Chapter 1 Review Questions

1. Of the following organizations, which one coordinates applications for new TLDs?
a. Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
b. Engineering Task Force (IETF) 

c. Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN)
d. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)


2. Which of the following is a network that covers a small area, such as a group of buildings?

a. LAN     b. WAN     c. Internet    d. WWW

True/False
7. The World Wide Web was developed to allow companies to conduct e-commerce over the Internet. 

8. A URL is one type of URI.

9. A domain name that ends in .net indicates that the Web site is for a networking company.
10. Markup languages contain sets of directions that tell the browser software how to display and manage a Web document.

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11. ___________ combines the formatting strengths of HTML 4.0 and the data structure and extensibility strengths of XML.

12. A standard language used for specifying a markup language or tag set is ________________.

13. _________ is the set of markup symbols or codes placed in a file intended for display on a

Web browser.

14. The World Wide Web was developed by an individual working at ________.

15. Frequently communicating by posting brief messages at a social networking site is called

_________________.

16. The purpose of ____________  is to ensure the integrity of the communication.


17. Which of the markup languages listed below is intended to extend the power of HTML by separating data from presentation?

a. XML   b. XHTML     c. HTML 5    d. SGML

18. What is a unique text-based Internet address corresponding to a computer’s unique numeric IP
address called? a. IP address     b. domain name    c. URL    d. user name


19. Which of the organizations listed below takes a proactive role in developing recommendations and prototype technologies related to the Web?
a. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)           
b. Web Professional Standards Organization(WPO)c. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
d. Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN)

20. Describe the difference between the Internet and an intranet.

21. Explain three events that contributed to the commercialization and exponential growth of the Internet.

22. Describe the difference between the Internet and the Web.
4. Describe the components of the client/server model as applied to the Internet.

5. Identify two protocols used on the Internet to convey information that use the Internet but do not use the Web.

6. Explain the similarities and differences between a URL and a domain name.

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