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Modified 07 Feb 2005

FrontPage and Internet quiz B - 50 marks

Online learners do the quiz online, score the test and submit. Onsite learners do the quiz online; score the quiz and have your mark noted.

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... are messages, usually text, sent from one person to another via computer. ... can also be sent automatically to a large number of addresses.
Originally, ... meant to carry forth in a passionate manner in the spirit of honourable debate. ... most often involved the use of flowery language and ...ing well was an art form. More recently ... has come to refer to any kind of derogatory comment on e-mail no matter how witless or crude.
... is how much information you can send/receive through a telephone line connection when you are connected to the the Internet. Usually measured in bits per second. A full page of English text is about 16,000 bits. This would take about 1 second to download.
The part of the computer's memory where web pages that have been downloaded are stored temporarily. When you visit a web page on the Internet, the web browser looks in the ... to see if it can retrieve the data for that page instead of downloading it. (Select the best answer from the words given.)
This is a common method used for uploading files from your own computer to a Web server. It was also commonly used for downloading files from the Internet before these facilities became available via a Web browser.
This graphic (picture) file format allows images to transfer over telephone lines more quickly than other graphic formats.
A file, typically about five lines long, that people often insert at the end of electronic mail messages. It contains, minimally, a name and an email address.
A program that allows the user to search for and view data on the Internet.
The universe of hypertext servers which are the servers that allow text, graphics, sound files, etc. to be mixed together.
The two most common file formats for graphic images on the web are ...
A code used to gain access to a locked system. Good ...s contain letters and non-letters and are not simple combinations such as virtue7. A good ... might be: Hot$1-6
A ... consists of a list of e-mail addresses of a group of people who are members or subscribers of that .... This ... with addresses is based at a host computer connected to the Internet. The ... distributes each message sent to it, to all members of the mailing list.
Symbol composed of punctuation marks designed to express some form of emotion in the form of a human face. They were invented by e-mail users to overcome the fact that communication using text only cannot convey body language or vocal intonation used in ordinary speech.
A device that you connect to your computer and to a phone line, that allows the computer to talk to other computers through the phone system. Basically, ...s do for computers what a telephone does for humans.
The basic components of a data communication system are the sender (source), the medium (communication channel) and the receiver. Which of the following communication channels are being phased out in South Africa?
Choose the best alternative: Hypertext links can be recognised by ...
In the computing community the nickname given to the conventional postal service.
Who said the following? The Internet is the place where all the neat things are happening right now.
The Internet is an example of a ...
... an organization that has a permanent connection to the Internet and provides temporary connections to individuals and companies for a fee.
A company offering satellite links for the South African home user to connect to the Internet:
Sometimes called a dotted quad. A unique number consisting of four parts separated by dots, e.g. 165.113.245.2. Every machine that is on the Internet has a unique ... number - if a machine does not have an ... number, it is not really on the Internet. Most machines also have one or more domain names that are easier for people to remember.
Just as you have a telephone service provider (e.g.Telkom), you have to subscribe to an ... if you want Internet access. Major ...'s in this country are MWeb and IAfrica. There are many others.
The World Wide Web has elements or attributes such as Cross-platform support which means ...
The unique name that identifies an Internet site. ... names always have two or more parts, separated by dots. The part on the left is the most specific, and the part on the right is the most general.
For example, the domain names: schoolnet.org.za (Schoolnet is the name of the organisation and org.za indicates that it is an organisation in South Africa).
Several meanings. Originally, the web page that your browser is set to use when it starts up. The more common meaning refers to the main web page for a collection of web pages, e.g. Look at so-and-so's new ... page.
Generally, any text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed.
The coding language used to create hypertext documents for use on the World Wide Web. ... looks a lot like old-fashioned typesetting code, where you surround a block of text with codes that indicate how it should appear, additionally, in ... you can specify that a block of text, or a word, is linked to another file on the Internet. ... files are meant to be viewed using a World Wide Web browser, such as Internet Explorer.
A web-based tool that finds web pages based on terms and criteria specified.
Hyperlinks that point to nonexistent files are referred to as ...
Hypertext links are activated by ....
Synchronous communication. For example, talking to someone on the phone is in ..., whereas listening to a message someone left on your answering machine is not (asynchronous communication).
The standard way to give the address of any resource on the Internet.
A set of rules that describe how a web server communicates with another program on the same machine, and how the other programme (the ... program) talks to the web server. Any piece of software can be a ... program if it handles input and output according to the ... standard. Usually a ... program is a small program that takes data from a web server and does something with it, like putting the content of a form into an email message.
An Excel file can be saved as an HTML file.
Not a South African search engine.
Etiquette on the Internet.
A new programming language invented by Sun Microsystems that is specifically designed for writing programs that can be safely downloaded to your computer through the Internet and immediately run without fear of viruses or other harm to your computer or files. Using small ... programs (called Applets), web pages can include functions such as animations, calculations, and other fancy tricks.
The user name used to gain access to a computer system.
When the mouse pointer is positioned on an e-mail hyperlink, the e-mail URL displays on the status bar.
The file extension of a web page.
A software program that allows you to view, search and download items from the Web. Common ...s are Netscape and Internet Explorer.
A computer directly connected to the Internet that contains web pages that are served (sent) to other computers on the Internet.
The vast collection of interconnected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved in the late 60s and early 70s. The ... connects roughly over 100 000 independent networks into a vast global ....
A type of connection to the Internet that allows you to call a computer directly on the Internet, staying connected only during the time you are online.
A ... usually means a city or location where a network can be connected to, often with dialup phone lines. So if an Internet company says they will soon have a ... in Bloemfontein, it means that they will soon have a local phone number in Bloemfontein and/or a place where leased lines can connect to their network.
To work ... you have to have created a connection to the Internet via a network or by dialling up to your Internet Service Provider.
Special graphic images containing hotspots are called ...
Software made available, usually over the Internet, for free on a trial basis. The developer asks those who keep and use it, to pay a nominal fee.
Any time you connect two or more computers together so that they can share resources, you have a computer .... Connect two or more ...s together and you have an Internet.

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