Computer Concepts Test 2
The type of e-mail that is managed by your browser and enables you to access your e-mail from anywhere you have interest access is _______ e-mail.
Web-Based.
When you are sending one email to all of your friends in your address book, you should use the _____ field to keep their address private.
Bcc:
When you set up a new email account, you may have to enter a distorted series of letters and numbers, called a _____, to ensure that you are a human and not a computer.
Captcha
An email claiming that you have won a lottery might be an example of ______.
Computer fraud.
Any email that you send is private, and it cannot be read by anyone other than the person to whom it is addressed.
False.
Emails are completely private.
False.
One disadvantage to using a webmail interface is that you can only access your email from your home computer.
False.
If you want to send and receive email messages containing images and formatted test, you need to ensure that your email program is configured to read _____ email messages.
HTML
Which of the following is not true about email?
It cannot be accessed by hackers.
An email containing a virus hoax is dangerous because _____.
It causes people to search for and delete important files.
An email supposedly from your IT department asking for your password so that is can troubleshoot your account is a form of _____.
Phishing.
When you receive an email, and you want to reply back to the sender and all of the addresses that were included in the original message, you should use ______.
Reply all.
Unwanted or junk e-mail is called _____.
Spam.
A conversation that takes place on a discussion board is called a _____.
Thread.
It is a good idea to obtain an email account that is not tied to your ISP, so that when you change service providers you won't lose your email account.
True.
Once a computer is infected, a virus can use the email program to send out copies of itself.
True.
One way to access email is to read it online through a webmail interface.
True.
When you send an email to your professor, a server holds onto that email until the professor requests it.
True.
With the client-based e-mail account, such as Microsoft Outlook, you are able to view your e-mail only from the computer on which the client program is installed.
True.
All of the following are tips for professional e-mail etiquette, EXCEPT _____.
Use abbreviations such as "u", "r", and "BRB" to keep the email message shorter.