IT 4238 Internet Essentials

Mid-Term Exam

October 28, 2003

 

The exam is one hour. Read all questions before starting.

Multiple choice questions are indicated by a list of possible answers following the question. Each possible answer is preceded by a check box.

Some questions will require a word, descriptive phrase, or text answer. You are limited in the amount of space you have for your answer. If you run out of space, write something shorter.

Remember that Shakespeare said, "brevity is the soul of wit". Except for the take-home section at the end, all answers are to be made on this exam. Please keep written answers short. There are no essay questions.

Each question or part is worth about 3 points. Note that several questions have multiple parts. Good luck.

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Question 1

To access the Internet, you need a computer, a browser program, and an ISP. What is an ISP and what does it do?

An ISP is an Internet Service Provider. It allows you access to the Internet for a fee.

 

Question 2

Give definitions for the following terms and acronyms:

HTML HyperText Markup Language

URL Universal Resource Locator

JPEG Joint Photgraphic Experts Group. A way to compress images.

WWW World Wide Web

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol

Emoticon A series of text characters used to convey emotion or feelings, such as :^) or <g>

 

Question 3

The Internet was first developed as a project of ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency). The purpose was to (check one):

[X] Pass data files between academic researchers working for the government

 [  ] Maintain military communications in the event of a nuclear attack

[  ] Experimentally support video data streams under a contract with Time-Warner Cable Systems

 

Question 4

When the Internet was first implemented, 4 of the sites were UC Santa Barbara, Stamford, U of Utah, and UCLA The 5th site was (check one):

[  ] Bolt Beranek & Newman

[  ] Harvard

[  ] MIT

[X] The was no 5th site

 

Question 5

The Internet began in (check one):

[X] 1969

 [  ] 1979

[  ] 1989

 

Question 6

A Trojan Horse…

[X] is a program installed on your computer along with another program

 [  ] infects existing programs

[  ] spreads from computer to computer by itself using a network

 

Question 7

Below are three different types of addresses. Check the box that tells what type of address each is.

  IP Mailto  
  Address Address URL
elipchus@trilsys.com [  ] [X] [  ]
www.trilsys.com [  ] [  ] [X]
204.71.200.74 [X] [  ] [  ]

Question 8

The Domain Name Service was established in 1984. What did it do?

Translate URLs to IP addresses

 

Question 9

Is the Internet a direct connection system or a packet-switching system?

packet switching

 

 

Question 10

Would you use the telephone system or the postal system as a metaphor for the Internet? Why?

postal system - it uses packets (envelopes)

 

Question 11

"Fair use", as it applies to copyrighted material, means that you can:

[  ] Print or use all or almost all of a work as long as it is for educational purposes.

[X] reproduce a small portion of a work for personal or educational purposes.

[X] make a complete copy of the work for backup purposes.

 

Question 12

What will the following line of HTML code do when displayed as part of a web page?

<P><B><U>cogito eggo sum – I think, therefore I am a waffle</U></B><BR>

print the text as bold and underlined after skipping a line

 

Question 13

Bob sends an email to Ted, Carol, and Alice. You are Alice. You click "Reply". Who gets the reply?

Bob

 

You click "Reply All". Who gets the reply?

Bob, Ted, Carol, Alice

 

 

Question 14

You send an email addressed as follows:

To: Bob

Cc: Ted

Bcc: Alice

Since each person gets an email with identical contents, what is the reason for using "cc:" instead of adding another name to "To:"?

cc means that the email is for information and the recipient does not need to take any action on it.

 

Assuming the text doesn't mention it, who does Bob think received the email? Ted? Alice?

Bob:  Bob, Ted

Ted:  Bob, Ted

Alice:  Bob, Ted, Alice

 

Question 15

You want to send the same email to every member of your Rebec & Tabor music group. There are 3 ways you can do this. The first is to send the same email, once to each member of the group. The second is to type the email address of each member in the group into the TO: line of the email. What is the third way?

Use a mail group or a mail list

 

Question 16

You send an email to your friend Charlie. Charlie receives the email onto his computer, reads it, and deletes it. Assuming Charlie doesn’t use the same ISP you do, list 4 places where the email message could still reside after Charlie has deleted it from his machine.

 

 

Question 17

What is your favorite web site and why?

www.cnam.fr because it has great historical photos of science

 

Question 18

To access the Internet you need an ISP. To let people see your web page, you need a…

web hosting service

 

 

Question 19

Write a search phrase that will find Honda or Suzuki motorcycles..

(Honda or Suzuki) and motorcycles

 

 

Here is a partial screen shot of a web site in a browser.

 

Question 20

Circle & label as "A" the button that will take you to the previous page.

Circle & label as "B" the button that will take you to the next page.

Circle & label as "C" the button that will stop downloading a page.

Circle & label as "D" the button that will restore a page that you had interrupted the download of.

 

 

Question 21

What happens if you click View>Source on the menu bar?

You see the HTML code for the page

 

Question 22

As you move the cursor around the displayed page, sometimes the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand. What does this mean?

The hand indicates you are over a link to another page

 

Question 23 (extra credit)

What is the name of the central character in Franz Kafka’s The Trial?

Joseph K

 

TAKE-HOME SECTION

The take-home section must be completed by 8p.m., Thursday, October 30. In other words, your emails must be timestamped on or before that date/time.

Question 24

Tomorrow you will receive an email from me titled "please forward". Please forward the email to trilsys@yahoo.com

Question 25

Tomorrow you will receive an email from me titled "please reply". Please reply to the email retaining the original message.

Question 26

Tomorrow you will receive an email from me with an attachment. What is in the attachment? Please email your answer. Do not "reply" to the message. Send a new email.

Question 27

Please email me a message. Attach a .htm file or a graphic as a separate attachment. You can get an image from a web page on the Internet by right-clicking the image and saving it to your hard drive.