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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

Programs that automatically submit your search request to several search engines simultaneously are called

  1. Metasearch engines

  2. Webcrawlers

  3. Spiders

  4. Hits

  5. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Metasearch engines (like Dogpile, Metacrawler) do not maintain their own database. Instead, they forward user queries to multiple search engines simultaneously and aggregate the results. Webcrawlers and spiders are automated programs that browse the web to index pages, while 'hits' refers to search results, not a search tool.

Multiple choice

What is the part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely posted on the internet called?

  1. Scholarly paper

  2. Grey literature

  3. Preprint

  4. Green Paper

  5. Scientific method
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Academic publishing describes the subfield of publishing, which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in journal article, book or in the form of thesis. The part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely printed up or posted on the internet is often called grey literature.

Multiple choice

What is the act of depositing a free copy of an electronic document on the internet called?

  1. Self-archiving

  2. Peer review

  3. Proceedings

  4. Outsourcing

  5. Citation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Self-archiving is the act of depositing a free copy of an electronic document on the internet, or more specifically on the World Wide Web, in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles, as well as theses and book chapters, deposited in the author's own institutional repository or open archive for maximizing its accessibility, usage and citation impact.

Multiple choice

What does HTTPS stand for?

  1. Hypertext Transfer Protocols Secure

  2. HyperText Transport Protocol Secure

  3. Hypertext Transfer Protocol System

  4. Hypertext Transport Protocol System

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transport Protocol Secure.

Multiple choice

In email, paralinguistic elements can be displayed by _______.

  1. grammar

  2. spam

  3. prosody

  4. emoticons

  5. syntax
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In text-only communication such as email, chat rooms and instant messaging, paralinguistic elements can be displayed by emoticons, font and color choices, capitalization and the use of non-alphabetic or abstract characters.

Multiple choice

Which of these is a global information medium?

  1. HTTP

  2. Electronic mail

  3. World Wide Web

  4. World Wide Web Consortium

  5. Internet service provider
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet.