Title: OLD Internet Technologies
Course: Module 1, Concepts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Q: Which of the following are Operating Systems?
- Windows XP (Correct)
- Microsoft Word (Incorrect, Word is a software application)
- Linux (Correct)
- DOS (Correct)
- Internet Explorer (No, internet explorer is a software application)
- Mac OSX (Correct)
A: Windows XP; Linux; DOS; Mac OSX

Q: Match the Operating System to the vendor...
- Microsoft | Windows 2000
- Windows 98 | Microsoft
- Sun | Solaris
- OS10 | Apple Mac
- Mandrake | Linux
- Linux | Red Hat

Q: A word processor is a computerized dictionary
- True
- False
A: False

Q: It is possible to write letters without using Microsoft Word
- True
- False
A: True

Q: To use a computer, you do not need an operating system, but you do need software applications - or 'programs'
- True (Correct)
- False (Sorry, you need an operating system so you can install the software applications)
A: False

Q: The Operating System is a program
- True
- False
A: True

Q: Which of the followings is NOT a function of the Operating System?
- Managing the printer
- Display a web page
- Running programs
- Storing files in a floppy drive
A: Display a web page

Q: This is a technology from US Robotics (now 3Com) for
the downstream transmission of data over ordinary phone lines at 56
Kbps.
- Y-modem
- xDSL
- Z-modem
- x2
A: x2

Q: This was the original approach for modulation of a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) signal.
- Carrierless amplitude/phase
- Pulse Code Modulation
- Quadrature amplitude modulation
- Phase-shift keying
A: Carrierless amplitude/phase

Q: This trademarked version of DSL that is somewhat slower than ADSL but has the advantage that a "splitter" does not need to be installed at the user's end.
- Unified messaging
- Consumer DSL
- G.Lite
- Netcast
A: Consumer DSL

Q: This type of DSL is used for wideband digital transmission within a corporate site and between the telephone company and a customer. It is symmetrical, meaning that an equal amount of bandwidth is available in both directions.
- BAL
- High bite-rate DSL
- vBNS
- Wideband code-division multiple access
A: High bite-rate DSL

Q: The Internet address through which your ISP gives you access to the Internet is known as the...
- Head-end
- Backbone
- htaccess
- Point of Presence
- Uplink
A: Point of Presence

Q: The arrangement between Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange traffic is called...
- Internetwork Packet Exchange
- Routing
- Packet-switching
- LAN share
- Peering
A: Peering

Q: When you get connected to the Internet with a modem, the exchange of information between your modem and the modem at the other end and the resulting agreement about which protocol to use is called:
- Authentication
- Handshaking
- Bit stuffing
- Blogging
- Modem doubling
A: Handshaking

Q: To learn the path that your requests for Web pages or other files are taking to get to a specific Web site or other Internet location, use...
- Router
- tracert
- Multiprotocol switching
- PING
- Whois
A: tracert

Q: Solutions for a major remaining challenge to high-bandwidth applications such as on-demand television, fast Internet access, and Web pages full of multimedia effects are known as...
- Doppler effect
- Fast Packet Switching
- Last-mile technology
- Load balancing
- Fibre to the curb
A: Last-mile technology

Q: This type of Internet business charges individuals or enterprises an access fee for applications and related services that would otherwise have to be located in their own personal or enterprise computers.
- Web services
- Metered services
- Knowledge warehouse
- Application service provider
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
A: Application service provider

Q: This is an industry term for software that analyzes data about customers to develop a better understanding of the customer and how the customer is using a company's products and services.
- Content aggregator
- Adware
- Spyware
- Fourier analysis
- Enterprise relationship management
A: Enterprise relationship management

Q: This is a method for business-to-business purchase and sale of supplies and services over the Internet.
- Supplier relationship management
- e-tailing
- e-procurement
- Enterprise resource management
- Supply chain management
A: e-procurement

Q: This approach to understanding customer behavior involves the integration of information gathered by traditional data mining techniques with information gathered over the World Wide Web.
- OLAP
- Enterprise management resource
- Web mining
- Business intelligence
- Knowldge management
A: Web mining

Q: This is an industry term used to describe the
progression of steps a customer goes through when considering,
purchasing, using, and maintaining loyalty to a product or service.
- Collocation
- Pervasive computing
- Customer life cycle
- Decision support system
- Predication
A: Customer life cycle

Q: This Internet business model generates revenue by offering pay-per-view Web pages, Web links, or Web services for small amounts of money.
- eCash
- Micropayment
- Smart card
- Electronic bill presentment and payment
- EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale)
A: Micropayment

Q: This industry initiative, headed by Microsoft, was created to promote Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the common data exchange language for e-commerce.
- BizTalk
- ebXML
- OASIS
- NewsML
- e-clusion
A: BizTalk

Q: This Web site feature involves tailoring pages to individual users' characteristics or preferences.
- Digital silhouettes
- Customer relationship management
- Platform for privacy preferences
- Click stream analysis
- Personalisation
A: Personalisation

Q: This XML-based protocol is intended to serve as a standard for managing complex business-to-business (B2B) transactions among multiple organizations.
- Information and Content Exchange
- Business Transaction Protocol
- Service Location Protocol
- Network Data Management Protocol
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
A: Business Transaction Protocol

Q: This is the handling of voice, fax, and regular text messages as objects in a single mailbox that a user can access either with a regular e-mail client or by telephone.
- Short Message Service (SMS)
- IrDA
- UMTS
- Unified messaging
A: Unified messaging

Q: This technology allows programmers to use Java programming language and related tools to develop programs for mobile wireless information devices such as cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
- Enterprise JavaBeans
- Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition
- Telemetrics
- Specialized Mobile Radio
- Windows CE
A: Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition

Q: ........ is a security protocol designed to provide a wireless LAN with a level of security and privacy comparable to what is usually expected of a wired LAN.
- WEP
- 802.11x
- RMON
- LDAP
A: WEP

Q: This is a specification for a set of communication protocols to standardize the way that wireless devices can be used for Internet access.
- WAP
- WAX
- VSAT
- TETRA
A: WAP

Q: This term was invented by networking expert John Sidgmore to describe the tiny portable electronic devices that experts predict will become wildly popular with young people and put new demands on network bandwidth capacity.
- Script kiddy
- Eye candy
- Silicon roach
- Pulsing zombie
- Honey pot
A: Silicon roach

Q: Microsoft Access Database is not an RDBMS
- True
- False
A: False

Q: Which of the following Operating Systems are "Open Source"
- Windows
- Macintosh
- Linux
- WinME
- FreeBSD
A: Linux; FreeBSD

Q: Which web server is used on the Linux operating system by default
- Apache
- Tomcat
- Weblogic
- IIS
- Websphere
A: Apache

Q: What type of artificial intelligence (AI) program, first developed in the mid-1900s, is designed to differentiate a human from a computer?
A: Turing