#131_Cengage Test (1st Block)

One of the major reasons business, home, and other users purchase computers and mobile devices is for ______ access.

• Internet

• network

The Internet has its roots in a networking project started by the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of _______.

• Defense

• Offense

Who can connect their computers and mobile devices to the Internet through wired or wireless technology and then access its services free or for a fee?

• Users

• Abusers

• Sewers

An Internet service provider (ISP), sometimes called an ______ access provider, is a business that provides individuals and organizations access to the Internet free or for a fee.

• Internet

• network

• Hashtag

Computers and devices connected to the Internet work together to _____ data around the world using servers and clients and various wired and wireless transmission media.

• transfer

• collect

An IP address, short for Internet Protocol address, is a sequence of ______ that uniquely identifies the location of each computer or device connected to the Internet or any other network.

• numbers

• letters

• symbols

While the Internet was developed in the late 1960s, the World Wide Web emerged in the early 1990s as an ______ way to access online information using a browser.

• easier

• more difficult

• slicker

Internet-capable mobile devices such as smartphones use a special type of browser, called a _______ browser.

• mobile

• desktop

• stationary

Favorites, also called ________.

• bookmarks

• landmarks

• skid marks

A website is also called?

• URL

• ESPN

• R2D2

• CP3O