NS2 Test Bank: NS2-M3C22 - Computers and the Internet

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What does HTTP stand for?

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Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

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When were the first U.K. and U.S. digital computers developed?

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1940's

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Which of the following would be an example of cyber terrorism? A hacker starts a virus that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents damaging computers hardware. A computer hacker associated with the White Supremacist movement temporarily disables an ISP and damages part of the record keeping system. A computer programmer finds his way into a college university's database, retrieving personal information. A hacker scans computer addresses of financial companies until he finds vulnerabilities and proceeds to compromise financial information.

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A computer hacker associated with the White Supremacist movement temporarily disables an ISP and damages part of the record keeping system.

Front

What number system is the basis for all operations performed within a computer?

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Binary Number System

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The use of computers and other devices to attack an enemy's information systems as opposed to an enemy's armies or factories.

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Cyber warfare

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Original Computers were made of vacuum tubes.

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True

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A computer that represents data by measurable quantities in order to solve a problem, rather than by expressing the data as numbers.

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Analog computer

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A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data

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Hacker

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The politically motivated use of computers and information technology to cause severe disruption or widespread fear in society

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Cyberterrorism

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A program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web.

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Search engine