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PROFICIENCY EVALUATION 120-3
(STATIC, HTML VERSION, PROVIDED FOR CLONING)
A "PUBLIC", SELF CHECKING EVALUATION 3
(An OPPORTUNITY to detect and correct IMPORTANT things you don't understand!)
 If you have not already done so, be sure to read the explanation of the purpose of proficiency evaluations.   The following is the first draft of Proficiency Evaluation 120-3, the best Assessment 3 that I can write, i.e. it has the best and most important questions I can think of on LMs V and VI and Labs 8-9 and the Project.  (Like the gradable Assessment 3,  this evaluation is derived directly from PreAssessment 3 following the "rules" specified at the beginning of the PreAssessment.)  I place this in the "public domain", so that everyone can not only evaluate their current learning but can also detect misunderstandings of important concepts and subsequently correct them.  If you are not taking the course for credit, this evaluation can serve as a "test" of your learning that you can grade and correct yourself.  If you are taking the course for credit, this evaluation along with PreAssessment 3, should prepare you for Assessment 3, which will contribute to your grade for the course.

To consider yourself proficient in knowledge and understanding of concepts covered in these LMs, you should be able to answer all of the following questions.  This HTML version is provided so that you can clone it; to check yourself, take the online version.   Remember, it is also important to realize that knowing (and understanding) the answers to these few question may be enough suggest  "proficiency", but it is not enough for "mastery"; for mastery you should understand all the concepts covered on this Proficiency Evaluation as well as the associated PreAssessment 3.   On both you should (1) understand the other possible question answers (that are not the correct answer to the particular question) as well as (2) recognize those answers which are "nonsense answers", i.e. that have nothing to do with the course subject matter.

LEARNING MODULE V (FILE TYPES AND MULTIMEDIA)

  1. All computer software and data are stored in:  a) secondary storage b) primary memory  c) files  d) programs
  2. The essential feature of the World Wide Web is its ability to allow users to access information in the form of: a) hypermedia b) hyperlinks c) resource access d) multicast access
  3. Software developers use computer languages to generate:   a) source code  b) object code  c) machine language  d) all of these
  4. The essential components of HTML documents (that distinguishes them from other kinds of documents) are: a) text  b) multimedia  c) scripts  d) none of these
  5. HTML documents are essentially _______ files. a) text b) multimedia c) hypermedia d) machine code
  6. A facility essential to teleconferencing is: a) file sharing b) streaming video c) streaming audio d) all of these
  7. The category of files that may be transmitted via SMTP applications is:  a) MIME b) MIDI  c) HTTP d) SMF
  8. Text files are normally encoded using:  a) TXT  b) EBCDIC c) ASCII  d) ANSI
  9. Which of the following designate program files?  a) .htm b) .bin c) .exe  a) all of these
  10. Which type of file can contain a virus?  a) .htm  b) .gif  c) .exe  d) none of these
  11. The file type most suitable for storing digitized photographs is:  a) .dpeg b) mpeg c) .ppeg  d) none of these
  12. The file type used for video on the Internet is: a) .mvid  b) .mpeg  c) .vpeg  d) .mp3
  13. Animated graphics have the _______ file extension.  a) .au  b) .agf   c) .wav  d) .gif
  14. Sampling is the technique of converting analog files into _______ files.  a) audio  b) video  c) digital  d) binary
  15. .gif, .jpeg, .mpeg are all _________ files. a) bitmap b) vector c) pixel d) hypermedia
  16. A proprietary multimedia technology used on the Internet is:  a) Real Player b) QuickTime c) Shockwave  d) all of these
LEARNING MODULE VI (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES)
  1. Which of the following types of programs are essentially translators?  a) scripts  b) computer languages c) application programs d) none of these
  2. A term roughly equivalent to machine language code is: a) source code b) object code c) script code d) all of these
  3. Scripting are best described, collectively as ______________________ languages. a) low level  b) high-level  c) very high level d) none of these
  4. The most commonly used language to write scripts that reside on Web servers is:  a) CGI  b) Perl  c) JavaScript  d) VBScript
  5. The most general, flexible markup language used today is:  a) HTML  b) XHTML c) XML  d) VRML
  6. Which of the following is not a computer language? a) HTML b) DHTML c) VBScript  d) Perl
  7. A DHTML feature that allows developers to control how HTML elements in collections of pages are uniformly displayed is:  a) style sheets  b) scripts  c) dynamic fonts  d) layering
  8. Program code that can be embedded within HTML documents are called:  a) applets  b) applications  c) scripts  d) functions
  9. The difference between JavaScript and languages like Java, C++ is that it is not _________ programming language.   a) scripting  b) an object oriented c) object based  d) Web
  10. The most fundamental OOPL construct used in writing object oriented software is the:  a) object  b) function  c) method  d) none of these
  11. Operations that are specifically associated with a particular class or object are called:  a) functions  b) methods  c) procedures  d) programs
  12. The internet could be described as a _____________ computer system.  a) LAN b) MAN c) distributed d) integrated
  13. A computer language used to write code that can be embedded withing an HTML document is:  a) JavaScript  b) Java  c) Visual Basic  d) all of these
  14. Java programs that are downloaded from Web servers to be executed on the user's computer are called: a) applets b) applications c) bytecode d) source code
FROM THE LABS 8 AND 9
  1. Public forums on the Internet are called:  a) newsgroups b) mailing lists  c) bulletin boards d) bulletin forums
  2. The first part of a URL that is an automatic e-mail link is: a) mail: b) mailto: c) email://  d) emailto://
  3. The largest collection of public forums is: a) Deja News  b) Usenet c) BBS d) none of these
  4. Web pages that contain the answers to basic questions about the site are called ______ pages.  a) INFO b) INI c) FAQ  d) ICQ
  5. The Internet service that provides asynchronous mass communications is:  a) mailing lists b) newsgroups c) teleconferencing d) chat
  6. The essential feature of a mailing list is the mail: a) exploder  b) deflector  c) search engine  d) none of these
  7. A _________ identifies one or more IP addresses.  a) domain name  b) mainling list  c) TCP/IP  d) ISP
  8. The Web sites of of businesses end in: a) www  b) org  c) gov  d) none of these
  9. The most highly regarded general purpose search engine is: a) Yahoo b)  b) Excite c) Google d) Deja News
  10. Home pages of modern Web sites have the file name: a) home.htm  b) home.html  c) index.htm  d) index.html
FROM PREASSESSMENT
  1. An HTML program is made up of: a) text b) links c) tags d) all of these
  2. Which of the following is truly platform independent? a) .htm b) .bin c) .exe a) .doc
  3. What extension is used on compressed files? a) .jpeg b) .mpeg c).txt d) .zip
  4. Professional software developers primarily use _____________ languages to develop applications a) low level  b) high-level  c) very high level d) all of these
  5. _________ may be embedded directly within markup language code. a) style sheets  b) scripts  c) dynamic fonts  d) layering
  6. An HTML hyperlink can be linked to a location: a) in the same document b) in a different document c) on a different server d) all of these
  7. news.umd.edu is a: a) newsgroup b) news reader  c) news server  d) none of these
  8. Which of the following is a means of searching one of the others? a) Deja News b) Usenet c) Messenger d) none of these
  9. Which of the following is a domain name of the World Wide Web? a) com  b) org  c) gov  d) all are
  10. Which of the following is NOT a general purpose search tool a) HotBot b)  b) Excite c) Deja News d) Google  e) Northern Lights