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WorksheetsLesson 2 Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 21mins
Ken needs a catchy name for his online business. He decides to launch a public contest through his social networking accounts to seek lots of creative ideas for his business name. Which term describes the use of the Internet in this manner?
Social engineering
Folksonomy
Crowdsourcing
Tagging
Mrs. Brown is a teacher at the elementary school. As the school year begins, she sends a couple of email messages to her students' parents to provide links to various resource sites. Many of the parents reply, thanking her for the resources and asking for more information on topics such as state testing, district requirements, and fun educational sites for the kids. Mrs. Brown realizes that email is an inefficient way to organize and share all her information. A more efficient way for her to provide resource links to her students' parents would be:
crowdsourcing
social tagging
collective intelligence
grid computing
You need to send a message to your manager providing all the details of a business proposal as quickly as possible. The idea you have discussed with her is critical to the business. The project is considered urgent and confidential. What would be the most appropriate way you could use an SMS (text) message in relation to this proposal?
To provide a detailed outline of the proposal so that your manager can refer to it as she travels.
To send a brief summary of the proposal to your manager so that she has it available during a presentation.
To send the proposal as an attachment to the text message.
To alert your manager that you have sent the proposal via email so your manager can view the proposal as soon as possible.
You periodically access a Website that encourages users to provide information in a collaborative effort to populate and grow the site. This site is an example of a:
folksonomy
Web feed
wiki
mashup
Which of the following Internet communication practices is unethical but not illegal?
Posting artwork you copied from the Internet on our Website and claiming it is your own
Asking another user in a chat room for personal information
Copying the code for a specialized application from another site and using it on your site without permission
Posting false and hurtful claims about another person on your Facebook page
Which of the following is used to help non-technical users collectively classify and find information on a site?
Semantic Web
Web feed
XML
Tagging
Which term is used to describe Web 2.0 applications that have the ability to contextualize data (or give the data meaning) as they process it, by supplementing the content designed for humans with machine-readable information that enables computers to find, share and combine information on the Web without human intervention?
Tagging
Web feed
Semantic Web
Crowdsourcing
The Short Message Service (SMS) communication protocol is required for:
Mobile computing
Instant messaging (IM)
Text messaging
Voice over IP (VoIP)
Johann uses instant messaging (IM) to frequently communicate with his team members, as well as with close friends. Recently, Johann was surprised that he started receiving spam during his IM sessions. Which statement would explain why Johann could receive spam during an IM session?
Instant messaging bypasses anti-virus software and firewalls.
Instant messaging runs on standard PCs, which are less secure than mobile devices.
Instant messaging runs on mobile devices, which are less secure than standard PCs.
Instant messaging bypasses users' presencing settings.
You have subscribed to the Web feeds from your favorite Websites. What kind of software do you need to receive these?
A browser plug in
A personal information manager
A podcast
An aggregator
You are hosting a lunch meeting at a local restaurant for 15 of your roving salespeople. An hour before meeting time, the restaurant calls to tell you that the party room will not be available in one hour for your lunch meeting. You make a reservation with the new restaurant for the same time and cancel the other. What is the best way to alert each salesperson about the new restaurant location?
Ask the manager of the first restaurant to tell the salespeople about the new restaurant location when they arrive at the first restaurant as scheduled.
Post an announcement to the company's Website with the location of the new restaurant.
Send a text message with the new restaurant location to the mobile phones of all the salespeople.
Call each salesperson and leave a voicemail message with the location of the new restaurant.
Which of the following is an example of ethical Internet behavior?
Citing information you find on the Internet that you use in your own work
Requesting personal information about others during an Internet chat session
Downloading and using shareware, which is free
Downloading any songs and movies from the Internet
Your company has created a wiki for its employees to support blogs and collaborative projects. Employees can also contribute photos of company events to the company's internal Facebook site. These types of Web usage can be collectively described as:
folksonomy
Web 1.0
mashups
Web 2.0
A Web page that integrates content and scripts from multiple Websites to create new applications is known as a:
folksonomy
mashup
wiki
podcast
Some Internet practices are illegal (they violate laws and are punishable), whereas other practices may by legal but are still unethical and should be avoided. Which of the following practices is both legal and ethical?
Downloading copyrighted artwork and using is a background on your Website.
Trying shareware for free and paying for it only after you decide to keep using it.
Copying someone else's written work from the Internet and presenting it as your own, as long as it is for schoolwork.
Downloading music and motion pictures, as long as they are from a peer-to-peer network.
Which service involves allowing a trusted person at a remote location to connect to your computer and view your screen.
Blogging
Instant Messaging (IM)
Windows Remote Assistance
Video Streaming
What distinguishes instant messaging from email?
Instant messaging can be used to talk to contacts if your computer has a microphone.
Instant messages can display responses only when you click the Send/Receive button.
You do not need access to a network in order to send and receive instant messages.
Instant messages can be sent only to contacts who are currently online.
Which term defines the practice of generating and improving content based on collective intelligence, and the use of software to gather and organize this intelligence?
Crowdsourcing
Social tagging
Open source
Wiki
You want to view your Web feeds in your email inbox rather than viewing them through an aggregator. What type of application will allow you to do this?
Web feed management providers
News readers
Feed readers
SMS gateways
You have an account on Flickr (www.flickr.com) and have categorized your photos by adding tags to them. Users can now browse Flickr and gain access to your photos as long as the TAGS for which search match the TAGS you have applied. What have you created?
An folksonomy
A wiki
A blog
A mashup
