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PREASSESSMENT 120-2
(An Opportunity to Detect and Correct Your Handicaps)
      Assessment 2 in COSC 120 will cover Learning Modules III and IV and Labs 4-7.   The assessment will be derived directly from the following preassessment questions.  I will take 10 questions directly from the preassessment questions or proficiency evaluation questions and place them as questions 41 - 50 on Assessment 2.   Then I will rewrite questions 1 - 40; I may change some answers, but the correct answer to the question will remain, e.g. the correct answer to question 1 on Assessment 1 will be one of the four you see below.  So, you have the answers; you just don't know the questions. (However, DO NOT assume that this will be "easy"; it will be a challenging learning exercise!)  In order to prepare for the Assessment, do the following (as we cover the relevant material....NOT the night before it is due!) and submit the Scantron with your answers on the date specified in the Class Schedule .   Don't turn in your PREASSESSMENT questions; keep them to study.)
  1. Answer the following questions on the Scantron Answer Sheet provided. Mark the most appropriate answer to the multiple-choice questions. (There may be more than one "correct" answer to the question!)
  2. LEARNING EXERCISES USING MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: Play "CYBER JEOPARDY " with the three incorrect answers for each question, i.e. think up a question to which each is the correct answer. This way you should have sufficient questions that require you to "think" and thus prepare yourself for the coming test! (Besides, you will be doing exactly what I will be doing when I create Assessment 1!)
  3. Note that the following questions are more difficult than typical "test questions". This is by design because this is NOT A TEST;  it is an exercised designed TO PREPARE YOU FOR AN ASSESSMENT!   Because many of the multiple choice answers are (by design) similar to one another, selecting the correct answer requires that you know the DIFFERENCE between the four choices, i.e. IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW THE DEFINITIONS of the words; you must UNDERSTAND what they represent. You probably will not be able to answer all (or even most!) of the following questions without rereading the text and my notes. Don't feel bad; that is the purpose of a "PREassessment! It is designed to help you GO BEYOND KNOWLEDGE to UNDERSTANDING!
  4. TPQ: Eliminate the "best answer" and see if other answers apply.
      FROM LEARNING MODULE III, INTERNET RESOURCES and ASSOCIATED HANDOUTS/ARTICLES
  1. The URL of a _________ begins with http: a) HTML document b) web page c) home page d)  d) Web Service  e) Weblog
  2. Which of the following contain graphics? a) hypermedia b) hypertext c) plug-in  d) helper applications
  3. Which of the following is a link to a location within the same document?  a) hyperlink  b) target link  c) absolute link  c) relative link
  4. The first multimedia browser was: a) Mosaic  b) Netscape Navigator  c) Netscape Communicator  d) Internet Explorer
  5. The name of a computer that relates text-based Internet addresses with numeric IP addresses is: a) URL b) URL type c) DNS d) MIME
  6. The white house has the top level domain: a) .org  b) .net  c) .gov  d) .edu
  7. Web sites of the U. S. Army would end in: a) .com  b) .nom  c) .uk  d) .mil
  8. In a URL the words between slashes, "/", specify the: a) domain name b) file directory c) file name d) bookmark
  9. Which URL type accesses a secure newsgroup server? a) http:// b) file:/// c )news: d) snews:
  10. In a URL which URL type is not followed by slashes? a) https b) ftp c) telnet d) mailto
  11. When one enters a URL in a browser, the domain name server, at FSU, that converts this to an IP address is: a) freris.fsu.umd.edu b) goliath.frostburg.edu  c) www.frostburg.edu  d) faculty.frostburg.edu  d) student.frostburg.edu
  12. Which of these is a search tool for one of the others? a) gopher  b) veronica  c) archie  d) WAIS
  13. ________ is an PC application.  a) netiquette   b) list server  c) WS_FTP  d) anonymous FTP
  14. An example of a communications service is: a) e-mail  b) mailing lists  c) newsgroups  d) forums  e) all of these
  15. An interactive form of e-mail is:  a) chat  b) teleconferencing  c) FAQ  d) ICQ  e) NetMeeting


FROM LEARNING MODULE IV

  1. Which of the following is a standards organization that sponsors a model of telecommunications?  a) OSI  b) ISO  c) ANSI  d) ASCII
  2. WS_FTP is a: a) protocol b) service c) application d) all of these
  3. A specific collection of Internet protocols is: a) TCP b) IP c) TCP/IP d) UDP
  4. Which of the following is a type of Internet address?  a) URL  b) IP address  c) MAC address d) all of these
  5. Which of the following is an OSI protocol? a) ARP b) SNMP c) SMTP d) none of these
  6. A protocol that governs the transmission of error information regarding IP packet transmissions is: a) FTP b) ICMP c) IGP d) none of these
  7. Which protocol is not used as the URL type? a) SMTP b) HTTP c) Telnet d) all of these
  8. Which of the following is the least sophisticated? a) gateway. b) repeater c) router. d) bridge.
  9. Telnet provides the functionality of which OSI Model layer? a) application b) presentation c) session d) all of these
  10. With which OSI model layer would an Ethernet card be associated? a) transport b) network c) data link d) physical
  11. A program that waits in the background on a server in order to respond to requests of the server is called a: a) daemon b) socket c) packet d) frame
  12. Which of the following is part of an Ethernet frame? a) segment b) header c) datagram d) all of these
  13. The collection of TCP/IP applications on a computer is referred to as: a) streaming technology  b) a stack c) PPP d) SLIP
  14. Which of these is not represented by a level in the OSI model? a) Ethernet b) NetMeeting c) token ring d) physical transmission medium
FROM LABS 4-7
  1. Which of these contains all the others?  a) Navigator  b) Netscape  c) Instant Messenger  d) Composer
  2. (Lab 4)The tag that specifies the name of the window in which an HTML document will appear is: a) <head> b) </body> c) <html> d) <title>
  3. (Lab 4)Which of the following HTML tags changes the text layout (i.e. page format; NOT style nor font) of an HTML document. a) <p> b) <a> c) <b> d) <h1>
  4. (Lab 4) When using Netscape Communicator, one can create a basic HTML document by following a perscribed set of instructions using: a) a template b) a wizard c) Navigator Window  d) clip art
  5. (Lab 4)A file type found on Web sites is: a) gif  b) jpeg  c) htm  d) all of these
  6. (Lab 4)Which of the following tags will display, in an HTML Document, a graphic that is in a different folder? a) <a href=index.html#1> b) <img src="/pics/file.jpeg"> c) <a href="http://www.cnet.com"> d) all of these
  7. (Lab 5)Which of the following is not a Web page? a) project.htm  b) index.html  c) index.html d) public_html
  8. (lab 6) Which of these is an FTP site?  a) download.com  b) shareware.com  c) CNET  d) none of these
  9. (Lab 7) Which of the following is not truly a "search engine"? a) Google b) AltaVista c) Yahoo d) Hotbot
  10. (Lab 7) A Web dictionary of computing terms is: a) All the Web  b) demoz  c) Wikipedia d) FOLDOC
  11. (Lab 7) Services that allow users to "look up" e-mail address are called: a) White pages b) newsgroups c) Meta Search d) all of these