The primary motivation for developing what became the Internet grew out of a concern for national security by this government agency
What is the Defense Department?
100
A connection of computers.
What is a network?
100
A ____ is a collection of rules for formatting, ordering and error checking data sent across a network. All computers on a network must communicate using it.
What is a Protocol?
100
______ is the linking of multiple Web pages together that enables the creation of a website
(i.e., a collection of multiple Web pages).
What is Hypertext?
100
A _____ connection provides different bandwidths for each direction.
What is an Asymmetric Connection?
200
sells Internet access rights directly to larger customers and
indirectly to smaller firms and individuals
What is a Network Access Provider?
200
A network over a greater distance is called this.
What is a Wide Area Networks (WAN)?
200
The _____ is a standard protocol that can be used by computers manufactured by different companies. A
network architecture evolved out of this philosophy of using “open” (i.e., open to everyone) standards known as an open architecture
What is the Network Control Protocol (NCP)?
200
_______ is a language used for the creation of Web pages, which are stored on web servers.
What is Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)?
200
In the early years of the Internet, _____ used standard voice telephone lines and analog modems to connect to the Internet.
What is Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)?
300
Companies that provide Internet access to individuals,
businesses, and other organizations.
What are Internet access providers (IAP's)?
300
In a _____, messages are broken down into small pieces called packets that are labeled electronically with the
origins, sequences and destination addresses.
What is a Packet-Switching network?
300
A _____ is a 32-bit number that uniquely identifies computers connected to the Internet.
What is an IP Address?
300
A _______ is a set of words that are assigned to specific IP addresses.
What is a Domain Name?
300
One major advantage of _____
technology is that it consumes very little power, which is an important consideration for mobile devices.
What is Bluetooth Technology?
400
A forum that allows people to read and post
articles.
What is a newsgroup?
400
The computer that decides how best to forward each packet is called a ______
What is a Router?
400
The use of reserved private IP addresses within LANs and WANs to provide additional address space is called ______
What is Subnetting?
400
Since 1998, this organization has had the responsibility of managing domain names and coordinating them with the IP address registrars.
What is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)?
400
______ cost less than telephone lines designed to carry data and are made of
lower-grade copper
What are Voice-grade lines?
500
Originally located in San Francisco, New York,
Chicago, and Washington, D.C., each operated by a separate telecommunications company.
What are Network access points (NAPs)?
500
A ______ is an interconnection of networks that does not extend beyond the boundaries of a
particular organization
What is an Intranet?
500
The combination of the protocol name and the
domain name is a _______
What is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)?
500
The ability to dynamically create Web pages from data stored in a database such as Oracle or MySQL in response to a specific page request is what some call the _______.
What is the Deep Web?
500
A connection method that does not use a modem. It uses a piece of networking equipment that is similar to a network switch.