MIS 111 Module 3 Exam Review

GPS uses the known speed of the signals and distance from ________ satellite(s) to find the location of a receiving station or user.

3

How many websites are there within the Eller College?

37

________ cellular networks use digital signals and can transmit voice and data at different speeds based on how fast the user is moving; it supports video, web browsing, and instant messaging.

3G

How many websites will there be after our redesigned site launches?

4

[Curvature] Due to the curvature of the earth, microwave towers generally cannot be spaced more than about how many kilometers apart?

48

[Irridum] When deployed, the Irridium satellite telephone network was based on a constellation of 66 satellites. However, how many operational satellites were originally proposed for the original constellation? (Hint the name Irridum was selected due to this number.)

77

In the assigned reading, Don Norman makes the case for viewing conceptual models as what?

A story in context

What type of tag directive is used with an IMG (image) directive to improve accessibility?

ALT

One of the origins of the Internet was the result of a project by US government agency?

Advanced Research Project Agency

The of the origins of the Internet was the result of a project by what US government agency

Advanced Research Project Agency

Why are there so many different physical connector types? 1) the function (serial, parallel, video) often defines the number of signals required 2) different symbols, shapes and size reduces errors when making connections 3) connector design evolve as technology improves 4) only (1) and 2 above 5) all of the above

All of the above

If you are using a normal flat screen television (these are 1080P) what is the minimum speed to you need to consistently stream across services?

At least 25 Mbps

What issue that would normally be considered an impairment for wireless communication serves as the basis of spatial multiplexing?

Attenuation

What low-power, non-directional wireless technology is used to create small personal area networks for cell phones and portable music players?

Bluetooth

Which of the following wireless technologies was associated with Harald Blaatand II?

Bluetooth

Social computing has vastly altered both the expectations of customers and the capabilities of corporations in the area of _________.

CRM

Packets sent over which route will arrive first (shortest transmission time?

Can't be determined from the information shown

The expansion of telecommunications infrastructure occurred primarily during while era of globalization as described by Thomas Friedman? 1) countries 2) companies 3) individuals

Companies

What term did Don Norman define as story that puts the operation of the system into context, weaving together all of the essential components, providing a framework, a context, and reasons for understanding?

Conceptual model

When we discussed the design of network infrastructure, we noted that the design of connectors on computers we generally related to the speed of the communication interface, the function being supported (number of signals required), and what other issue related to human-computer interaction?

Constraints to improve reliability

What is the name of software that allows publishing, editing, and modifying content from a central interface, providing procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment?

Content Management Systems

________ modems use the digital portion of a voice telephone to offer broadband access

DSL

What term did the textbook author use to describe when the functions of many physical devices are included in one other physical device?

Dematerialization

During which phase of the website transformation processwould the project team for developing perform content analysis, layout the website using wireframes, and define a consistent visual design?

Developing Site Structure

What term is used to describe an individual who was born after the widespread adoption of digital technology and have grown up using technology like the Internet, computers and mobile devices?

Digital Native

What type of repeater has the greatest throughput

Double Radio

________ offer limited accessibility to the ________ of participating companies.

Extranets; intranets

What type of home ISP connection is typically the fastest

Fiber

Which type of media is least likely to be affected by electronic noise? 1) CAT-3 cable 2) CAT-5 cable 3) Coaxial Cable 4) Fiber optic cable

Fiber Optic Cable

Which of the following types of wire media has the highest physical security?

Fiber-optic cable

[WEBSITE USE] What tool is commonly used to track how, when and from what location users are using website?

Google Analytics

[MEASUREMENT] Which of the following terms is used to measures the frequency of analog signals?

Hertz

Which of the following would not be considered a perceived affordance from the perspective of the user?

Hidden Affordance

How does this wall safe provide a safe hiding spot?

Hidden Affordance AND False Affordance

The ________ layer of TCP/IP is responsible for addressing, routing, and packaging data packets.

Internet

The ________________ is a network of networks.

Internet

From lowest to highest, what is the correct order of these satellite types with respect to the altitude of their orbit (LEO, MEO, GEO)?

Irridum, GPS, DishTV

Ethernet is a technology associated with ________s.

LAN

Wi-Fi is a ______________.

LAN

In general, what do you think of as the quality of your network connection speed when you are using your PC, iPad, or Smartphone is MOST influenced by which of the following:

Local tier-3 ISP's

How a system works from a user's point of view is known as what type of model?

Mental model

If you have one wireless access point, for best coverage you should do what?

Mount it in the center of the house

What is the name for the exchange points for Internet traffic used by major ISPs?

NAP

Which of the following is the technology that enables most mobile wallet applications?

NFC

________s allow devices to physically connect to the LAN's communication's medium

NIC

What is the name of the wireless technology that is designed to be embedded in mobile devices such as cell phones and credit cards allowing you to pay for items by waving your card within a few centimeters of a point-of-sale terminal?

Near-field Communication

What is the name of the device that of the physical device that interfaces computers with a local area network (LAN)?

Network Interface Card (NIC)

What is the correct order of switching sites for packet "P5" in the following routing diagram?

New York, Dallas, Los Angeles

________________ enables secure communication over the Internet using VPNs.

None of these options (internet, intranet, extranet)

Which type of website file contains software that's executed by the browser on the user's computer?

PHP

Which of the POUR principles focuses on the concept that web accessibility is based upon the assumption that people need to be able to input the information into their brain so that they can process it?

Perceivable

What is an affordance?

Physical property of an object that shows functionality

What is the correct "port" to use for your secure shell connection when transferring files to the U.Arizona.edu web server?

Port 22

In the assigned reading on accessibility, the authors note that while WCAG 1.0 focused on the techniques for accomplishing accessibility, WCAG 2.0 focused on what?

Principles of accessibilities

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) addresses all of the following issues related to the transmission of data using packets, EXCEPT

Privacy for the user's message content

Industry analytsts expect that 5th generation networks will be defined by three characterisitcs over 4th generation cellular networks. Which of the following would is not one of the expected changes?

Reduced signal attenuation

The following "img" directive uses what type of addressing? <img src="NistFigure2.PNG" width="2612" height="1746" alt="Security"/>

Relative

If your internet speed seems slow, before calling your ISP and complaining the very first thing you should do is

Run a speedtest against the ISP's speed test site

What type of hack occurs when a web form allows a database command to be entered that results in the database's information being compromised?

SQL Injection

Although web users should have an unlimited amount of time to complete tasks on the web, this design goal must be balanced against what other issue?

Security and risk

According to IT's About Business 9.3, ________ is writing repurposed for a mobile society in which readers' attention is fleeting.

Serialized fiction

[LAWS] Bandwidth is the transmission capacity of a network, stated in bits per second. Which of the following "laws" we've discussed determines the maximum bandwidth (signallin rate) of a given type of communication media (e.g., copper cable, fiber optic, etc.)?

Shannon's Law

Which of the following is used to conduct market research?

Social intelligence

Which of the following multiplexing approaches INCREASES the total bandwidth available to users?

Space division multiplexing

In the video case about Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Vint Cerf described TCP using an analogy of the sending postcard through the US postal system. Which of the following was not an issue discussed in the case study?

The cost of sending the packets making up a message

From Don Norman's perspective, what fatal flaw does the BMW iDrive (which he described as a well thought out, very logical, and sensible device) have with respect its human interface?

The iDrive destroyed spatiality

In the assigned reading, Don Norman noted two critical issues with the original BMW iDrive design: the design failed to provide a good conceptual model (a story) and also what other problem?

The iDrive destroyed spatiality

Which of these is not an advantage of an all-in-one router, switch, WiFi access point, and Modem

They are cheap to upgrade

[WWW} What British Scientist invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in 1989?

Tim Berners-Lee

Which of these is NOT enumerated as a Motivation to Create Accessible Web Content?

To improve the reliability of technical functionality (technology centered motivations)

What is the name of the criterion of intelligence where depends on the ability of a computer program to impersonate a human in a real-time written conversation with a human judge, sufficiently well that the judge is unable to distinguish reliably—on the basis of the conversational content alone—between the program and a real human?

Turing Test

Select the answer below that orders the media correctly from the lowest to highest bandwith (data rates).

Twisted pair, Coaxial Cable, Fiber-optic Cable

Which of the following would not currently be considered a top-level domain by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)?

Uniform Resource Top-Level Domain (urTLD)

What type of content on the web is growing fastest?

Videos

__________________ refer(s) to word-of-mouth advertising.

Viral marketing

The Internet is a ______________.

WAN

Select the answer the correctly orders the types of computer networks in terms of area span of coverage from largest to smallest?

WAN, MAN, LAN, PAN

The four guiding principles of accessibility (perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust) are included in what document?

Web Content Accessibility Guide, Version 2.0

With respect to maximum operating range, what is the correct order of the following technologies from longest to shortest?

Wifi, bluetooth, rfid, nfc

Where can I host my ABP-3A and ABP-3B websites? a) Only on the U.Arizona.edu web server b)On any internet web server (e.g., iCloud or GoDaddy) c) On the submission link for the assignment on D2L d) On Arizona.box.com, which also is a backup for your website

a) Only on the U.Arizona.edu web server

Many experts believe ________ is the solution to the challenge of making money from social networking sites and social commerce sites.

advertising

What part of an "IMG" (image) HTML tag meets the POUR principle of being "perceivable"?

alt = "My House"

The human voice is a (an):

analog signal

Using excel's data validation rules is an example of what type of error prevention?

avoidance

[PERMISSIONS] If you go to your web page and it says "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /~<yourNetId>/ on this server", you most likely, you will need to change the permissions on your public_html directory or index.html file to which of the following? a)"rwxr--r--" b)"rw-rw-rw-" c)"rwxr-xr-x" d)"-wx-wx-wx"

c) "rwxr-xr-x"

How many points are ABP-3A and ABP-3B worth respectively? a) ABP-3A is worth 50 points and ABP-3B is worth 50 points b) ABP-3A is worth 5 points and ABP-3B is worth 95 points c) ABP-3A is worth 4 points of extra credit and ABP-3B is worth 100 points d) ABP-3A is worth 10 points and ABP-3B is worth 90 points

d) ABP-3A is worth 10 points and ABP-3B is worth 90 points

What is the correct filename for your ABP-3A website? a) Index.html b) index.www c) INDEX.HTML d) index.html

d) index.html

What is the name of the directory where the files for your websites for ABP-3A and ABP-3B will be stored on the U.Arizona.Edu web server? a) index_html b) www_html c) public.html d) public_html

d) public_html

What affordance issue is the label "PUSH" addressing?

false affordance

The Internet backbone is a ________ network.

fiber-optic

Most users of these salt-and-pepper shakers would most likely depend on information from what level of the McGinn hierarchy?

human sensory perception

As I move farther away from campus and my connection to UAWifi gets weaker, What will cause this to occur?

ignal strength has limited power

Similiar to the expansion of telecommunications in the 1800's with the telegraph, what transportation infrastructure was discussed in class that guided the decision the placement of the long-haul fiber-optic cable infrastructure?

inter-continental Railroads Network

What problem might occur when you operate WiFi networks and bluetooth headsets using the same 2.4GHz ISM frequency range in close proximity to each other?

interference

The web __________ the same thing as the internet.

is not

Which of the following wireless issues would NOT be a problem for short range wireless applications such as RFID and NFC?

line-of-sight

The HCI goals of effectiveness, efficiency, and usability all relate to what type of feasibility?

operational

If everything stops working and connecting to the internet, and you have no idea what to do, the first thing you should try is?

powering the modem and router off then on again

A disadvantage of a microwave transmission system is ____________.

susceptible to environmental interference

<img alt="My House" height="200" src="http://www.cnn.com/My%20House.JPG" width="141" />What string within this "IMG" tag makes this absolute addressing for the image?

www.cnn.com