Internet & Its Services — GK Questions with Answers

1. Which one is described as a “network of networks”?
   1. A website
   2. A browser
   3. The Internet
   4. An e-mail account
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   Answer: (C) The Internet

   The Internet is a joined-up form of countless private and public networks.

2. Who is regarded as the Father of the Internet?
   1. Vint Cerf
   2. Tim Berners-Lee
   3. Mark Zuckerberg
   4. Kevin Duffey
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   Answer: (A) Vint Cerf

   Tim Berners-Lee is tied to the WWW and the URL; the title of father goes to Vint Cerf.

3. Which network of 1969 is called the seed of the Internet?
   1. NSFnet
   2. ARPANET
   3. Usenet
   4. Extranet
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   Answer: (B) ARPANET

   ARPANET was the first working packet-switching network.

4. Which kind of use did NSFnet permit?
   1. Academic research only
   2. Private business
   3. Online shopping
   4. Advertising
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   Answer: (A) Academic research only

   Private business was barred; later private networks joined up to form the Internet.

5. Which of these is a disadvantage of the Internet?
   1. Talking to people far away
   2. Saving paper
   3. A route for spreading viruses
   4. An advertising platform for firms
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   Answer: (C) A route for spreading viruses

   The other three are advantages.

6. Which two things are weighed when choosing a new connection?
   1. Colour and size
   2. Bandwidth and cost
   3. Brand and weight
   4. Language and country
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   Answer: (B) Bandwidth and cost

   Bandwidth sets the speed, so it is balanced against cost.

7. Ravi’s village has just a telephone line and his modem dials the ISP’s number each time. What type of connection is this?
   1. Cable modem
   2. Dial-up
   3. BPL
   4. WiMAX
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   Answer: (B) Dial-up

   Dial-up is not broadband; it is slow and blocks the phone line.

8. The technology that gives broadband over the same co-axial wire that brings TV pictures —
   1. DSL
   2. Cable modem
   3. Wi-Fi
   4. Telnet
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   Answer: (B) Cable modem

   Speeds are 1.5 Mbps or more.

9. In a settlement with power lines but no other broadband, which technology can bring the Internet?
   1. BPL
   2. DSL
   3. PPP
   4. VoIP
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   Answer: (A) BPL

   BPL runs broadband on the power-distribution wires.

10. The commonest broadband service, sending digital data over existing copper phone lines —
    1. Cable
    2. BPL
    3. DSL
    4. Mobile broadband
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    Answer: (C) DSL

    DSL = Digital Subscriber Line.

11. The public hotspot that gives wire-free Internet in an airport lounge runs on which technology?
    1. Wi-Fi
    2. DSL
    3. BPL
    4. Dial-up
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    Answer: (A) Wi-Fi

    Wi-Fi sends data on radio frequencies.

12. The service a roaming customer gets through a PC card with a built-in antenna —
    1. Dial-up
    2. Cable modem
    3. Extranet
    4. Mobile wireless broadband
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    Answer: (D) Mobile wireless broadband

    Speeds are typically a few hundred kbps.

13. A company shows its trusted suppliers part of its stock data over a private network. This network is called an —
    1. Intranet
    2. Extranet
    3. Usenet
    4. Podcast
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    Answer: (B) Extranet

    An intranet stays inside the organisation; shared with outside partners it is an extranet.

14. An audio talk file that downloads on its own to a subscriber’s device is called a —
    1. Blog
    2. Cookie
    3. Podcast
    4. Cluster
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    Answer: (C) Podcast

    A podcast is a digital programme set for automatic download.

15. Which common set of rules is the standard for talking over the Internet?
    1. TCP/IP
    2. HTML
    3. Flash
    4. Java
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    Answer: (A) TCP/IP

    HTML is a language, not a protocol.

16. Which part chops a message into packets at the sender and rejoins them at the receiver?
    1. IP
    2. TCP
    3. FTP
    4. SMTP
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    Answer: (B) TCP

    IP looks after addresses and forwarding.

17. Which addresses are written on every IP packet?
    1. Destination only
    2. Source only
    3. Both source and destination
    4. None
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    Answer: (C) Both source and destination

    With both addresses the packet finds its way and a reply can return.

18. An IPv4 address is a number of how many bits?
    1. 16
    2. 32
    3. 64
    4. 128
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    Answer: (B) 32

    32 bits = four bytes, written as four numbers (0–255).

19. The protocol for moving a file between two computers with different operating systems —
    1. FTP
    2. HTTP
    3. SMTP
    4. PPP
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    Answer: (A) FTP

    FTP = File Transfer Protocol.

20. Which protocol does a browser use to request web pages?
    1. SMTP
    2. HTTP
    3. FTP
    4. Telnet
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    Answer: (B) HTTP

    HTTP = HyperText Transfer Protocol.

21. Which one is a markup language for building pages rather than a protocol?
    1. HTTP
    2. FTP
    3. HTML
    4. SMTP
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    Answer: (C) HTML

    HTML = HyperText Markup Language.

22. Within which kind of brackets are HTML tags written?
    1. Round ( )
    2. Curly { }
    3. Angular < >
    4. Square [ ]
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    Answer: (C) Angular < >

    Each code is an element or tag.

23. What is the minimum needed to write a plain HTML page?
    1. A text editor
    2. A search engine
    3. A web server
    4. A video card
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    Answer: (A) A text editor

    The file is saved in HTML form.

24. The program for running a text-based session on a server from far away —
    1. Telnet
    2. Podcast
    3. Bookmark
    4. Webmail
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    Answer: (A) Telnet

    The session starts with a valid username and password.

25. Newsgroups meant for discussing a shared interest belong to which service?
    1. Usenet
    2. VoIP
    3. DNS
    4. WAP
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    Answer: (A) Usenet

    Usenet has no central server or administration.

26. The dial account that puts a computer directly on the Internet is made with which protocol?
    1. PPP
    2. FTP
    3. HTTP
    4. WAP
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    Answer: (A) PPP

    PPP = Point-to-Point Protocol.

27. The standard protocol for sending and receiving e-mail —
    1. SMTP
    2. Telnet
    3. FTP
    4. DSL
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    Answer: (A) SMTP

    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

28. A browser using which protocol is used to view the web on small mobile devices?
    1. VoIP
    2. WAP
    3. SMTP
    4. FTP
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    Answer: (B) WAP

    WAP = Wireless Application Protocol.

29. The technology for phone-like talk over an IP network —
    1. VoIP
    2. DNS
    3. HTML
    4. URL
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    Answer: (A) VoIP

    VoIP = Voice over Internet Protocol.

30. Who is credited with starting the WWW, and when?
    1. Vint Cerf, 1969
    2. Tim Berners-Lee, March 1989
    3. Mark Zuckerberg, 2004
    4. Kevin Duffey, 1997
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    Answer: (B) Tim Berners-Lee, March 1989

    The URL came in 1991; the WWW began in 1989.

31. Which statement correctly relates the Internet and the Web?
    1. They are exactly the same thing
    2. The Web is a service running on the Internet
    3. The Internet runs on the Web
    4. The Web is only e-mail
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    Answer: (B) The Web is a service running on the Internet

    The Internet is the road; the Web is a vehicle on it.

32. The page first shown when a website is opened —
    1. Home page
    2. Bookmark
    3. Mailbox
    4. Domain
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    Answer: (A) Home page

    A website = a collection of web pages.

33. Which was the first graphical web browser?
    1. Lynx
    2. NCSA Mosaic
    3. Opera
    4. Safari
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    Answer: (B) NCSA Mosaic

    Lynx is a text-based browser.

34. An example of a browser that shows text only —
    1. Lynx
    2. Firefox
    3. Chrome
    4. Safari
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    Answer: (A) Lynx

    The other three are graphical.

35. Which of these could be an IP address in dotted form?
    1. 192.168.1.10
    2. 192.168.1.300
    3. 192.168
    4. 192.168.1.1.1.1
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    Answer: (A) 192.168.1.10

    Four numbers, each between 0 and 255.

36. In the relationship between a web server and a browser, the browser plays the role of a —
    1. Server
    2. Client
    3. Router
    4. Firewall
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    Answer: (B) Client

    The browser asks for a page; the server supplies it.

37. The part of a page that opens another document when clicked is a —
    1. Cookie
    2. Hyperlink
    3. Cluster
    4. Spam
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    Answer: (B) Hyperlink

    Hyperlinks hold the Web together.

38. In http://www.school.edu/notes/index.htm, which part is the domain name?
    1. http
    2. school.edu
    3. notes
    4. index.htm
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    Answer: (B) school.edu

    The unique name after www is the domain.

39. In the same address, what is the protocol identifier?
    1. http://
    2. www
    3. /notes/
    4. .edu
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    Answer: (A) http://

    A URL needs a protocol identifier and a domain name; www is not compulsory.

40. In the same address, which part is the web page file?
    1. school.edu
    2. http://
    3. /notes/
    4. index.htm
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    Answer: (D) index.htm

    /notes/ is the directory.

41. A university’s website address usually ends with —
    1. .com
    2. .mil
    3. .edu
    4. .org
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    Answer: (C) .edu

    .com is for profit business, .org non-profit, .mil military.

42. Which countries do the endings .uk and .nz stand for, in order?
    1. Ukraine, Nepal
    2. United Kingdom, New Zealand
    3. United Kingdom, Nigeria
    4. Uganda, New Zealand
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    Answer: (B) United Kingdom, New Zealand

    .in is India, .au Australia, .fr France.

43. What is the main job of DNS?
    1. Securing e-mail
    2. Converting domain names into IP addresses
    3. Zipping files
    4. Designing pages
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    Answer: (B) Converting domain names into IP addresses

    It works like the phone book of the Internet.

44. What is each entry on a blog called?
    1. Hit
    2. Post
    3. Packet
    4. Tag
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    Answer: (B) Post

    On a blog the writer keeps adding views and links.

45. Which of these is a search engine, not a browser?
    1. Lycos
    2. Opera
    3. Safari
    4. Lynx
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    Answer: (A) Lycos

    Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Excite are search engines too.

46. Getting links to pages that match the keywords you typed is called a —
    1. Miss
    2. Hit
    3. Bounce
    4. Crash
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    Answer: (B) Hit

    If nothing matches, it is a miss.

47. Which parts make up a search engine?
    1. Only a crawler
    2. Only an index
    3. Only an algorithm
    4. Crawlers, indexing software and a search algorithm
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    Answer: (D) Crawlers, indexing software and a search algorithm

    All three together make searching possible.

48. Which of these is a valid e-mail address?
    1. asha.verma@mail.com
    2. asha verma@mail.com
    3. @asha.com
    4. asha@@mail.com
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    Answer: (A) asha.verma@mail.com

    There must be one “@” and no space.

49. The correct order in an e-mail address —
    1. domain @ user name
    2. user name @ host/domain
    3. user name . postal address
    4. user name # domain
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    Answer: (B) user name @ host/domain

    The name sits left of @, the host right of it.

50. In which field are recipients’ addresses hidden from the others?
    1. To
    2. Cc
    3. Bcc
    4. Subject
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    Answer: (C) Bcc

    Bcc = blind carbon copy.

51. The part of an e-mail that briefly states what the message is about —
    1. Subject
    2. Attachment
    3. Mailbox
    4. Cc
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    Answer: (A) Subject

    Cc is for copies.

52. You get a strange e-mail from a stranger. The safest step is to —
    1. Open and read it at once
    2. Reply with your personal details
    3. Delete it without opening
    4. Forward it to everyone
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    Answer: (C) Delete it without opening

    Such junk mail is spam, and it can carry viruses.

53. What is a file that travels along with an e-mail called?
    1. Attachment
    2. Cookie
    3. Bookmark
    4. Podcast
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    Answer: (A) Attachment

    It can be a document, a picture, etc.

54. Face-like symbols used in a written message to show feeling are called —
    1. Emoticons / smileys
    2. Hyperlinks
    3. Packets
    4. Domains
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    Answer: (A) Emoticons / smileys

    For example :-) or ☺.

55. The storage area where incoming e-mail messages are kept —
    1. Cluster
    2. Mailbox
    3. Directory
    4. Cache
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    Answer: (B) Mailbox

    Inbox, sender and receiver are e-mail words too.

56. Which of these is not an e-mail service provider?
    1. Gmail
    2. Yahoo Mail
    3. Bing
    4. Outlook
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    Answer: (C) Bing

    Bing is a search engine.

57. Four people in three cities hold a room-like meeting through cameras and mics. This service is —
    1. Webmail
    2. Video conferencing
    3. E-shopping
    4. Podcasting
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    Answer: (B) Video conferencing

    Each site needs a computer, camera, mic, screen and sound system.

58. Booking a train ticket from home is an example of which service?
    1. E-learning
    2. E-reservation
    3. E-banking
    4. Chatting
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    Answer: (B) E-reservation

    irctc.com and makemytrip.com are examples.

59. Connecting to a bank’s website to manage an account is called —
    1. E-learning
    2. E-reservation
    3. E-banking
    4. M-commerce
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    Answer: (C) E-banking

    It is also called Internet banking.

60. Which social networking site did Mark Zuckerberg found?
    1. Orkut
    2. MySpace
    3. Facebook
    4. Yahoo
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    Answer: (C) Facebook

    Orkut and MySpace were social sites too.

61. Passing a business deal electronically from one computer to another is called —
    1. EDI
    2. DNS
    3. ISP
    4. ASP
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    Answer: (A) EDI

    EDI = Electronic Data Interchange.

62. Buying and selling goods using a handheld device like a mobile —
    1. E-learning
    2. M-commerce
    3. E-banking
    4. E-mail
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    Answer: (B) M-commerce

    The term is linked with Kevin Duffey in 1997.

63. The widest term for trading goods over the Internet —
    1. E-commerce
    2. E-learning
    3. E-reservation
    4. Webmail
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    Answer: (A) E-commerce

    E-commerce includes sharing information, keeping relations and transactions.

64. A group of servers where the others take over if one fails —
    1. Cluster
    2. Cookie
    3. Hotspot
    4. Domain
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    Answer: (A) Cluster

    A cluster also shares the work.

65. The interface that lets you open your e-mail from any computer while travelling abroad —
    1. Webmail
    2. Telnet
    3. BPL
    4. PPP
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    Answer: (A) Webmail

    Gmail and Yahoo Mail are webmail examples.

66. The e-mail feature that allows bold, italic or different fonts —
    1. Plain text
    2. Rich text formatting
    3. Spam filter
    4. Bcc
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    Answer: (B) Rich text formatting

    Plain text has no styling.

67. How does a website usually recognise a returning visitor?
    1. Cookie
    2. Hyperlink
    3. Podcast
    4. Bookmark
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    Answer: (A) Cookie

    A cookie keeps information about the user’s web activity.

68. A saved link to a favourite page so you can reach it quickly again —
    1. Bookmark
    2. Cookie
    3. Cluster
    4. Post
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    Answer: (A) Bookmark

    A bookmark is a browser feature.

69. What do you call a company that hosts and runs your application over the Internet?
    1. ISP
    2. ASP
    3. DNS
    4. URL
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    Answer: (B) ASP

    ISP = Internet Service Provider, which only supplies the connection.

70. By which address does one host on the Internet reach another?
    1. Postal address
    2. IP address
    3. Home address
    4. Phone number
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    Answer: (B) IP address

    DNS turns the name into an IP address.

71. Which of these is a means of personal communication on the Internet?
    1. Plotter
    2. Instant messaging
    3. Pie chart
    4. Slide show
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    Answer: (B) Instant messaging

    Chat, instant messaging and e-mail are means of communication.

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