TB 04

Rainer, Information System, Third Canadian Edition Testbank
Chapter 4
Networks
Question Type: True-False
1) The Internet is a wide area network.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: Define the term computer network, and compare and contrast the two major types
of networks.
Section Reference: 4.1 What Is a Computer Network?
Difficulty: Easy
2) Voice and data communications are becoming faster but slightly more expensive.
Answer: False
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
3) A local area network connects two or more communicating devices in a limited geographical area.
Answer: True
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
4) LANs typically contain multiple WANs.
Answer: False
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
5) Network interface cards are special adapters that link an individual device to the communications
medium on a local area network.
Answer: True
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
6) The network interface card typically houses the LAN’s network operating system.
Answer: False
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
7) Wide-area networks have a large capacity, and they typically use a single communications channel.
Answer: False
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
8) Digital signals are discrete pulses that are either on or off.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: Describe the differences among the three types of wireline communications media,
and discuss the main advantages and disadvantages of each type.
Section Reference: 4.2 Network Fundamentals
Difficulty: Easy
9) Digital signals are continuous waves that transmit information by altering the characteristics of the
waves.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
10) Peer-to-peer processing means each computer acts as both a client and a server.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
11) Digital signals have two parameters: frequency and amplitude.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
12) The U.S. public telephone system was designed as an analog network to carry voice signals.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
13) Ethernet is a common LAN protocol.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
14) Cable media use wires or cables to transmit data and information.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
15) Twisted-pair wire is the least-used form of communications wiring.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
16) Cladding is the coating that surrounds fiber-optic cables and prevents light from leaking out of the
fiber.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
17) Systems that use digital subscriber lines (DSL) do not require modems.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
18) Currently, ATM networks operate only on fiber-optic cable.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
19) IPv6 allows devices to more quickly connect to the Internet than IPv4.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: Differentiate between the Internet and the World Wide Web, and describe the most
common methods for accessing the Internet.
Section Reference: 4.3 The Internet and the World Wide Web
Difficulty: Medium
20) The World Wide Web is synonymous with the Internet.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
21) The Internet is a global network of computer networks.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
22) An intranet is a network that uses Internet technologies and is designed to serve the information
needs of a single organization.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
23) Intranets support discovery, communication, and collaboration inside an organization.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
24) An extranet is a network that uses Internet technologies and is designed to serve the information
needs of a single organization.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
25) Extranets offer limited accessibility to the intranets of participating companies.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
26) An Internet service provider is a company that offers Internet connections for a fee.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
27) Internet kiosks are computer terminals located in public places like libraries and airports.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
28) A domain name is the official name assigned to an Internet site, consisting of multiple parts,
separated by dots, which are translated from right to left in locating the site.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
29) The rightmost part of an Internet name is the top-level specification, or the zone.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
30) The World Wide Web is a system with universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving,
formatting, and displaying information via a client/server architecture.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
31) Uniform resource locators (URLs) point to the address of a specific resource or site on the Web.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
32) Uniform resource locators (URLs) are software applications through which users access the Web.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
33) The hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) is the communications standard used to transfer pages
across the World Wide Web portion of the Internet.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
34) A major problem of the discovery applications of networks is the huge amount of information
available.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: Identify six major categories of network applications, provide an example of each
one, and explain how that application supports business functions.
Section Reference: 4.4 Internet Network Applications
Difficulty: Easy
35) VoIP converts analog signals to digital ones.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
36) Metasearch engines search several engines at once and integrate the findings of the various search
engines.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
37) The quality of automatic translation of Web pages is usually just as good as human translation.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
38) Commercial portals are intended for broad audiences and offer fairly routine content.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
39) Crowdsourcing refers to outsourcing a task to an undefined, generally large group of people in the
form of an open call.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
40) Industry-wide portals are intended for broad audiences and offer fairly routine content.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
41) Electronic mail is the largest-volume application running over the Internet.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
42) With Voice-over-IP, every call opens up a dedicated circuit for the duration of the call.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
43) E-learning is conducted only in virtual classrooms, where all coursework is completed online.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
44) Virtual universities are online universities from which students take classes from home or at an off-
site location, via the Internet.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
45) Employees who telecommute have generally found that the experience enhances their careers.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
46) Qwiki produces a real-time search result in multimedia form.
Answer: True
Section: IT’s About Business: Informative Videos on the Fly
Difficulty: Easy
Question Type: Multiple Choice
47) Which of the following is NOT a reason networks are essential?
a) They offer a company flexibility.

b) They allow companies to share resources.
c) Computers typically work in isolation.
d) Employees are geographically dispersed.
Answer: c
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
48) _____ refers to the range of frequencies available in any communications channel.
a) Protocol
b) Broadband
c) Capacity
d) Narrowband
e) Bandwidth
Answer: e
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
49) ______________ refers to the transmission capacity of a network.
a) Bandwidth
b) Bandlength
c) Broadband
d) Narrowband
Answer: a
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
50) Which of the following are advantages of computer networks?
a) They enable organizations to be more flexible.

b) They enable companies to share hardware, computer applications, and data.
c) They enable geographically dispersed employees to work together.
d) They provide a critical link between businesses and their customers.
e) All of these
Answer: e
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
51) Every device in the ________ has a NIC that allows the device to physically connect to the network’s
communication medium.
a) LAN
b) MAN
c) PAN
d) WAN
Answer: a
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
52) The components of a local area network include which of the following?
a) File server
b) Client computers
c) Wireline or wireless communications media
d) Network interface cards
e) All of these
Answer: e
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
53) Which of the following is not a component of a local area network?
a) File server
b) Client computers
c) Bridge
d) Network interface cards
e) All of these
Answer: c
of networks.
Difficulty: Medium
54) From largest to smallest, what is the correct order for the types of networks?
a) WAN, MAN, PAN, LAN

b) MAN, WAN, LAN, PAN
c) WAN, MAN, LAN, PAN
d) MAN, WAN, PAN, LAN
Answer: c
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
55) A _____ connects dissimilar networks.
a) Router
b) Network interface card
c) Bridge
d) Gateway
e) File server
Answer: d
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
56) A(n) _____ connects two or more devices in a limited geographical area.
a) Local area network

b) Wide-area network
c) Personal area network
d) Enterprise network
e) Value added network
Answer: a
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
57) _____________ usually spans a city.
a) LAN
b) MAN
c) PAN
d) WAN
Answer: b
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
58) A _____ sends messages through several connected LANs or to a wide-area network.
a) Router
c) Bridge
d) Gateway
e) File server
Answer: a
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
59) A _____ allows a device to physically connect to a local area network’s communications medium.
a) File server
c) Network operating system
d) Communications channel
e) Gateway
Answer: b
of networks.
Difficulty: Easy
60) All of the following statements concerning wide-area networks are true except:
a) They are provided by individual companies.

b) They have large capacity.
c) They cover large geographical areas.
d) They combine multiple communications channels.
e) The Internet is an example of a wide-area network.
Answer: a
of networks.
Difficulty: Medium
61) Gal runs a music store. He has a desktop computer in the back room that acts as a server. He has a
point-of-sale terminal that connects to the desktop. He also has a notebook (using in-store wireless
access to the Internet) that can be carried around the store to look up current items in stock, or to
search for items from one of his suppliers for special orders. Which type of network does Gal have?
a) Client-server
b) Mainframe-based
c) LAN
d) WAN
e) Peer-to-peer
Answer: c
of networks.
Difficulty: Medium
62) Some modems convert ________ to __________, which is called __________.
a) analog, digital, modulation

b) digital, analog, demodulation
c) analog, numbers, demodulation
d) digital, analog, modulation
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
63) The function of _____ is to convert digital signals to analog signals and vice-versa.
a) Modems
b) Multiplexers
c) Front-end processors
d) Servers
e) Clients
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
64) __________ operates on the same lines as telephones, and the Internet is always available.
a) Cable
b) Dial-up
c) DSL
d) Satellite
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
65) _____ signals convey information in wave form, whereas _____ signals convey information in binary
form.
a) Analog, packet
b) Analog, digital
c) Digital, packet
d) Digital, analog
e) Packet, analog
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
66) __________ is the most prevalent form of communications wiring.
a) Coaxial cable
b) Fiber-optic cables
c) Twisted-pair wire
Wireless
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
67) _____ are hardware devices that support data transmission and reception across a
telecommunications system.
a) Integrated services digital networks

b) Digital subscriber lines
c) Communications channels
d) Integrated circuits
e) Communications processors
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
68) Which of the following is not a communications channel?
a) Fiber-optic cable
b) Satellite transmission
c) Twisted-pair wire
d) Integrated circuits
e) Cellular radio
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
69) Which of the following is a disadvantage of twisted-pair wire?
a) Availability
b) Cost
c) Flexibility
d) Speed
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
70) Which of the following is not a characteristic of twisted-pair wire?
a) Inexpensive
b) Easy to work with
c) Subject to interference from other electrical sources
d) Secure transmissions
e) None of these
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
71) Which of the following is an advantage of coaxial cable?
a) Cost
b) Flexibility
c) Security
d) All of the above are advantages
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
72) The cable medium with the highest bandwidth is:
a) Twisted-pair wire
b) Coaxial cable
c) Fiber-optic cable
d) Cellular radio
e) Copper cable
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
73) Data are sent through a fiber-optic cable by a(n) _______.
a) Optical switch
b) Electromagnetic switch
c) Laser
d) Multiplexer
e) Optical modem
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
74) _____________ is a data transmission technology that uses packet switching and allows for almost
unlimited bandwidth on demand.
a) Asynchronous Transfer Mode

b) Digital Subscriber Line
c) Synchronous Optical Network
d) T-Carrier System
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
75) Which data transmission technology requires fiber-optic cable, can transmit up to 2.5 gigabits per
second, and is more expensive than DSL?
a) Digital subscriber line

b) Asynchronous transfer mode
c) Synchronous optical network
d) T-carrier system
e) ISDN
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
76) Which transmission technology is an interface standard for transporting digital signals over fiber-
optic lines that enables the integration of transmissions from multiple vendors?

d) T-carrier system
e) ISDN
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
77) The _______________ layer of TCP/IP provides the addressing, routing, and packaging of data
packets.
a) Application
b) Internet
c) Network interface
d) Transport
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
78) Which of the following is a digital transmission system that defines circuits that operate at different
rates, all of which are multiples of the basic 64 Kbps used to transport a single voice call?

d) T-carrier system
e) ISDN
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
79) In order to ensure that computers developed by different manufacturers can communicate, _____
have been developed.
a) Protocols
b) Client/server architectures
c) WANs
d) Application software packages
e) Developmental architectures
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
80) A protocol is:
a) A device that handles the switching of voice and data in a local area network.
b) A standard set of rules and procedures for the control of communications in a network.
c) A communications service for the connection of devices in a local area network.
d) The main communications channel in a wide-area network.
e) Synonymous with network interface card.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
81) The __________ type of peer-to-peer processing is real-time, person-to-person collaboration.
a) first
b) second
c) third
d) fourth
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
82) The part of a network that handles the major traffic is the ________.
a) Front end
b) Network interface
c) Multiplexer
d) Backbone
e) Front end processor
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
83) Which of the following enables users to send data across sometimes unreliable networks?
a) Ethernet
b) TCP/IP
c) Protocols
d) Digital subscriber lines
e) Integrated services digital network
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
84) In TCP/IP, IP is responsible for:
a) Disassembling and reassembling of packets during transmission.

b) Establishing the Internet connection between two computers.
c) Moving packets over the network.
d) Sequencing the transfer of packets across the network.
e) Error checking.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
85) Which of the following statements concerning packet switching is not true?
a) Packets contain a sequence number.

b) Packets are routed through different paths.
c) Packets require dedicated circuits.
d) Packets use TCP/IP to carry their data.
e) Packets contain destination addressing.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
86) A type of processing that links two or more computers in an arrangement in which some machines
provide computing services for user computers is best described as _______.
a) Open systems
b) Client/server
c) Peer-to-peer
d) Centralized
e) Mainframe-centric
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
87) BitTorrent uses a process called _____, which eliminates file-sharing bottlenecks by having everyone
share little pieces of a file at the same time.
a) Leeching
b) Collaboration
c) Packet switching
d) Torrents
e) Swarming
Answer: e
Difficulty: Medium
search for items from one of his suppliers for special orders. Which type of media does he likely use to
connect the point-of-sale terminal to the desktop?
a) Twisted-pair wire
b) Coaxial cable
c) Fiber-optic cable
d) Cellular radio
e) Copper cable
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
search for items from one of his suppliers for special orders. Which of the following statements is true?
a) Gal must have a Web site in order to use his notebook.

b) The notebook is on the same network as the point-of-sale terminal.
c) Gal must have an ISP in order to access the Internet from his notebook.
d) The notebook will work only when the desktop computer is turned on.
e) All of these are true
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
90) An ______________ is a restricted network within a company.
a) extranet
b) internet
c) intranet
d) insidenet
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
91) The _____ is a global wide-area network that connects approximately 1 million organizational
computer networks.
a) Ethernet
b) Extranet
c) Internet
d) Intranet
e) World Wide Web
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
92) A ______________ allows companies to establish a direct, secure, private network link to their
internal systems.
a) PAN
b) DSL
c) UPS
d) VPN
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
93) A(n) _____ is a network designed to serve the internal informational needs of a single organization.
a) Global network
b) Extranet
c) Internet
d) Intranet
e) World Wide Web
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
94) A ______________ offers limited accessibility inside the organization.
a) extranet
b) internet
c) intranet
d) insidenet
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
95) A(n) _____ connects parts of the intranets of different organizations and allows secure
communications among business partners.
a) Global network
b) Extranet
c) Internet
d) Intranet
e) World Wide Web
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
96) Internet service providers connect to one another through _____.
a) Internet connection points

b) Common carrier connection points
c) Network access points
d) Network connection points
e) An extranet
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
97) Domain names are read from __________ to __________.
a) bottom, top
b) top, bottom
c) left, right
d) right, left
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
98) _____ are Internet access points that are located in public places, such as libraries and airports.
a) Clients
b) Servers
c) Internet access computers
d) Network computer
e) Internet kiosks
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
99) Each site on the Internet gets an assigned address, which is a(n) _____.
a) TCP address
b) IP address
c) URL address
d) ISO/OSI identifier
e) World Wide Web address
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
100) What is NOT something browser companies focus on to gain competitive advantage.
a) Security
b) Download speeds
c) Add-ons
d) Cloud computing
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
101) Consider this domain name, www.business.gsu.edu. The “edu” is the _______.
a) Top-level domain
b) URL
c) Web site locator
d) Name of the computer
e) Address of the Webmaster
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
102) Consider this domain name, www.business.gsu.edu. The “gsu” is the __________.
a) Top-level domain
b) Name of the organization
c) URL
d) Name of the specific computer
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
103) Internet Explorer’s first browser battle was with ___________.
a) Apple Safari
b) Google Chrome
c) Mozilla Firefox
d) Netscape Navigator
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
104) Consider this domain name, www.business.gsu.edu. The “business” is the ________.
a) Top-level domain
b) Name of the organization
c) URL
d) Name of the specific computer
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
105) Applications offered by the Internet2 include which of the following?
a) remote diagnosis
b) digital libraries
c) distance education
d) virtual laboratories
e) all of these
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
106) A _____________ portal supports communities such as hobby groups or political parties.
a) affinity
b) commercial
c) corporate
d) industrywide
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
107) A ___________ portal is the most popular portal on the Internet.
a) affinity
b) commercial
c) corporate
d) industrywide
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
108) Networks enable which of the following applications?
a) Discovery
b) Communications
c) Collaboration
d) Web services
e) All of these
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
109) Which of the following are advantages of computer networks?
a) They enable organizations to be more flexible.

b) They enable companies to share hardware, computer applications, and data.
c) They enable geographically dispersed employees to work together.
d) They provide a critical link between businesses and their customers.
e) All of these
Answer: e
Difficulty: Medium
110) Which network application(s) enable(s) users to access information located in databases all over
the world?
a) Discovery
b) Communications
c) Collaboration
d) Web services
e) None of these
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
111) ___________ is(are) the largest-volume application running on the Internet.
a) E-mail
b) Chat rooms
c) FTP
d) The World Wide Web
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
112) Which of the following statements about publication of material in foreign languages is not
correct?
a) It is a competitive necessity.
b) It must be accurate.
c) It is expensive.
d) Content must be localized to the needs of people in local markets.
e) It is not yet a major consideration for most companies.
Answer: e
Learning Objective: 4.4 Identify six major categories of network applications, provide an example of each
Difficulty: Medium
113) ___________ is(are) the latest version of videoconferencing.
a) Real-time collaboration
b) Teleconferencing
c) Telepresence systems
d) Web conferencing
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
114) _____ portals offer content for diverse communities and are intended for broad audiences.
a) Industrywide
b) Personal
c) Affinity
d) Corporate
e) Commercial
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
115) _____ portals support communities such as hobby groups or political parties.
a) Industrywide
b) Personal
c) Affinity
d) Corporate
e) Commercial
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
116) Which of the following is a drawback of e-learning?
a) Equipment needs
b) Flexibility
c) Time to learn
d) Training costs
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
117) _____ portals coordinate content within relatively narrow organizational and partners’
communities.
a) Publishing
b) Personal
c) Affinity
d) Corporate
e) Commercial
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
118) Many organizations have implemented corporate portals for which of the following reasons?
a) To cut costs
b) To free up time for busy managers
c) To improve profitability
d) To offer customers self-service opportunities
e) All of these
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
119) Which of the following is a benefit of telecommuting for employees?
a) Productivity
b) Retention
c) Stress-levels
d) Visibility
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
120) Portals are an example of which network application?
a) Discovery
b) Collaboration
c) Communications
d) Web services
e) None of these
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
121) With _____, every call opens up a dedicated circuit for the duration of the call.
a) Voice over IP
b) Plain old telephone service
c) Chat rooms
d) Teleconference
e) Internet relay chat
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
122) Which of the following is a disadvantage of telecommuting for employers?
a) Isolation
b) Promotion
c) Supervision
d) Visibility
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
123) With _____, phone calls are treated as just another kind of data.
a) Voice over IP
b) Plain old telephone service
c) Chat rooms
d) Teleconference
e) Internet relay chat
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
124) Skype is an example of _______.
a) Teleconference
b) Telepresence
c) Plain old telephone service
d) Voice over IP
e) Videoconference
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
125) Workflow, groupware, and telepresence systems are examples of which network application?
a) Discovery
b) Communications
c) Collaboration
d) Web services
e) None of these
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
126) The newest type of videoconferencing technology is ________.
a) Teleconferencing
b) Telepresence
c) Work group analysis software
d) Workflow software
e) Groupware
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
127) In a _____ system, participants are able to seamlessly and electronically share data, voice, images,
graphics, and animation.
a) Teleconference
b) Group decision support
c) Telepresence
d) Telephone conference call
e) Crowdsourcing
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
128) The benefits of e-learning include which of the following?
a) Increased content retention

b) Current, high-quality content
c) Consistency
d) Flexibility
e) All of these
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
129) Which of the following is not a disadvantage of telecommuting for employees?
a) Fewer opportunities for housebound people

b) Possible loss of fringe benefits
c) Lower pay (in some cases)
d) No workplace visibility
e) Slower promotions
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
130) Refer to Opening Case – The Network Neutrality Wars: Which of the following is not a challenge for
achieving net neutrality?
a) The amount of video traffic on the Internet is increasing.

b) Under current models, the investment required to meet future demand exceeds projected revenue
growth.
c) Net neutrality might hinder U.S. competitiveness.
d) Network providers could censor certain content by slowing down or blocking access.
e) Telecommunications and cable companies are in favor of net neutrality.
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
131) Which of the following is NOT a goal of Qwiki?
a) To turn information into an experience

b) To personalize their page to every user
c) To create a superior a video experience
d) All of the above are goals of Qwiki
Answer: C
Section: IT’s About Business: Informative Videos on the Fly
Difficulty: Hard
search for items from one of his suppliers for special orders. Which type of network application is being
used when a salesperson is looking up items in stock?
a) Discovery
b) Communications
c) Collaboration
d) Web services
e) None of these
Answer: e
Difficulty: Medium
search for items from one of his suppliers for special orders. The Web site for the store is
www.GalsTunes.net. Which of the following is true?
a) Gal must be hosting his Web site on his own desktop computer based on its URL.
b) The point-of-sale terminal cannot connect to the Internet.
c) Gal must not be selling on his Web site because the top-level domain is “net” and not “com.”
d) The desktop computer must also be able to connect to the Internet in order for the notebook to
access data from it.
e) All of these are true.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
Question Type: Short Answer
134) Differentiate between analog signals and digital signals.
Difficulty: Medium
135) Describe the various communications processors.
Difficulty: Medium
136) Differentiate among twisted-pair wire, coaxial cable, and fiber-optic cable.
Difficulty: Medium
137) Explain what network protocols are and why they are important.
Difficulty: Medium
138) Describe the three basic types of peer-to-peer processing.
Difficulty: Medium
139) Describe the benefits of networks to organizations.
Difficulty: Medium
140) Describe the four network applications.
Difficulty: Medium
141) Describe the various types of portals.
Difficulty: Medium
142) What are the benefits and limitations of telecommuting? For individuals? For organizations?
Difficulty: Medium
Question Type: Essay Questions

143) What does the following statement mean: “Without networks, the computer on your desk would
be merely another productivity tool, just like the typewriter once was”?
Learning Objective: Summarize the fundamental concepts and skills related to computer networks.
Section Reference: Chapter 6
Difficulty: Hard
144) Differentiate among local area networks, wide-area networks, and value-added networks.
of networks.
Difficulty: Medium
145) Describe the functions of the TCP/IP protocol.
Difficulty: Medium
146) Differentiate between client/server computing and peer-to-peer processing.
Difficulty: Medium
147) What are the implications of telepresence systems? Include in your answer the uncertain safety in
many parts of the world.
Difficulty: Hard
148) Discuss the advantages of voice over IP for organizations.
Difficulty: Hard
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Rainer, Information System, Third Canadian Edition Testbank

Question Type: True-False

1) The Internet is a wide area network.

4) LANs typically contain multiple WANs.

8) Digital signals are discrete pulses that are either on or off.

11) Digital signals have two parameters: frequency and amplitude.

13) Ethernet is a common LAN protocol.

15) Twisted-pair wire is the least-used form of communications wiring.

18) Currently, ATM networks operate only on fiber-optic cable.

20) The World Wide Web is synonymous with the Internet.

21) The Internet is a global network of computer networks.

23) Intranets support discovery, communication, and collaboration inside an organization.

25) Extranets offer limited accessibility to the intranets of participating companies.

35) VoIP converts analog signals to digital ones.

46) Qwiki produces a real-time search result in multimedia form.

Question Type: Multiple Choice

47) Which of the following is NOT a reason networks are essential?

a) They offer a company flexibility.

49) ______________ refers to the transmission capacity of a network.

50) Which of the following are advantages of computer networks?

a) They enable organizations to be more flexible.

53) Which of the following is not a component of a local area network?

a) WAN, MAN, PAN, LAN

55) A _____ connects dissimilar networks.

a) Local area network

57) _____________ usually spans a city.

a) They are provided by individual companies.

62) Some modems convert ________ to __________, which is called __________.

a) analog, digital, modulation

66) __________ is the most prevalent form of communications wiring.

a) Integrated services digital networks

68) Which of the following is not a communications channel?

69) Which of the following is a disadvantage of twisted-pair wire?

70) Which of the following is not a characteristic of twisted-pair wire?

71) Which of the following is an advantage of coaxial cable?

72) The cable medium with the highest bandwidth is:

73) Data are sent through a fiber-optic cable by a(n) _______.

a) Asynchronous Transfer Mode

a) Digital subscriber line

a) Digital subscriber line

a) Digital subscriber line

80) A protocol is:

81) The __________ type of peer-to-peer processing is real-time, person-to-person collaboration.

84) In TCP/IP, IP is responsible for:

a) Disassembling and reassembling of packets during transmission.

a) Packets contain a sequence number.

a) Gal must have a Web site in order to use his notebook.

90) An ______________ is a restricted network within a company.

e) World Wide Web

94) A ______________ offers limited accessibility inside the organization.

96) Internet service providers connect to one another through _____.

a) Internet connection points

97) Domain names are read from __________ to __________.

103) Internet Explorer’s first browser battle was with ___________.

105) Applications offered by the Internet2 include which of the following?

107) A ___________ portal is the most popular portal on the Internet.

108) Networks enable which of the following applications?

109) Which of the following are advantages of computer networks?

a) They enable organizations to be more flexible.

111) ___________ is(are) the largest-volume application running on the Internet.

113) ___________ is(are) the latest version of videoconferencing.

116) Which of the following is a drawback of e-learning?

119) Which of the following is a benefit of telecommuting for employees?

62) Some modems convert to , which is called ____.

97) Domain names are read from to .