Web Design- Unit #1 Test

The first connections were measured in baud rate. Today, baud rate is most often heard in this context:

• analog lines

• fax line data

• digital speed

• fax line speed

The most notable characteristic of bitmapping is that each pixel (basically one block of light or dark on a field of identical blocks) corresponds to a _____.

• numbered map on a grid

• numbered grid in the file

• numbered map in the file

• numbered grid on a map

Even though a bitmap graphical file is digital (inasmuch as it is stored on a computer in binary code), it is using a type of _____.

• graphical method of representation

• analog method of representation

• analog method of mapping data

• graphical method of mapping data

A lot of research and development has gone into the development of better compression algorithms. This type of compression has been applied to which types of files?

• mapping and video

• mapping and graphic

• sound and video

• mapping and sound

According to Moore's Law, by using mathematical calculations, one can predict that the number of transistors that can be integrated onto an integrated circuit will grow exponentially every _____.

• 24 months to 3 years

• 12 months to 2 years

• 18 months to 2 years

• 36 months to 4 years

One of the challenges for the future of the Internet is that we will have to develop technology to cope with what changes?

• the ways in which the Internet is used

• government intervention and rules

• global intervention and language change

• inconsistencies in weather

Hyperlink capabilities are being built into all sorts of software, such as _____.

• mechanical engineering

• manufacturing-plant controls

• computer-design controls

• car and plant designs

Fill in the blank with the correct response.Tremendous advances have been made in ______________ in the past twenty years to allow massive amounts of video and audio to be live-streamed on the Internet.

• compression methods

• FTP

• HTTP

Advances in the ability to live-stream audio and video on the Internet have changed things in the _____ industry.

• recording

• healthcare

• housing

• dot-com

As speeds continue to climb and storage continues to get cheaper, what will be decentralized?

• the delivery of information

• the creation of wide networks

• the creation of local networks

• the delivery of local networks