Basics of Internet
1. ARPANET stands for:
- (a) Advanced Real Projects Air Network
- (b) Advanced Research Preparation Agency Network
- (c) Advanced Recruitment Process Agency Network
- (d) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
2. In the 1990s, the internetworking of which three networks resulted in the Internet?
- (a) WWW, GPS and other private networks
- (b) ARPANET, NSFnet and other private networks
- (c) ARPANET, NSFnet and other public networks
- (d) ARPANET, GPS and NSFnet
3. Web search engines work with the help of two programs. Which are they?
- (a) Web crawler and Cascading Style Sheet
- (b) Spider and Indexer
- (c) Web server and web crawler
- (d) None of the above
4. A Web Site is a collection of:
- (a) Audio and video files
- (b) Pictures
- (c) Web pages
- (d) All of the above
5. AOL, iGoogle, and Yahoo are examples of:
- (a) Web Site
- (b) Web Page
- (c) Web Portal
- (d) None of the above
6. __________ is distributed computing over a network, involving a large number of computers connected via a real-time communication network such as the Internet.
- (a) Cloud Computing
- (b) Thin Client Computing
- (c) Fat Client Computing
- (d) Dumb terminal Computing
7. A __________ is a website like any other, but it is intended to offer personal opinions of people on their hobbies, interests, commentaries, photos, etc.
- (a) Protocol
- (b) Blog
- (c) Webpage
- (d) Journal
8. __________ protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands.
- (a) FTP
- (b) TCP/IP
- (c) HTTP
- (d) SMTP
9. URLs are of two types:
- (a) Absolute & Relative
- (b) Static & Dynamic
- (c) Absolute & Dynamic
- (d) None of the above
10. DNS is an acronym for __________:
- (a) Domain Name Security
- (b) Domain Number System
- (c) Document Name System
- (d) Domain Name System
Web Services
1. In web services, the communication takes place between:
- (a) Two electronic devices
- (b) Two human beings
- (c) Two spiders
- (d) None of the above
2. Nowadays, an email can be sent via:
- (a) PC
- (b) Tablet
- (c) Smartphone
- (d) All of the above
3. An e-mail address consists of four parts:
- (a) The username
- (b) The symbol
- (c) The hostname
- (d) The top-level domain
4. The following is not the name of an e-shopping portal:
- (a) Amazon
- (b) e-bay
- (c) twitter
- (d) naaptol
5. The benefit of E-learning is:
- (a) Class work can be scheduled around work and family
- (b) Reduces travel time and travel costs for off-campus students
- (c) Students can study anywhere they have access to a computer and Internet connection
- (d) All of the above
Security Threats and Safety Measures
1. Which of the following is an anti-virus program?
- (a) Norton
- (b) Quick heal
- (c) K7
- (d) All of these
2. All of the following are examples of real security and privacy threats except:
- (a) Hackers
- (b) Spam
- (c) Virus
- (d) Worm
3. Trojan horses are very similar to viruses in the matter that they are computer programs that replicate copies of themselves.
- (a) True
- (b) False
4. __________ monitors user activity on the internet and transmits that information in the background to someone else.
- (a) Malware
- (b) Adware
- (c) Spyware
- (d) None of these
5. Viruses are __________:
- (a) Man-made
- (b) Naturally occurring
- (c) Machine-made
- (d) All of the above
6. Firewall is a type of __________:
- (a) Virus
- (b) Worm
- (c) Security threat
- (d) None of the above
7. Unsolicited commercial email is known as __________:
- (a) Spam
- (b) Virus
- (c) Malware
- (d) Spyware