CIW Practice 5

Xues company has provided her with a desktop computer to use at work. She has configured her e­mail client on this work computer to include her personal e­mail account so that she can conveniently download messages and check her personal e­mail. Xue should be aware that:

• The company will block personal e­mail accounts.

• The company must permit her to receive personal e­mail messages.

• The company will ignore the e­mail messages to respect her privacy.

• The company will have access to her personal e­mail messages.

You have volunteered to give a presentation to the parents at your child's school about the dangers of the Internet. Which of the following would you include in your recommendations to parents?

• Warn children to never provide personal information over the Internet.

• Direct parents to ask other users in the children’s chat rooms to provide identification.

• Remind the parents that the anonymity of chat rooms provides security.

• To reduce fear, claim that the threat of predators has been reduced in recent times.

Which of the following is used to help non­technical users collectively classify and find information on a site?

• Tagging

• A Wiki

• Web feed

• Ajax

You use a proprietary Windows­-based program to generate architectural drawings and plans for your freelance drafting business. You have a personal Web site and would like to share samples of your work for potential new customers to review. To which file format should you convert your drawings so that they are viewable regardless of the local operating system used by the individual viewing your site?

• PDF

• MP3

• DOC

• XML

Evonka is listening to music from an online music provider (such as Pandora or Jango). She builds a list of music preferences, including favorite songs. The music service then suggests additional songs she might enjoy. The music provider is an example of a cloud­ computing application that uses a technology for collaborative filtering, which helps define the list of songs available to listeners. Which term describes this technology?

• Bit­torrent

• Crowdsourcing

• Grid computing

• Software as a Service

Aisha is preparing to give a presentation to management about the development of cloud-computing services that her company is planning to implement. Which of the following might her managers mention as a possible objection or drawback to using cloud services for the company?

• Speed

• Cost

• Flexibility

• Scalability

Emelia and Lola have created a new software application that allows messaging site subscribers to analyze the message statistics in order to more easily assess and interact with followers. They have decided to license this software according to the GNU GPL Version 3. What does this license allow them to do with their software?

• They can only sell this software through a not-­for-­profit company.

• They can sell this software, but only if they make the software code available on a public server.

• The software enters the public domain for free use and can be altered by other programmers, who must then make their changes freely available as well.

• The software enters the public domain for free use, but any changes made in the future can be kept secret, allowing them to profitably sell the modified software.

A paradigm shift has occurred in the way that small businesses use software applications. Companies increasingly choose hosted solutions with a monthly subscription fee and outsourced system maintenance, instead of purchasing software and hardware that must be maintained by internal resources. This business model is commonly referred to as:

• scalability

• grid computing

• crowdsourcing

• Software as a Service

Consider the following address: http://www.CIWcertified.com/certifications/web_foundations/iba.php

Which part of the URL represents the server name on which this page resides?

• WWW

• .CIWcertified

• .CIWcertifed.com

• /certifications/

You received an e­mail message on which several other individuals were copied. You want to respond to this message in a way that will include everyone who was copied on the original message. You can accomplish this by using which action?

• Reply

• Reply All

• Forward

• Send