AP Computer Science Benchmark 2

Which of the following situations is most likely to cause issues arising from the digital divide?

A state makes voter registration forms available only by visiting a government website

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the IP address?

IP addresses provide a unique number for identifying devices that send and receive information on the internet

What two statements are true about the IP

1-each device or computer on the internet s assigned a unique IP address 2- IP is the shared way that all devices and computers label their messages with the sender and receivers address

Which of the following is true of how the internet has responded to the increasing number of devices now using the network?

The protocols of the internet were designed to scale as new devices are added

Which of the following internet protocol is most important in reassembling packets and requesting missing packets to form complete messages?

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

Two devices are connected to the internet and communicating with one another. A squirrel chews through one of the wires in the network and immediately begins using a different path through the network and communication continues as normal. This situation best exemplifies which principle?

Fault tolerance

Which of the following internet protocols is used to request and send pages and files on the world wide web?

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Which of the following is true of how packets are sent through the internet?

Packets metadata is used to route and reassemble information traveling through the internet

Which of the following is most likely to be an outcome of the digital divide?

People from some racial and ethnic groups have unequal access to computing technology

An internet service provider (ISP) is a company that builds the routers and the wired connections that allow individuals to access the internet. an ISP is considering adding additional redundant connections to its network. Which explains why the company would do that?

redundant networks are more reliable