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Which of the following best explains what happens when a new device is connected to the Internet?

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is assigned to the device.

Which of the following activities poses the greatest personal cybersecurity risk?

Purchasing a couch by emailing a credit card number to the couch owner

Which of the following is LEAST likely to indicate a phishing attack?

An email from your bank asks you to call the number on your card to verify a transaction.

Which of the following is considered an unethical use of computer resources?

Searching online for the answers to CodeHS exercises and quizzes

Which of the following are true statements about digital certificates in Web browsers?

Digital certificates are used to verify the ownership of encrypted keys used in secure communication.

According to the domain name system (DNS), which of the following is a subdomain of the domain example.com?

about.example.com
(the about makes it true)

A user enters a Web address in a browser, and a request for a file is sent to a Web server. Which of the following best describes how the file is sent back to the user?

The file is broken into packets and sent over a network. The packets must be reassembled by the user's computer when they are received. If any packets are missing, the browser re-requests the missing packets.

Which of the following is a benefit of the fault-tolerant nature of Internet routing?

The ability to provide data transmission even when some connections between routers have failed

Two computers are built by different manufacturers. One is running a Web server and the other is running a Web browser. Which of the following best describes whether these two computers can communicate with each other across the Internet?

The computers can communicate directly because Internet communication uses standard protocols that are used by all computers on the Internet.

A city government is attempting to reduce the digital divide between groups with differing access to computing and the Internet.

Which of the following actions is LEAST likely to be effective in this purpose?

Putting helpful tips for operating computers on the city government website

An IPv4 address has 32 bits, so there are 232 (over 4 billion) possible IPv4 addresses. Since the Internet is gaining devices quickly, we will soon surpass 232 unique devices on the Internet.

In anticipation of all the new Internet devices, we are in the process of switching to IPv6, which uses 128 bits for a single address. That's 96 extra bits to represent one address!

Which of the following statements correctly describes how many more addresses will be possible to represent by switching from IPv4 to IPv6?

2^96 times as many addresses can be represented with IPv6

Which of the following would pose the greatest threat to a user's personal privacy if it were to be leaked to the public?

the user browsers cookies

What is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

An attempt to deny access to a website by flooding the website's servers with millions of requests from different computers

Which of the following is a benefit that online shopping websites provide over brick and mortar stores?

Users can easily see product reviews and determine if an item has been satisfactory for a large number of people

Each box represents a device connected to the network, each line represents a direct connection between two devices.

Which of the following statements are true about this network:

I - The network is fault tolerant. If one connection fails, any two devices can still communicate.
II - Computers C and E need to first communicate with at least one other device in order to communicate with each other.

I - The network is fault tolerant. If one connection fails, any two devices can still communicate.

How is the bandwidth of a network measured?

Bitrate. Higher bitrate means higher bandwidth.

What is the bitrate of a system?

The amount of data (in bits) that can be sent in a fixed amount of time

What is the latency of a system?

The time it takes for a bit to travel from sender to receiver

What is the Internet Protocol (IP)?

A protocol that defines the structure of an Internet address and assigns a unique address to every device on the Internet

Suppose we used an Internet Addressing protocol that used 4 bits to encode a single address. How many devices would be supported on the Internet? How many unique addresses would there be?

16

What is the function of the Domain Name System (DNS)?

To translate domain names into IP addresses

According to the Domain Name System (DNS), which of the following is a subdomain of the domain example.com?

about.example.com

Which of the following are true about Internet routing?

I - For any two points on the Internet, there exists only one path between the two points
II - Routing on the Internet is fault tolerant and redundant

II - Routing on the Internet is fault tolerant and redundant

What information is contained in a packet?

A small part of a digital message, and metadata about the message, including where it came from and where it is going

What is a DNS spoofing attack?

A hacker overwrites the data for a given domain name in a DNS server, causing the IP for that domain to point to the hacker's website rather than the intended website.

Everyone in the world has internet access.

false

What is the purpose of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

To criminalize the act of circumventing, or getting around, access controls that block access to copyrighted works.

Which of the following statements are true about the Internet?

I - The Internet connects devices and networks all over the world
II - The Internet helps people collaborate to solve problems
III - The Internet helps people communicate
IV - There are no negative consequences of the Internet, it is purely positive

I - The Internet connects devices and networks all over the world
II - The Internet helps people collaborate to solve problems
III - The Internet helps people communicate

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What term describes the difference in access to the internet globally group of answer choices?

The digital divide is a term that refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology (ICT), and those that don't or have restricted access. This technology can include the telephone, television, personal computers and internet connectivity.

What does the digital divide refer to quizlet?

The term "digital divide" refers to. The gap between population groups who have and don't have access to computers and the internet.

Which theory attributes unequal economic distributions to the structural and cultural differences between countries?

Dominating theory is modernization theory, explaining unequal economic distributions based on structural and cultural differences between countries.

Which theory focuses on the current stratification system by viewing the world as a single economic entity?

The world systems theory, developed by sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, is an approach to world history and social change that suggests there is a world economic system in which some countries benefit while others are exploited.