Fundamentals of Business Information Systems – Chapter 4
Quiz
__________ is usually measured in bits per second.
- Bandwidth
- Efficiency
- Effectiveness
- Signals
________ allows multiple signals to be sent along one transmission link.
- A modem
- Wireless media
- A multiplexer
- A front-end processor
Bluetooth is the industry standard protocol for ________ communication.
- MAN
- WAN
- LAN
- PAN
Signals sent over a ______________ have several routes they could take.
- Mesh network
- DSL network
- Personal area network
- Local area network
An architecture where many computers have a dedicated job servicing other computers is known as _________.
- Decentralized
- Centralized
- Client/server
- Wi-Fi
A device that connects on LAN to another is a _________.
- Switch
- Bridge
- Gateway
- Router
Which of the following is not a top-level domain affiliation?
- com
- edu
- org
- sys
The technology most commonly used to upload webpages is known as ______.
- FTP
- HTML
- XML
- tags
A network used to share data among employees and several trusted third parties is ________.
- An intranet
- An extranet
- A mesh
- A WAN
Standards and tools that streamline communication among wevsites are known as _______.
- Web services
- Web pages
- Web forms
- Web contents
A(n) ____ is a special-purpose computer that manages communications to and from a computer system.
- Back-end processor
- Modem
- Front-end processor
- Multiplexer
____ are/is a terminal emulation protocol that enables users to log on to other computers on the Internet to gain access to public files.
- Telnet
- FTP
- ATM
- Newsgroups
The term ____ refers to a collection of interconnected networks, all freely exchanging information.
- Intranet
- Extranet
- World Wide Web
- Internet
A(n) ____ is an Internet site that matches people who want to sell products and services with people who want to purchase these products and services.
- Search engine
- Web auction
- Internet shopping site
- Bot
____ is an object-oriented programming language from Sun Microsystems that allows small programs to be embedded within an HTML document.
- Java
- C++
- C
- Visual Basic