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1.
What does qwerty stand for?
A. The row of the letters that the left hand keys in
B. The inventor’s name
2.
Where is the qwerty keyboard mainly used?
A. In the U.S.
B. Outside the U.S.
3.
Who invented the Dvorak keyboard?
A. Lady Ada Lovelace
B. John Querty
C. August Dvorak
4.
When was the Dvorak keyboard invented?
A. In August
B. 1936
C. 1872
5.
What is the purpose of a modem?
A. To translate data into a signal that can be transmitted by telephone lines
B. To save data in permanent storage
C. To automatically correct spelling and grammar errors
6.
Who commisioned the early version of what we know as the Internet?
A. U.S. Department of Defense
B. M.I.T.
C. Queen Elizabeth
7.
How is today’s e-mail different from that of 30 years ago?
A. mime format allows attachments of files and multimedia content
B. e-mail is slower
C. e-mail is used by fewer people now
8.
What is a backbone?
A. A bony structure to help us stand erect
B. A strong will
C. A network of mid-level computers that control and direct Internet traffic
9.
Why did the National Science Foundation create the Very High Speed Backbone Network Service?
A. Existing networks were saturated
B. Internet use and demand was decreasing
C. NSF wanted to bolster the economy
10.
What are domain letters for an educational address?
A. gov
B. net
C. edu
11.
What are the domain letters for a business address?
A. com
B. net
C. org
12.
By looking at the URL, how can you tell if a Web page is located at a school or educational organization?
A. A school would probably have the domain .edu
B. A school district or educational organization might have the domain .org
C. Both of the above
13.
How does spamming impact everybody’s e-mail access and service?
A. provides valuable information
B. is very educational
C. clogs the superhighway with data and slows down access
14.
How do Boolean operators make searching more effective?
A. by answering questions
B. by telling the search engine how the keywords are related
C. by grouping words to find many more “hits”
15.
Lady Ada Lovelace is a well-known
A. programmer and prophet of the Computer Age
B. movie star
C. chemical engineer
16.
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is
A. the underlying programming language for software programs
B. the code used to create Web pages
C. a language for writing operating systems
17.
The World Wide Web was initially developed at
A. cern
B. NDSU
C. unl
18.
Software for the Mac and MS windows platforms were created in
A. 1993
B. 1999
C. 1890
19.
When doing a search on the Internet, it is a good idea to
A. start with general terms and get more specific
B. start with specific terms and get more general
C. use many words in the search field without any punctuation
20. The following questions cover situations involving good manners on the Internet.
You just received a brief e-mail message form a friend who sent the same message to a large list of people (the “To:” list went on and on). What’s the best way to send a personal response to your friend’s message?
A. Click on the Reply to All button to send your reply to everyone on the list.
B. Click on New Message and send your response directly to your friend.
C. Click on Print to print your friend’s message, hand-write a letter on the back of the sheet, and mail your letter to your friend’s home address.
21. The following questions cover situations involving good manners on the Internet.
Your friend tells you about a Web site that has a really good information that you might be able to use for a research project. You look at the domain and see that the domain is .com. What does this domain tell you about the nature of the information ?
A. A .com is a business, so the information may be promoting a product, thus presenting a bias in favor of the product . This is the type of information that research projects should include.
B. The site may be a professional educator or a consultant who owns a small business. The information may be accurate and even cutting-edge, the type that you should use for a research project.
C. The information is completely false because it is on a business site and not an .edu site, and only .edu sites have accurate, trustworthy information.
22. The following questions cover situations involving good manners on the Internet.
Several virtual high school students from all around the world agree to do a group research project with you. What is the most sensible way to start this project?
A. Send a e-mail to the others, generally descri
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