PREASSESSMENT 330-1
    (An OPPORTUNITY to detect and correct things you don't understand!)
     Assessment 1 in COSC 330 will cover Learning Modules I and II.  The assessment will be derived directly from the following preassessment questions.  I will take 10 questions directly from the preassessment and/or proficiency evaluation questions and place them as questions 41 - 50 on Assessment 1.   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 or five  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 "WEB 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 a diagnostic tool 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.
LM I
  1. In order to have full interactive communications, between computers, of text, graphics, video, and audio the data representing these must all be: a) digital b) analog c) bits d) bytes
  2. Which of the following is an essential feature of one of the others?  a) application software  b) system software c) network  d) distributed computer system
  3. An internet connection via a ________ does not have a permanent IP address. a ) channel  b) modem  c) codec   d) backbone
  4. Which of the following is the least sophisticated? a) gateway. b) repeater c) router. d) bridge.
  5. Which of the following is a measure of one of the others?  a) bandwidth  b) bps  c)  broadband  d) narrow band  e) DNS
  6. One uses __________ software to access a program made available on a network. a) service b) client c) server d) client-server
  7. Which is the most different from the others? a) LAN b) MAN c) VAN d) WAN
  8. The POTS  is an example of: a) circuit switching b) message switching c) packet switching d) all of these
  9. Which of the following is most unlike the others? a) internet  b) Internet   c) intranet  d) extranet
  10. Which of the following necessarily involves multimedia?  a) e-mail  b) newsgroups  c) mailing lists  d) chat  e) teleconferencing
  11. The service governed by HTTP is:  a) file transfer  b) remote logon  c) information retrieval  d) downloading  e) uploading
  12. An example of a chat program is:  a) NAP  b) MAE  c) WAP  d) ICQ  e) ICMP
  13. A specific collection of Internet protocols is: a) TCP b) IP c) TCP/IP d) FTP  e) PPP
  14. Which of these is not a protocol? a) UDP b) ISP c) POP d) SNMP  e) SMTP
  15. Web pages are "programmed" using: a) URL b) HTTP  c) VRML  d) HTML  e) SLIP
  16. WS_FTP is: a) a protocol b) a service c) an application d) plug-in  e) helper applications
  17. Which of the following must be converted to one of the others before a HTML document is published as a Web page?  a) hyperlink  b) target link  c) absolute link  d) relative link
  18. In a URL which URL type is not followed by slashes? a) http  b) file  c) ftp  d) mailto
  19. In a URL the words between slashes, "/", specify the: a) domain name b) file directory c) file name  d) file extension  e) bookmark
  20. The white house has the top level domain: a) .org  b) .com  c) .gov  d) .edu  e) .uk
  21. Which of the following is not a subdivision of data transmitted over a network?  a) segment b) socket c) datagram  d) packet e) frame
  22. Which of the following includes the others? a) hypermedia b) hyperlink c) multimedia d) hypertext  e) streaming
  23. An HTML program is made up of: a) text b) links c) tags  d) scripts e) all of these
  24. A technology that is used to incorporate database access into Web pages is: a) Cold Fusion  b) Shockwave  c) Flash  d) Perl
  25. Which of the following is a protocol? a) CGI  b) IAB C) XML  d) SGML  e) IRC
  26. Which of the following is not a "markup" language? a) XHTML b) VRML c) DHTML d) SMIL
  27. Which of the following is not a scripting language?  a) REBOL b) Python  c)Tcl  d) Tk
  28. An example of a high-level language is: a) JavaScript  b) Java c) Visual Basic d) VBScript  e) HTML
  29. Which of the following is an example of one of the others? a) MIME b) MIDI c) ASCII d) ARP  e) ASP
  30. Which of the following is a truly platform independent program? a) .htm b) .bin c) .exe d) .doc  e) .gif
  31. What extension is used on compressed files? a) .jpeg b) .mpeg c).txt d) .zip  e) .wav

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    LM I and II


  32. The creater of HTTP is: (a) Berners-Lee  (b) Black  (c) White  (d) Niederst  (e) Andreeson
  33. Computer monitor resolution is measured in:  (a) org  (b) validation  (c) pixel  (d) hexadecimal
  34. The characteristic of Web design that differs the most in print design is that the designer does not control the __________ of a page. (a) content   (b) appearance  (c) color  (d) text
  35. According to Roger Black which of the following should be used in Web design?  (a) confusion  (b)  repurposing  (c) black and white  (d) scrolling pages
  36. Which of the following is defined in terms of one of the other answers?  (a) Web Palette  (b) Web safe  (c) color cubes  (d) resolution
  37. An acronym for a guideline of Web site development is: (a) WAI  (b) W3C  (c) RGB  (d) HSB  (e) KISS
  38. Which of the following is not a graphic image type?  (a) JPEG  (b) GIF  (c) PNG (d) BNT
  39. A word that specifies an kind of text font is: (a) gamma (b) anti-aliased  (c) proportional  (d) ppi  (e) About.com
  40. Instead of an operating system, ________ can be used to manipulate files on a Web server.  (a) Unix  (b) server  (c) Telnet  (d) FTP  (e) MIME

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