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Computers 101 Practice Test: The Internet and the World Wide Web
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Computers 101 Practice Test: The Internet and the World Wide Web
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1. Anthony regularly visits several popular political ____, which are Web pages designed to facilitate written discussions between people on specific subjects.
2. Every day, Anthony makes a new post to his personal ____, which is a Web page that displays entries in chronological order.
3. ____ limit search results to just those pages with a specific Web page title, URL, text, or top-level domain.
4. The ____ is cited as a disadvantage of Web-based training and distance learning by some educators.
5. Online shopping and online investing are examples of ____.
6. One advantage of a dial-up connection is ____.
7. ____ is a new alternative for homes and businesses today in areas where there is fiber optic cabling available all the way to the building.
8. In a nutshell, blogs are designed for primarily one-way running communications, while ____ are intended to be modified by others.
9. Direct Internet connections are typically ____ connections.
10. Today, the standard term for placing telephone calls over any type of data network (including the Internet, as well as a LAN, WAN, or other type of data network) is ____.
11. A(n) ____ is a collection of an individual’s work accessible through a Web site.
12. ____ refers to any instruction delivered via the Web.
13. Common online investing services include the ability to set up a(n) ____ that displays the status of the stocks you specify.
14. Most search sites use a ____—a software program—in conjunction with a huge database of information about Web pages to help visitors find Web pages that contain the information they are seeking.
15. ____ cookies are cookies placed on your hard drive by a company other than the one associated with the Web page that you are viewing—typically a Web advertising company.
16. Brenda likes to download her music from a(n) ____ site and then transfer it to her portable digital media player so that she can listen to her music while she’s away from her computer.
17. Internet Explorer users can view and/or delete cookies and other temporary files by using the ____ dialog box.
18. ____ sites allow you to generate map and driving directions and provide access to specific types of useful information.
19. One objective of the ____ project was to create a computer network that would allow researchers located in different places to communicate with each other.
20. One of the most straightforward ways to improve the quality of the hits returned in a search is to use ____—essentially typing more than one keyword in a keyword search.
21. ____ is an online news tool designed for facilitating the delivery of news articles, podcasts, and other content regularly published to a Web site.
22. ____ is charged with such responsibilities as IP address allocation and domain name management.
23. Many Web pages today use ____ —small text files that are stored on your hard drive by a Web server, typically the one associated with the Web page being viewed—to identify return visitors and their preferences.
24. The primary infrastructure that makes up the ____ is typically owned by communications companies, such as telephone and cable companies.
25. Conventional dial-up connects to the Internet at a maximum of ____.

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