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01 - What is the Internet

 1. The Internet is…
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  a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP)

  a global satellite system

  a massive data centre in the Californian desert

  a software package

 2. The world wide web (www) is another word for the Internet.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 3. The world wide web is…
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  an Internet search engine

  a collection of documents and files identified by URLs and accessible via the Internet

  an old name for the Internet

  a brand name for the Internet

 4. How are most computers connected between Europe and North America?

  By radio transmitters

  By microwave transmitters

  By satellite

  By cables under the ocean

 5. An estimated 70% of all Internet traffic passes through the small town of Ashburn in the USA.
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  FALSE

  TRUE

 6. Who governs the Internet?

  A committee of experts

  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Each constituent network sets its own policies

  The United Nations

 7. What was the first network to implement the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP)?

  NOMINET

  IPSS

  ARPANET

  ENIAC

 8. Public use of the Internet began in 1989 when email became available.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 9. What does DNS stand for?

  Do Not Switch

  Derivative Nominal Structure

  Detailed Normal Signal

  Domain Name System

 10. Approximately how many Internet domain names had been registered by 2017?
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  230 million

  130 million

  330 million

  13 million

 11. The ARPANET (based in the US) was predominantly used for research purposes, connecting research institutions, including UK universities.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 12. In the 1970s ARPA funded other networks and tried to unite them. The limits of the initial network to 63 nodes and 252 hosts was reached and this is when the …

  TCP / IP Protocol was created

  The TCP/IP protocol that allows different networks to talk to each other was brought in

  TCP/IP was created and used. This protocol is still the main link between networks in the internet today.

  All of the above statements are true.

 13. As the internet consists of many different networks interlinking with each other, the internet has no central structure or governing body.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 14. The WWW (world wide web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents (web pages) accessed via the internet. 
It is not the same thing as the internet.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 15. The WWW is accessed through a ………………. and was invented by a British computer scientist, Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.

  ASCII server linking files together via email.

  Internet Provider linking files and pages together with a browser-sticky.

  DNS server linking files together using ASCII code

  web browser linking files together using hyperlinks

 16. Ever wondered how the internet worked? It works using a method called…

  internet switching

  router switching

  server switching

  packet switching

 17. To get from one device to another, __________need to travel through network adapters, switches, routers and network nodes.

  information converted into English words

  information encrypted as ASCII codes

  bits

  data packets

 18. During the 2011 Arab Spring, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya tried to stop their citizens from getting information from the outside world. They tried to switch the internet off!

  TRUE

  FALSE

 19. To search for Google's IP address, for example, you'd type tracert google.com into Command Prompt. What is an IP address?

  a numerical label that is assigned to the big players (e.g. google and facebook) only

  a physical address which includes a post code that is assigned by the country's mail system

  None of the above

   numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol

 20. Domain name is a humanly-memorable name for internet participants such as computers, networks, and services. One domain name can be connected to multiple IP addresses 
e.g. www.testandtrack.io or www.googl.com

  FALSE

  TRUE


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