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
  1. high-speed network

  2. web browser

  3. searh engine

  4. multimedia object

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

Netscape Navigator was one of the first and most popular web browsers that allowed users to access and navigate the World Wide Web. A browser is software for viewing websites, not a network, search engine, or multimedia object.

Multiple choice
  1. directory

  2. search

  3. navigational tool

  4. web page

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

A hyperlink is a navigational element that allows users to move between web pages, documents, or different sections within a document. When clicked, it directs the browser to load the linked resource, making it an essential navigational tool of the World Wide Web. It is not a directory (which organizes files), a search function, or a web page itself.

Multiple choice
  1. online advertising

  2. pull technology

  3. push technology

  4. online advertisement recieval

  5. None of these

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

Option (3) is correct.

Multiple choice
  1. Home

  2. Browser

  3. URL

  4. Launch

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

When you launch a web browser, the first page that appears is called the home page. This is a configurable setting that can be set to any website the user prefers (such as a search engine, news site, or blank page). The term 'home page' specifically refers to this default starting page, not the browser application itself, the URL, or the launch action.

Multiple choice
  1. typing the URL in the browser's address box

  2. clicking a hyperlink to the URL

  3. storing the URL in your browser's favorites or bookmarks list

  4. all the above

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

All the listed methods are valid ways to visit a web page: (1) typing the URL directly in the browser's address bar, (2) clicking on a hyperlink that connects to that URL, or (3) accessing a saved URL from your browser's favorites or bookmarks list. These are the three primary methods users navigate to web pages, making 'all the above' the correct answer.

Multiple choice
  1. an e-mail

  2. a spam

  3. a search engine

  4. a restricted website

  5. None of these

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

Google is the most popular search engine.

Multiple choice
  1. Internet information file

  2. Intranet file

  3. Image file

  4. Sound driver file

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

A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is a piece of data stored by a website within a browser, and then subsequently sent back to the same website by the browser. So, it is an Internet information file.

Multiple choice
  1. Usenet

  2. INFINET

  3. WordNet

  4. Mozilla

  5. WordPress

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

WordNet is a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations.

Multiple choice
  1. Widget

  2. Hyperlink

  3. Google Toolbar

  4. Pagerank

  5. Applet

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

Pagerank is an algorithm used by google search to rank websites in their search engine results. Pagerank works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites.

Multiple choice
  1. HTTP

  2. HTML

  3. RFC

  4. XML

  5. URI

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

A uniform resource identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name of a web resource. Such identification enables interaction with representations of the web resource over a network (typically the World Wide Web) using specific protocols. Schemes specifying a concrete syntax and associated protocols define each URI.

Multiple choice
  1. HTTP

  2. URL

  3. IP address

  4. MAC address

  5. FTP

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

The Uniform Resource Locator, abbreviated as URL (also known as web address, particularly when used with HTTP), is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.