University of Massachusetts Boston College of Management MSIS 110: Introduction to Computers

Chapter 7 Q & A

____ 1. Companies are using the Internet to speed communications and share information. ____ 2. E-mail is limited to text-based messages. ____ 3. It is safe to give out your name, address, and phone number in chat rooms and on Usenet since it is used by registered people. ____ 4. It is possible to listen to radio broadcasts over the Internet and to download radio programs. ____ 5. A cover page for a Web site is called a main page. ____ 6. All of the information placed on the WWW is verified for accuracy and can be trusted.

____ 7. ____ is a collection of independently owned computers that work together in a single Internet service and provide data files accessible to browsers. a. Usenet b. FTP c. The World Wide Web d. Newsgroups

____ 8. Web pages use ____ as a standard to ensure file contents can be properly display or used by browsers. a. SLIP/PPP b. HTML c. HTTP d. URL

____ 9. Juanita Jones needs an inexpensive yet powerful alternative to other forms of internal communications and document management in her organization. She might need to consider a(n): a. LAN. b. Internet. c. intranet. d. extranet.

____ 10. If a medical center and its regional affiliate wish to establish a secure connection across the Internet, they might use a: a. firewall. b. FTP site. c. virtual private network. d. tunnel.

____ 11. When Pet Inc. decided to link its intranet to three of its favored vendors, it created a(n): a. Internet. b. intranet-extension network. c. extranet. d. WAN. ____ 12. The primary cause of ____ on the Internet is simply the phenomenal growth in traffic.

1 a. failed searches b. service bottlenecks c. denial of service d. guaranteed connection agreements

13. The communication standard used to pass messages from one network to another is known as ______. 14. A URL that ends in '.au' has a(n) ______attached to the domain name. 15. ______is an object-oriented programming language from Sun Microsystems that allows small programs to be embedded within an HTML document.

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