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Year 7 - The Internet

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the first network project called?

a)

Internet

b)

World Wide Web

c)

ARPANET

d)

UNIVAC

2.

Who convinced ARPA to start this network project?

a)

Jack Dorsey

b)

Mark Zuckerberg

c)

Tim Berners Lee

d)

Joseph Licklider

3.

With Circuit Switching (the first communication method used) a computer could only communicate with one other computer at one given time.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

4.

ARPANET invented ________________ ________________ for long distance communication.

(a)  

5.

What was the list of computer addresses called?

a)

STANFORD List

b)

UCLA List

c)

UTAH List

d)

GUNTER List

6.

Which standard way of formatting packets was used when other networks started popping up everywhere?

a)

HTTP

b)

WWW

c)

WIFI

d)

TCP/IP

7.

Which of the following statements are correct about DNS?

a)

DNS stands for Domain Name System.

b)

DNS is still in use today.

c)

The 'Stanford List' was a better solution than DNS.

d)

DNS replaced the 'Stanford List'.

e)

Hosts (computers on network) started being arranged by domain names instead of addresses.

8.

From the website address: http://www.google.com, which is the top level domain?

a)

www

b)

google

c)

.com

d)

http

9.

Who took over the network project after ARPANET?

a)

DARPA

b)

NSFNET

c)

NASA

d)

EPIC

10.

ISP stands for ____ ____ ____

(a)  

11.

The company logos in the picture provided are all examples of local:

a)

E-mail Clients

b)

Search Engines

c)

Browsers

d)

Internet Service Providers

12.

Which statements are NOT true about Dial Up Connections

a)

Dial up connections used modems.

b)

Dial up connections were very fast.

c)

Dial up connections used telephone lines.

d)

Dial up connection was a broadband type of connection.

13.

Tim Berners Lee and Robert Cailliau invented the _____________ ________ _______.

(a)  

14.

WIth what did Tim Berners Lee and Robert Cailliau came up to better organize the Internet. (today known as the language of websites)

a)

DSL/ADSL

b)

Fiber Optic

c)

Python Code

d)

Hypertext (HTML)

15.

What does the (s) in https stand for?

a)

standard

b)

secure

c)

system

d)

simple

16.

What is a program that allows you to view web pages (websites) called?

a)

Search Engine

b)

Homepage

c)

Modem

d)

Browser

17.

Napster got bankrupt when the .com bubble burst. Why?

a)

It broke copyright laws and had to pay back musicians.

b)

People lost interest in music.

c)

The internet was not fast enough.

d)

They were not capable of updating their website.

18.

Which of the following statements are true about Geocities?

a)

It mixed users and creators of websites.

b)

Users could not put photos on their geocity website.

c)

It was the first social networking site.

d)

It allowed anyone to open an account and create a website.

19.

ADSL/DSL and Cable Internet are both examples of a (a)   connection.

20.

Which of the below uses digital signals?

a)

Telephone Lines

b)

Computers