Cyber Quiz
The Internet: It’s growing faster than we can manage to keep up. Penetrating our professional and personal lives, this tool brings the world to our fingertips with a click of a mouse or cell phone button. But with this increase in information also comes an influx of misinformation. Test your knowledge on what’s real and what’s not in the globe’s largest electronic world.
1. What does WWW stand for? VI
World Wacky Web
Wide World Wumpus
World Wide Web —-
Wide World of Why?
2. What does URL stand for? VIII
united route link
uniform resource locator —-
unknown redirection link
up real late
3. What is the name of the language you use to write a web page? VIII
HTTP
FTP
URL
HTML —
4. Which of the following terms is a “browser”? VII
yahoo—-
World Wide Web
Launcher
E-mail
5. All web addresses start with which of the following? VII
htp
http://—-
hts:/
xxx
6. A word that looks underlined on a web page is usually what? IX
an important word
the web address
a “link” to another web page—-
a mistake
7. Which region’s population uses the Internet most? X
–Asia
North America
Europe
8. What percentage of Internet users are under the age of 25? XI
25 percent
–45 percent
78 percent
9. Which one of the following is a search engine? VII | ||||
(A) | Macromedia Flash | |||
(B) | ||||
(C) | Netscape | |||
(D) | Librarians’ Index to the Internet | |||
10.What’s considered the “backbone” of the World Wide Web? IX
- Uniform resource locator (URL)
- Hypertext mark-up language (HTML)
- —Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
11.What’s the best way to describe the Internet? VI
- One master computer that connects to all of our homes
- —-A network of networks
- A series of pipes
12. What is a spider? XI
A computer virus
constantly scan the Internet for new and updated Web sites
A hacker who breaks into corporate computer systems
An application for viewing Web sites
13. Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) is a | |||||
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VIII
14. Internet Explorer is a VIII | |||||||||
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15. A domain name ending with “org” is IX | |||||||||
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16. ISP stands for X | |||||||||
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17.An IP Address is the Internet equivalent of: XI |
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18.How many blocks of numbers make up an IP Address? XII |
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a) 4 — |
b) 2 |
c) 1 |
d) 3 |
19.The term DNS stands for: XII |
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a) Domain Name System—- |
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Each host on the Internet has a unique address called the: XII |
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a) MAC Address |
b) IP Address — |
c) Host Name |
d) FTP Address |