ITN 100 EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Which layer of the OSI model is responsible for ensuring that all packets sent are
received by the destination station by dealing with end-to-end issues? - ✔✔transport
Layer
✔✔The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - ✔✔is the coordinating
organization for the United States' national system of standards
✔✔Which of the following is not true about de juro standards? - ✔✔They are always
developed before de facto standards.
✔✔A(n) _____________ is a set of rules that determine what a layer would do and
provides a clearly defined set of messages that software at the layer needs to
understand - ✔✔protocol
✔✔___________ is an orderly close to a dialogue between end users - ✔✔Session
termination
✔✔A(n) _________ is a LAN that uses the same technologies as the Internet but is
provided to invited users outside the organization who access it over the Internet -
✔✔extranet
✔✔Which standards body is responsible for the development of local area network
(LAN) standards? - ✔✔IEEE
✔✔In a host-based system with a mainframe, upgrades to the host are _____________
- ✔✔Lumpy
,✔✔Which of the following is not a general function by any application program? -
✔✔application access storage
✔✔With a client-based network, one fundamental problem is that: - ✔✔all data on the
server must travel to the client for processing
✔✔_________ is an application program function that deals with storing and retrieving
data - ✔✔data storage
✔✔The standard protocol for communication between a Web browser and a Web
server is the web protocol - ✔✔False
✔✔____________ is not an important middleware standard - ✔✔Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM)
✔✔Scalability refers to the ability to increase or decrease the capacity of the computing
infrastructure in response to changing capacity needs - ✔✔True
✔✔In the three tier architecture the software on the client computer is responsible
for____________ - ✔✔presentation logic
✔✔Cloud computing is now available on the client side (i.e. the desktop) - ✔✔True
✔✔An N-tiered architecture - ✔✔is generally more "scalable" than a three-tiered
architecture
✔✔Which of the following is not a user agent package? - ✔✔Microsoft Word
✔✔To use the Web, each client computer requires a data link layer software package
called a Web browser - ✔✔False
✔✔________ is the presentation of information to the user and the acceptance of the
user's commands - ✔✔presentation logic
✔✔To get a page from the Web, a user must type in a URL, which stands for: -
✔✔Uniform Resource Locator
✔✔As the demand for more and more network applications grow; host-based
computing becomes the best solution - ✔✔False
✔✔A "thin client" approach places most of the application logic on the client - ✔✔False
,✔✔In a client-server network, _________ gets software from different vendors to work
together - ✔✔middleware
✔✔The acronym, MIME, refers to: - ✔✔multipurpose internet mail extension
✔✔The protocol that makes it possible for a Macintosh web browser to be able to
retrieve a Web page from a Microsoft Web server is called _____________________ -
✔✔Hypertext Transfer Protocol
✔✔There are optional and required parts of an HTTP request. They are: - ✔✔request
line, request header, request body
✔✔The ________________ cloud deployment model provides the highest levels of
control, privacy and security - ✔✔private
✔✔With the "thin client" architecture, when an application changes, only the _________
with the application logic needs to be updated - ✔✔server
✔✔A(n) __________ is the way in which the functions of the application layer software
are spread among the clients and servers in the network - ✔✔application architecture
✔✔The World Wide Web was conceived at University of Utah as part of the
development of the Internet - ✔✔False
✔✔Host-based and client-based networks are similar in that the client computer
performs most of the work - ✔✔False
✔✔A ________ is a group of computers linked together so that they act as one
computer - ✔✔server farm
✔✔IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol): - ✔✔permits an e-mail message to
remain stored on the mail server even after they have been read by a client computer
✔✔Web-based e-mail like Hotmail is an example of three-tier client-server architecture
that provides access to e-mail messages. - ✔✔True
✔✔The four general functions of any application program are: data storage, data
access logic, application logic and presentation logic - ✔✔True
✔✔An application program function is __________, or the processing required to
access data - ✔✔data access logic
, ✔✔A server farm is a group of computers that are linked together so they act as a one
computer - ✔✔True
✔✔The earliest data communications networks were client-server networks - ✔✔False
✔✔One of the most frequently used Telnet applications is - ✔✔PuTTY
✔✔The two functions of middleware are to: 1) provide a standard way of communicating
that can translate between software from different vendors, and 2) manage the
message transfer between clients and servers so that clients do not need to 'know'
which server contains the application's data - ✔✔True
✔✔The idea for a special hypertext network, called the World Wide Web, was
conceived of by: - ✔✔Tim Berners-Lee at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
(CERN) in 1989
✔✔With the two-tier client-server architecture, the server is responsible for the
________ logic - ✔✔data access
✔✔A request header for an HTTP request starts with a command, such as GET, and
ends with the HTTP version number that the browser understands - ✔✔False
✔✔______________, or the algorithms or business logic programmed into the
application, can be simple or complex depending on the application - ✔✔application
logic
✔✔Marc Andreessen led a team that developed the first graphical Web browser, which
was called: - ✔✔Mosaic
✔✔One disadvantage of the ____________ architecture is that places a greater load on
the network - ✔✔n-tier
✔✔Time division multiplexing is more efficient that frequency division multiplexing
because the guardbands used in the frequency division multiplexing or not needed. -
✔✔True
✔✔Radio, microwave and satellite are all examples of guided media. - ✔✔True
✔✔The earliest type of fiber optic systems were: - ✔✔Multimode
✔✔The _____________ of a circuit determines a circuit's capacity. - ✔✔bandwidth
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Which layer of the OSI model is responsible for ensuring that all packets sent are
received by the destination station by dealing with end-to-end issues? - ✔✔transport
Layer
✔✔The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - ✔✔is the coordinating
organization for the United States' national system of standards
✔✔Which of the following is not true about de juro standards? - ✔✔They are always
developed before de facto standards.
✔✔A(n) _____________ is a set of rules that determine what a layer would do and
provides a clearly defined set of messages that software at the layer needs to
understand - ✔✔protocol
✔✔___________ is an orderly close to a dialogue between end users - ✔✔Session
termination
✔✔A(n) _________ is a LAN that uses the same technologies as the Internet but is
provided to invited users outside the organization who access it over the Internet -
✔✔extranet
✔✔Which standards body is responsible for the development of local area network
(LAN) standards? - ✔✔IEEE
✔✔In a host-based system with a mainframe, upgrades to the host are _____________
- ✔✔Lumpy
,✔✔Which of the following is not a general function by any application program? -
✔✔application access storage
✔✔With a client-based network, one fundamental problem is that: - ✔✔all data on the
server must travel to the client for processing
✔✔_________ is an application program function that deals with storing and retrieving
data - ✔✔data storage
✔✔The standard protocol for communication between a Web browser and a Web
server is the web protocol - ✔✔False
✔✔____________ is not an important middleware standard - ✔✔Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM)
✔✔Scalability refers to the ability to increase or decrease the capacity of the computing
infrastructure in response to changing capacity needs - ✔✔True
✔✔In the three tier architecture the software on the client computer is responsible
for____________ - ✔✔presentation logic
✔✔Cloud computing is now available on the client side (i.e. the desktop) - ✔✔True
✔✔An N-tiered architecture - ✔✔is generally more "scalable" than a three-tiered
architecture
✔✔Which of the following is not a user agent package? - ✔✔Microsoft Word
✔✔To use the Web, each client computer requires a data link layer software package
called a Web browser - ✔✔False
✔✔________ is the presentation of information to the user and the acceptance of the
user's commands - ✔✔presentation logic
✔✔To get a page from the Web, a user must type in a URL, which stands for: -
✔✔Uniform Resource Locator
✔✔As the demand for more and more network applications grow; host-based
computing becomes the best solution - ✔✔False
✔✔A "thin client" approach places most of the application logic on the client - ✔✔False
,✔✔In a client-server network, _________ gets software from different vendors to work
together - ✔✔middleware
✔✔The acronym, MIME, refers to: - ✔✔multipurpose internet mail extension
✔✔The protocol that makes it possible for a Macintosh web browser to be able to
retrieve a Web page from a Microsoft Web server is called _____________________ -
✔✔Hypertext Transfer Protocol
✔✔There are optional and required parts of an HTTP request. They are: - ✔✔request
line, request header, request body
✔✔The ________________ cloud deployment model provides the highest levels of
control, privacy and security - ✔✔private
✔✔With the "thin client" architecture, when an application changes, only the _________
with the application logic needs to be updated - ✔✔server
✔✔A(n) __________ is the way in which the functions of the application layer software
are spread among the clients and servers in the network - ✔✔application architecture
✔✔The World Wide Web was conceived at University of Utah as part of the
development of the Internet - ✔✔False
✔✔Host-based and client-based networks are similar in that the client computer
performs most of the work - ✔✔False
✔✔A ________ is a group of computers linked together so that they act as one
computer - ✔✔server farm
✔✔IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol): - ✔✔permits an e-mail message to
remain stored on the mail server even after they have been read by a client computer
✔✔Web-based e-mail like Hotmail is an example of three-tier client-server architecture
that provides access to e-mail messages. - ✔✔True
✔✔The four general functions of any application program are: data storage, data
access logic, application logic and presentation logic - ✔✔True
✔✔An application program function is __________, or the processing required to
access data - ✔✔data access logic
, ✔✔A server farm is a group of computers that are linked together so they act as a one
computer - ✔✔True
✔✔The earliest data communications networks were client-server networks - ✔✔False
✔✔One of the most frequently used Telnet applications is - ✔✔PuTTY
✔✔The two functions of middleware are to: 1) provide a standard way of communicating
that can translate between software from different vendors, and 2) manage the
message transfer between clients and servers so that clients do not need to 'know'
which server contains the application's data - ✔✔True
✔✔The idea for a special hypertext network, called the World Wide Web, was
conceived of by: - ✔✔Tim Berners-Lee at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
(CERN) in 1989
✔✔With the two-tier client-server architecture, the server is responsible for the
________ logic - ✔✔data access
✔✔A request header for an HTTP request starts with a command, such as GET, and
ends with the HTTP version number that the browser understands - ✔✔False
✔✔______________, or the algorithms or business logic programmed into the
application, can be simple or complex depending on the application - ✔✔application
logic
✔✔Marc Andreessen led a team that developed the first graphical Web browser, which
was called: - ✔✔Mosaic
✔✔One disadvantage of the ____________ architecture is that places a greater load on
the network - ✔✔n-tier
✔✔Time division multiplexing is more efficient that frequency division multiplexing
because the guardbands used in the frequency division multiplexing or not needed. -
✔✔True
✔✔Radio, microwave and satellite are all examples of guided media. - ✔✔True
✔✔The earliest type of fiber optic systems were: - ✔✔Multimode
✔✔The _____________ of a circuit determines a circuit's capacity. - ✔✔bandwidth
