1. What is the purpose of a top-level domain name?
2. The Internet is the offspring of the _______________ project.
3. What is the role of an Internet Service Provider (ISP)?
4. Which client software runs on a user's local computer and is used to request and display Web pages?
5. Which portion of the following URL is the directory or folder of the desired resource? http://www.somestore.com/firstfloor/shoes.htm
6. Which of the following top-level domain names would be used by the FBI?
7. Which of the following types of Internet access does NOT require a phone connection?
8. Which search condition would produce the most similar results to the search phrase below? circus +tiger
9. AND, OR, and NOT are examples of ___________ operators.
10. Which of the following best describes the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?
- (1) It denotes whether the server is a Web server, FTP server, or mail server.
- (2) It describes a type of organization or geographical location.
- (3) It describes the protocol used to transmit pages from the Web site.
- (4) It is an English name associated with the numeric IP address.
- (5) None of these
2. The Internet is the offspring of the _______________ project.
- (1) CERN
- (2) Internet Systems Consortium
- (3) Department of Defense
- (4) ARPANET
- (5) AIEEE
3. What is the role of an Internet Service Provider (ISP)?
- (1) It is software that allows your home computer to connect to the Internet.
- (2) It is an organization that registers domain names.
- (3) It is a company that sells Internet connection time.
- (4) It is the standard protocol used on the Internet for the transmission of packets.
- (5) None of these
4. Which client software runs on a user's local computer and is used to request and display Web pages?
- (1) FTP
- (2) Web server
- (3) Web browser
- (4) HTML
- (5) Web client
5. Which portion of the following URL is the directory or folder of the desired resource? http://www.somestore.com/firstfloor/shoes.htm
- (1) shoes.htm
- (2) firstfloor
- (3) www.somestore.com
- (4) http
- (5) Both 2 and 4
6. Which of the following top-level domain names would be used by the FBI?
- (1) .net
- (2) .edu
- (3) .gov
- (4) .com
- (5) .sub
7. Which of the following types of Internet access does NOT require a phone connection?
- (1) DSL
- (2) Dial-up
- (3) Cable
- (4) Satellite
- (5) All
8. Which search condition would produce the most similar results to the search phrase below? circus +tiger
- (1) circus OR tiger
- (2) circus AND tiger
- (3) "circus tiger"
- (4) circus NOT tiger
- (5) circus NOR tiger
9. AND, OR, and NOT are examples of ___________ operators.
- (1) Connector
- (2) Normative
- (3) Linking
- (4) Boolean
- (5) Binary
10. Which of the following best describes the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?
- (1) The Internet carries traffic for schools, government offices, and other public organizations, while the World Wide Web carries commercial traffic.
- (2) The Internet consists of software programs such as e-mail and IRC, while the World Wide Web is a collection of Web pages.
- (3) The Internet is the physical network of global computers, while the World Wide Web is many hypertext documents distributed globally over many computers.
- (4) The Internet is the collection of computers, while the World Wide Web is the wiring and transmission protocols that connect them.
- (5) None of these