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BTEC Unit 1 - The online world

Total questions: 63

Worksheet time: 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What can you do to protect your identity online?

a)

Always use the same password for every account

b)

Create a unique password with special characters

c)

Be cautious of personal information you are sharing online

d)

Shop only on a secure site

2.

Which of the following passwords is the most secure?

a)

03011999 - it's my birthday

b)

password - easy to remember

c)

Football2018 - a combination of letters & numbers

d)

#mhalll+1! - a combination of letters, numbers, & characters

3.
Which is an act of identity theft?
a)
Receiving permission to use a parents’ credit card for school clothes
b)
Wrongfully acquiring and using someone’s personal identification
c)
Taking the identity of another individual as inspiration for a costume
d)
Having the same name as another person
4.
When another’s personal information is used without their permission.
a)
Identity Theft
b)
Communication Fraud
c)
Credit Fraud
d)
Investment Fraud
5.
How does a computer virus infect a pc?
a)
Email attachments
b)
Attached to files on memory sticks
c)
Suspicious web links
d)
All of the above
6.
How can you protect your computer against viruses?
a)
Put a lock on it.
b)
Install an anti-virus package, scan and delete files and update it.
7.
What is spyware?
a)
Causes adverts to appear on screen.
b)
Software that deletes your files
c)
Slows your pc down.
d)
Collects information from you and transfers it across the internet.
8.
Database means
a)
 collection of logically related files
b)
 collection of logically related records
c)
 collection of logically related fields
d)
 collection of logically related tables
9.
Record means
a)
Is a collection of related files
b)
Is a collection of related data items
c)
numbers
d)
Is a collection of related tables
10.
Field
a)
 collection of related tables
b)
 collection of related records
c)
 collection of related file
d)
Is a single item of data
11.
Character
a)
Character can only be Alphabetic
b)
Character can be Alphabetic, numeric and/or special character.
c)
Character can only be Alphabetic and special character.
d)
all the above
12.
This is a data type that can only consists of two values like Yes/No, True/False, On/Off
a)
Date/time
b)
Boolean
c)
memo
d)
real
13.

A group of tables linked together by primary and foreign keys

a)

Primary key

b)

Relational database

c)

Flat file database

14.

This is unique and is used to identify a record in a table. Other fields in the table depend on it.

a)

Foreign key

b)

Primary key

c)

Attribute

d)

Relationship

15.

A field of one table which is also a primary key of another table. It is used to establish links between entities in the database.

a)

Primary key

b)

Foreign key

c)

Attribute

d)

Relationships

16.
What is phishing?
a)
scams through websites
b)
scams through emails
c)
scams through phone calls
d)
scams through text messages
17.

You should always change your password regularly.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

If you receive a message that your computer has a virus, you should . . .

a)

download the fix immediately!

b)

be suspicious because they can't tell if your computer has a virus.

c)

send them your credit card information right away to get help!

19.

What is one thing identity theft can lead to?

a)

Large amounts of money being stolen from you.

b)

Bad credit scores.

c)

Credit cards being taken out in your name.

d)

All of the above.

20.

Is this a phishing scam?

a)

Yes

b)

No

21.

Is this a phishing scam?

a)

Yes

b)

No

22.

Is this a phishing scam?

a)

Yes

b)

No

23.

Is this a phishing scam?

a)

Yes

b)

No

24.

Is this a phishing scam?

a)

Yes

b)

No

25.
Protect an internal network from external attacks
a)
Antivirus 
b)
VPN
c)
Firewall
d)
AVIRA
26.
What does Firewall Do?
a)
Prevents Hackers
b)
Install Viruses
c)
Give you SD cards
d)
Blocks all content
27.
Firewalls remove viruses
a)
False
b)
True
28.
Which of these is the most secure way of data transfer?
a)
HTTP
b)
HTTPS
29.
What does this padlock sign mean in the address bar of your browser?
a)
The site is secure and data is transmitted using SSL
b)
There is a padlock available for purchase
c)
The website does not include "safety locks"
d)
The page is locked down using PHP or ASP scripting
30.
Taking a secret message and reproducing the original plain text is known as?
a)
Vigenere Cipher
b)
Encryption
c)
Random Substitution cipher
d)
Decryption
31.
Viruses and Trojan Horses are often called
a)
software
b)
malware
32.
Trojan Horses appear to be ________ but actually are designed to _________ your computer
a)
Safe/ Help
b)
Safe/ Damage
c)
Harmful/ Help
d)
Harmful/ Damage
33.
Trojan Horses create backdoor access to your computer info for ________
a)
Anyone on the internet
b)
Only the malicious user who created the Trojan Horse
c)
Everyone in your email address book
d)
Anyone with your email address
34.
What is a search engine?
a)
a paid library website that gives reliable information
b)
a library online catalog
c)
searches the Internet and identifies items that match the characters and keywords entered by a user
d)
a collection of full text articles used for research projects
35.
What is an example of a search engine?
a)
Gale Student Resources in Context
b)
Google
c)
Gale Power Search
d)
Britannica
36.
This is an example of...
a)
a search engine
b)
a library database
37.
This is an example of...
a)
a search engine
b)
a library database
38.
Files sent with e-mails
a)
Attachments
b)
Letters
c)
Folders
d)
Paperclips
39.
What does the "E" stand for in E-mail
a)
Energetic
b)
Electrical
c)
Enormous
d)
Electronic
40.

What does this icon do?

a)

Holds your place

b)

Spell Check your e-mail

c)

Send a message

d)

Attach a file

41.

What is the subject line in an e-mail used for?

a)

Writing the e-mail message

b)

Adding emojis

c)

Writing a brief description of the e-mail message

d)

Leaving blank

42.

Your incoming e-mails are stored in your......

a)

Forward

b)

Outbox or sent items

c)

Reply

d)

Inbox

43.

Messages that you send are stored in your.....

a)

Forward

b)

Outbox or sent items

c)

Reply

d)

Inbox

44.

Two benefits of e-mail are:

a)

Can be accessed without an internet connection.

b)

Delivered instantly to anywhere in the world.

c)

Secure. No risk of hackers.

d)

Can send to multiple people in one go.

45.

Two drawbacks of e-mail are:

a)

Phishing scams.

b)

Spam

c)

Very slow.

d)

Expensive to send multiple emails.

46.

SMTP stands for ...

a)

Simple Mail Text Profile

b)

Singular Mail Transfer Profile

c)

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

d)

Single Mail Transport Protocol

47.

IMAP stands for ...

a)

Internet Message Attempt Profile

b)

Internet Means Accessing Phishing

c)

Internet Messages Accessing Profile

d)

Internet Message Access Protocol

48.

SMTP ...

a)

Sends the email to an email server.

b)

Sends the email back to your Inbox.

c)

Receives the email.

d)

Sends the email to all of your contacts.

49.

Sending an email to somebody with the intention of finding out personal details like a password is called ...

a)

Scamming

b)

Spamming

c)

Phishing

d)

Fishing

50.

What does HTML stand for?

a)

Hypertext Markup Language

b)

Hypertext ML

c)

Hyper Text Markup Language

d)

Hypertext markup Linguistic

51.

What is a tag?

a)

A text file

b)

Something that is used to write HTML codes in

c)

A selection of text

d)

A content of information

52.

What goes in the <head> section?

a)

A brain

b)

the title

c)

hair

d)

the body

53.
<h> is
a)
Header Tag
b)
Headline Tag
c)
Half of a tag
d)
Closing header tag
54.
<p> is
a)
punctuation tag
b)
closing paragraph tag
c)
closing punctuation tag
d)
paragraph tag
55.
In this particular media access method, collision detection is turned on. The device can send or receive in only one direction at a time
a)
Half-Duplex
b)
Full-Duplex
c)
One-plex
56.
What does NIC stand for?
a)
Network Internet Card
b)
New Internet Creator
c)
Network Interface Card
d)
Network Interceptor Card
57.
Architecture in which all of the computers on a network are equal with no computer designated as the server
a)
Client/Server Network
b)
Peer-to-Peer Network
c)
Metropolitan Network
58.
Architecture in which one or more computers on the network acts as a server
a)
Peer-to-Peer Network
b)
Client Server Network
c)
Wired Home Network
59.
Data is transmitted in both directions, but not at the same time.
a)
Full Duplex
b)
Simplex
c)
Half Duplex
d)
Half Synchronous
60.
What does .com  stand for?
a)
A commercial web site
b)
A comedy web site
c)
A site for kids
61.
What does www. stand for?
a)
wild, woolly, whales
b)
world wide web
c)
wise warning web
62.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/index.html
What part of the URL in red -
a)
The protocol prefix
b)
The domain name
c)
The file path
d)
The file name
63.
https://mail.google.com/mail/index.html
What part of the URL in red -
a)
The domain suffix
b)
The protocol prefix
c)
The domain name
d)
The path