Chapter 3
Asynchronous communication requires that both the sender and the receiver are active at the same time.
False
Internet communications are sent strictly through telephone lines.
False
Multicasting and point-to-point communication are equivalent terms.
False
Once connected to a Web server, the connection remains in place until the client requests a page from another client.
False
The Internet is not fast enough to mimic synchronous communication.
False
The World Wide Web and the Internet are the same.
False
The term "www" must be included when typing all Web addresses.
False
URLs are always case sensitive.
False
When a computer is connected to the Internet via ISP for the first time, it is assigned an IP that it keeps for the life of the computer.
False
An example of a top-level domain is .edu.
True
Each computer connected to the Internet is given its own unique Internet Protocol address.
True
Intranet refers to a network that supports communication between different organizations.
True
Most interactions over the Internet use a protocol known as client/server interaction.
True
The Internet supports point-to-point asynchronous communication.
True
There is no direct connection between a client and a server structure.
True
To describe how a Web page should look, many pages use Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
True
When files are placed on a server, the process is known as uploading.
True
A related group of networked computers forms a:
domain
www.cs.washington.edu is a(n):
domain
Getting files from a Web server is called:
downloading
A directory is also known as a(n):
file system
When referring to hierarchy trees, _____ in the hierarchy means into subfolders; that is towards the leaves.
lower
The very last part of a URL is the:
pathname
On the Web, the substitution of one URL for another is called:
redirection
A(n) ______ is a computer that provides services to another computer.
server
In a directory hierarchy, folder names are separated by a:
slash (/)
A telephone conversation is an example of ___________ communication because both people in the conversation must perform one of the two parts of the communication (talking or listening) simultaneously.
synchronous
DSL stands for:
Digital subscriber line
In a client/server structure, there:
are transmissions to complete a request
Folders can contain:
both files and folders
Communication between one sender and many receivers is called:
broadcast communication
Communications between one sender and many receivers is called:
broadcast communication
A computer is considered a(n) ______ when it gets services from another computer.
client
The tree-like organization of folders and files on a computer forms the:
directory hierarchy
A network of networks is a good description of the ________.
internet