Computer Knowledge

Internet and Web

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The Internet and Web encompass global networks, web portals, browsers, and online communication tools. This hub provides questions on basic internet concepts, email structures, and web terminology. Strong knowledge here is vital for scoring well in computer awareness sections.

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Internet and Web Questions

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Transilerate

  2. Change my Lang

  3. Yahoo translate

  4. Babel Fish

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Babel Fish was Yahoo's online translation service, similar to Google Translate. It was launched in 1999 and later shut down in 2012. The service was named after the Babel fish from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. What I Know Is

  2. When I Know Is

  3. Why I Know Is

  4. Where I Know Is

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

WIKI is often backronymed as 'What I Know Is'. A backronym is an acronym invented after the fact to explain a word - WIKI comes from Hawaiian meaning 'fast' or 'quick', not from this phrase.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Chatterbot

  2. internet bots

  3. Spambot

  4. IRC bot

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Internet bots (also called web bots or WWW robots) are automated scripts used to detect and remove vandalism from Wikipedia. They can quickly identify obvious vandalism, spam, or malicious edits and revert them. Chatterbots are for conversation, spambots send spam, and IRC bots operate on chat channels - none are designed for Wikipedia vandalism control.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. wikipedia

  2. wikimapia

  3. google

  4. yahoo

  5. orkut

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'Let's describe the whole world' was WikiMapia's tagline, reflecting their mission to create a detailed map of the entire world through user contributions. WikiMapia combines mapping with collaborative descriptions, distinguishing it from Wikipedia's encyclopedia approach or search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Multiple choice general knowledge
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Collabnet address for this Deutsche Bank project is http://www.dbcde.com. This is the specific internal or partner portal configured for the project team's collaboration needs. Options A and B point to the generic Collabnet company website, and option C points to CNET (a technology news site), none of which would be the correct project-specific collaboration portal.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. facebook

  2. orkut

  3. rediffmail

  4. hi5

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This question asks about a tagline associated with a social network. Orkut's tagline was 'Who Do You Know?' reflecting its focus on connecting with known people.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. GOOGLE SIDEWIKI

  2. GOOGLE COMMENT

  3. COOMENT ANYWHERE

  4. BLOGGER SERVICES

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Google Sidewiki was a browser toolbar feature (2009-2011) that allowed users to add comments to any webpage, visible to other Sidewiki users. It was part of Google's effort to enable web-wide discussion. 'Comment Anywhere' describes the concept but 'Google SideWiki' was the actual product name.

Multiple choice general knowledge
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The correct HTML element for creating a hyperlink is with the 'href' attribute specifying the destination URL. Option D correctly shows example. Options A and C incorrectly use 'url' and 'name' attributes which don't exist for hyperlinks, while B is missing the href attribute entirely.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Some websites are not informative.

  2. All websites are useful.

  3. None

  4. Both

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Valid syllogism: All informative things are useful (informative ⊆ useful). Some websites are not useful (websites ∩ useful ≠ websites). Since some websites fall outside the useful set and all informative things are inside it, those websites cannot be informative, meaning some websites are not informative.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Services to manage unstructured content that is delivered over the Internet

  2. Services to manage unstructured content that is delivered over the Intranet

  3. Services to manage structured content that is delivered over the Intranet

  4. Services to manage structured content that is delivered over the Internet

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Web Content Management refers to services that manage unstructured content (web pages, documents, media) delivered over the Internet. This is the standard definition of WCM systems. Intranets typically use different document management systems, and WCM deals with unstructured, not structured content.