Glossary Quiz


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For each question select the correct term for the given description. Mark your answer by clicking with the mouse in the white circle by the correct answer, only one per question is allowed.
1. This kind of friendly user interface is more flexible than the older text only computer displays, by allowing images, icons and text to be shown on the screen at the same time.

2. The most popular network interface card used in the business world is a(an)

3. Provides the ability to connect to a remote computer and work with it on an interactive basis. Your computer will act as a terminal of the remote computer, which will respond to your commands.

4. An up and coming language on the web that allows users to create and define their own tags instead of relying on predetermined HTML is

5. A protocol commonly used on the World Wide Web.

6. A common way to transfer files from one computer to another.

7. Data that provides links between key elements, allowing you to move through information nonsequentially. For example, when you click on the blue text in your browser it will take you somewhere else.

8. A protocol that deals with security--particularly privacy, authentication and message integrity.

9. When considering physical drives versus logical drives

10. A computer which provides data, files or other resources for other computers connected to it via a network.

11. A standard for representing computer characters in text format.

12. These are usually Zip files, indicated by the file extension (filename.zip). They can contain a single file or all of the files in a directory stored in a single file (this process is also know as archiving).

13. A format in which you would expect to find many of the images on the Internet.

14. Protocols that make your computer think that it is connected to the internet, when in fact, you do not have a direct connection to the internet.

15. An address indicating where a computer is located on the Internet. (Example: http://www.wdp.com/)




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