Internet Quiz Questions

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• What is INTERNET?

Internet is the world's largest computer network, the "network of networks". Scattered all over the world

• When was the INTERNET Created?

It was created thirty six years ago as a project of U.S Department of Defense,

• What Internet service provider (ISP)?

It is the companies that provide INTERNET access.

• What is WWW?

It is the system based hypertext and HTTP for providing organizing and accessing wide verity of resources that are available by the INTERNET.

• What is web page?

It is a unit of information often called a document that is available over the WWW.

• Name the protocol that allows a computer to use the TCP/IP protocol and connected directly to the Net using a standard voice telephone line and high speed modem:

P P P (point-to-point protocol)]

• It is a software program that acts as an interface between the user and WWW what is it?

Web Browser

• Name two different type of Web Browser:

Text-based browser and Graphical Browser

• It collects and organizes resources that are available via the WWW, and designed to provide a starting point for locating information. Name it:

Web Index

• It is an interactive tool that enables to locate information available via Name it:

Search Engine

• It is unique, numeric identifier used to specify a particular host computer on a particular network, and is part of a global , standard’s scheme of identifying machines that are connected with INTERNET Name it:

IP Address (Internet Protocol)

• It is the way of identify and locate computers connected to the INTERNET Name it:

Domain Name

• It provides hierarchical way of identifying and locating INTERNET resources on the WWW Name It:

Uniform Resources Locater (URL)

• A binding document signed by all users that explains the rules of INTERNET use at an institution. Name it:

Acceptable user policy (AUP)

• What is gopher?

It is a protocol designed to search, retrieve and display documents from remote site on the Internet

• It is an Internet search tool that has the capability of searching many databases at one time. Name it:

Wide area information service (WAIS)

• What is FTP (file transfer protocol?)

The medium that allows transferring of files between computers on the net using an FTP program or via Netscape

• What is E-Journal?

It is an electronics publications, typically found in academic circles

• What is NNTP?

Network News Transport Protocol-This is used to distribute network news

• Name the security feature that allows access to information on an individual basis:

Authentication
 MIPS is an acronym for:
Millions of instructions per second
 The duplicate copy of data/program on a separate storage medium is called:
Back up
 A center processor placed on a semi-conductor chip is called as a:
Microprocessor
 Who invented the modem?
AT&T Information System, USA
 Which is standard internet protocol for distributing E-Mail?
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
 The computer generated environment is called:
Virtual
 Who coined the term hypertext in 1965?
Ted Nelson
 Which protocol provides basis for the net?
Internet Protocol –IP


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