
C) Discovery
D) Education

Question 27

_______ is installing and operating ultrafast fiber-optic cable service in US cities.

A) Comcast
B) Google
C) Time Warner
D) Verizon

Question 28

The Chinese equivalent of Google is _________.

A) Ask
B) Baidu
C) Bing
D) KartOO

Question 29

Portals are part of the __________ network application category.

A) Collaboration
B) Communication
C) Discovery
D) Education

Question 30

_____________ portals offer a single point of entry to political parties.

A) Affinity
B) Commercial
C) Corporate
D) Industrywide

Question 31

Internet telephony uses _______ signals.

A) Analog
B) Digital
C) Fiber
D) Satellite

Question 32

Your college or university maintains a network for student and professor use where you can store files and share documents with other individuals on the network. This is an _________.

A) Extranet
B) Externet
C) Internet
D) Intranet

Question 33

Search engines are part of the __________ network application category.

A) Collaboration
B) Communication
C) Discovery
D) Education

Question 34

_________ is a disadvantage of telecommuting.

A) Family life
B) Productivity
C) Stress
D) Visibility

Question 35

__________ is the largest-volume application running over the internet.

A) FTP
B) E-mail
C) portals
D) WWW

Question 36

_________ portals are useful for B2E e-commerce (e.g. employees managing their benefits).

A) Affinity
B) Commercial
C) Corporate
D) Industry

Question 37

______ provide computing services for user PCs, called _______.

A) Clients; servers
B) Clients; peers
C) Servers; clients
D) Servers; peers

Question 38

For the internet, the backbone is a ________ network.

A) Coaxial
B) Fiber-optic
C) Satellite
D) Twisted-pair

Question 39

___________ is a system of universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information via a client/server architecture.

A) HTTP
B) TCP/IP
C) The internet
D) The world wide web

Question 40

_________ clients have no local storage and only limited processing power.

A) Fat
B) Heavy
C) Thin
D) Tiny

Question 41

Which of the following is a drawback of e-learning?

A) Consistency
B) Flexibility
C) Quality
D) Socialization

Question 42

______________ refers to the use of digital technologies that enable organizations or individuals who are geographically dispersed to collaboratively plan, design, develop, manage, and research products, services, and innovative applications.

A) Collaboration
B) Virtual collaboration
C) Workflow
D) Workgroup collaboration

Question 43

Crowdsourcing is part of the __________ network application category.

A) Collaboration
B) Communication
C) Discovery
D) Education

Question 44

Shellcatch is NOT being used or planning to be used by __________.

A) Chile
B) Mexico
C) Peru
D) Vietnam

Question 45

Which of the following is NOT a limitation of MOOCs as noted by Indian professors?

A) Having time to build them
B) Gaining in-depth knowledge of a field
C) Making the technology work
D) Testing the students' understanding of the material

Question 46

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of crowdsourcing?

A) Accuracy
B) Cost
C) Speed
D) Talent

Question 47

The Raytheon Company uses its CAVE technology to sell additional products to customers through _________.

A) Bundling
B) Crowdsourcing
C) Cross-selling
D) Up-selling

Question 48

The Raytheon Company had a ________ problem.

A) Collaboration
B) Communication
C) Discovery
D) Education

Question 49

It is illegal to use the Internet in Eritrea.

Question 50

Less than _____ percent of all web content is composed in Hindi, the first language of approximately 260 million people.

A) 0.1
B) 1
C) 10
D) 25

Question 51

_________ has taken the lead to expand in India and manage the language problem.

A) Amazon
B) Facebook
C) Google
D) Microsoft

Question 52

__________ is the worst offender in regard to illegally caught or mislabeled fish shipped to the US.

A) Asia
B) Africa
C) Australia
D) Europe

Question 53

MOOCs are part of the __________ network application category.

A) Collaboration
B) Communication
C) Discovery
D) Education

Question 54

__________ learning refers to learning supported by the Web.

A) Distance
B) E-
C) Internet
D) Web

Question 55

Shellcatch currently meets the need for _________.

A) Catching illegal fishermen
B) Ensuring correct fish labeling
C) Finding more fish
D) Verifying the location of the catch

Question 56

After the US, __________ enrolls the most in MOOCs.

A) China
B) India
C) Russia
D) UK

Question 57

Telepresence is the latest version of __________.

A) Crowdsourcing
B) Emailing
C) Teleconferencing
D) Videoconferencing

Question 58

The US government mandates telecommunications service availability to every US resident.

Question 59

Which technology did the Raytheon Company use to improve its design and development process as well as its collaboration?

A) CAVE
B) Crowdsourcing
C) RFID
D) Telepresence

Question 60

__________ is second only to China in total number of Internet users.

A) Great Britain
B) India
C) Russia
D) US

Question 61

The TCP/IP reference model has three layers.

Question 62

E-learning and distance learning are synonyms.

Question 63

The transmission technology that breaks up blocks of text into packets is called ________.

Question 64

Fat clients depend on the network to run applications.

Question 65

Telecommuting is popular, but some large companies have banned it.

Question 66

Supersearch engines are useful for more thorough searches of the internet.

Question 67

MOOCs are less revolutionary in the US and Europe than first predicted.

Question 68

India's government is working quickly to getting its citizens on the Internet and promoting websites written in Hindi.

Question 69

The definition of broadband is fluid and will undoubtedly continue to change to reflect increasing transmission capacities.

Question 70

An intranet connects parts of the internet of different organizations.

Question 71

The leftmost part of an internet name is its top-level domain.

Question 72

Cloud computing makes virtual collaboration easier.

Question 73

The Raytheon Company was low-tech in regard to design and development but high-tech when it came to collaboration.

Question 74

ISPs, software companies, and large organizations need to migrate to IPv6 as an IP addressing scheme.

Question 75

Bandwidth refers to the transmissions capacity of a network; it is stated in ________ per second.

Question 76

Google Drive offers version control.

Question 77

______________ convert analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog signals.

Question 78

MOOCs are a type of virtual university.

Question 79

Grouperchek is a portable technology that can check the DNA sequencing of grouper in 45 minutes.

Question 80

The Internet and the World Wide Web are synonyms.