WorksheetsInternet Basics Midterm Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Who invented the World Wide Web back in 1989?
Bill Gates
Tim Berners-Lee
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
The Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork is also known as which of these?
SKYNET
INTRANET
ARPANET
YOUTUBE
Which of these connections uses a coaxial cable that runs from the wall jack to the modem?
Dial-up connection
Cable connection
Cellular connection
Which of these connections usually has the SLOWEST download speeds?
Dial-up connection
Cable connection
Cellular connection
What is "snail mail"?
Letters and packages sent and delivered through traditional mail
Unread email messages
Text messages from a zoo
A group of computers that is connected together is called a... what?
Flock
Node
Network
Fleet
Fill in the blank: The internet is known as a ___________ network.
distributed
centralized
defense
robotics
What is considered to be the lifeblood of the internet, constantly flowing through it?
Information
Lots of cables and wires
People
Cats
What is a collection of web pages that is organized and grouped together called?
An encyclopedia
A web browser
A website
An application
As of May 2020, which of these websites was considered to be the most popular?
CNN
eBay
YouTube
Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge are all examples of what computer programs that allow users to access, view, and interact with web pages and websites?
Web browsers
Websites
Search engines
Web documents
Many web pages and websites are built with hypertext markup language, which is better known as which acronym?
COBOL
BASIC
HTML
UNIX
In a web browser, where do users usually type in URLs, such as google.com or wsps.org?
The Address bar
The Favorites folder
The Options menu
Nowhere; you can't type in a website.
Xfinity, Charter, and Cox are all ISPs. What does ISP stand for?
Inexpensive Service Plan
Ideally Strong Power
Internet Service Provider
I'll Stop Posting
Compared to cable and cellular download speeds, dial-up speeds are typically...
faster
slower
about the same
Which of these cellular signals usually provides the fastest download speeds?
1x
3G
4G/LTE
5G
Which one of these statements about cellular internet connections is true?
As long as you have a cellular signal, you can access the internet from virtually anywhere.
Cellular internet connections are slower than dial-up and cable and really shouldn't be used.
Cellular internet connections require an external modem.
The amount of downloaded data that an internet service provider customer is entitled to download in a given period is called a what?
Frequent Download Plan
Data cap
Web browser
Streaming service
Which of these devices has both a cable modem and a router inside?
Gateway
Server
Hub
Laptop
Which of these is a password that a router or gateway may require from an internet-enabled device before allowing access to its wireless network?
Passcode
Network Key
Keycard
Username
Which US state did the ALOHAnet wireless packet network serve?
California
Utah
Hawaii
Alaska
Which "E" cable is used to connect a cable modem to another device, like a computer or a router?
ERAM cable
Ethernet cable
Electric cable
Engineering cable
Google, Yahoo!, and Bing are all examples of what type of program that allows users to find specific websites and web pages based on certain words they type in?
Web browser
Subroutine
Search engine
Visual library
Fill in the Blank: In 2020, people use dial-up connections ____ _____ ____ cable connections when accessing the internet.
less often than
more often than
the same as
as well as
Which of these components is NOT part of a wireless network?
Cable modem
Router
Wireless internet device
Telephone line/cable
Which of these devices does not have an Ethernet port?
iPhone
Router
Hub
Desktop computer
Which of these statements about cable internet connections is true?
Cable connections require users to disconnect when they're not online.
Cable connections can only be wired connections, and not wireless.
Cable connections have slower download speeds than dial-up connections.
Cable connections require a coaxial cable to connect the cable modem to the wall jack.
Fill in the Blanks: As a user device gets closer to a router or gateway on a wireless network, the potential speed of the the connection ____ ______.
gets slower
gets faster
doesn't change
goes away
Which of these things came first in internet history?
ALOHAnet
America Online
ARPANET
The creation of the World Wide Web
Which of these connections is considered to be a narrowband (slow) connection?
Cable
Cellular
Dial-up
