WorksheetsIBA Chapter 3B
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
When Web users enter the URL www.CIWcertified.com in their browser address bar, they can access the official CIW Web site at the IP address 72.44.192.233. Which technology enables users to do this, instead of having to remember and enter the IP address?
DNS
TCP/IP
HTTP
HTML
Which protocol is used to host newsgroups and distribute mailing lists by providing text output that users can access at their convenience and by allowing multi-person input like a conferencecall?
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
Post Office Protocol (POP)
Your company offers software applications for various topics. When a customer purchases a desired app from your online store, she is directed to a page where she can download the application directly. When the customer begins downloading the app, the standard protocol that is most likely transferring the application is:
HTTPS.
HTTP.
FTP.
SMTP.
Which protocol allows you to browse and manage e-mail messages while they reside on the mail server?
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
Post Office Protocol (POP)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Instead of purchasing software and hardware that must be maintained by internal resources, more and more small businesses today are choosing hosted solutions with a monthly subscription fee and outsourced system maintenance. Which term is commonly used for this business model?
Software as a Service
Scalability
Grid computing
Crowdsourcing
A domain name server performs which function?
It resolves domain names to IP addresses.
It resolves machine addresses to domain names.
It resolves domain names to machine names.
It resolves IP addresses to Web URLs.
A domain name consists of letters (and sometimes numbers) separated by periods. Which of the following is the host name component of a domain name?
The right-side component of a domain name, which categorizes domains into groups by server name
The right-side component of a domain name, which categorizes domains into groups by common type or geography
The left-side component of the domain name, which categorizes domains into groups by server name
The left-side component of a domain name, which categorizes domains into groups by common type or geography
Which protocol is required for computers to communicate with each other over the Internet?
POP
HTTP
FTP
TCP/IP
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project collected vast amounts of data that needed processing. SETI was one of the early adopters of a technology in which volunteers installed a small application on personal computers to receive, process and return information to SETI. Using multiple systems to process large amounts of data was considered to be less expensive than using a single supercomputer to conduct the same task. This technology is typically known as:
Software as a Service.
crowdsourcing.
grid computing.
collective intelligence.
Which protocol allows a computer using an analog modem to make an initial connection to the Internet?
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
Of the six elements required to connect to the Internet, which can be supplied in the form of a Web browser, e-mail program or mobile app?
Operating system
Internet connection
Internet address
Client software
Approximately how many numeric IP addresses are possible with IPv4?
100 million
400 million
1 billion
4 billion
Tim is listening to music from an online music provider (such as Pandora). He creates a list of his music preferences, and the music service uses his list to suggest additional songs that Tim might like. This music service is an example of a cloud-computing application that uses collaborative filtering technology. What is the name of this type of technology?
Software as a Service
Crowdsourcing
Grid computing
Bit-torrent
