CSC 100 Practice Test Questions and Answers
A hostname such as "" must
A. belong to some unique top level domain
B. be translated to a unique IP address
C. be used in a URL (eg. in a browser's address bar) instead of its IP address
D. refer to a unique postal address in the US
E. Be bought pu...
CSC 100 Practice Test Questions and
Answers
A hostname such as "yahoo.com" must
A. belong to some unique top level domain
B. be translated to a unique IP address
C. be used in a URL (eg. in a browser's address bar) instead of its IP address
D. refer to a unique postal address in the US
E. Be bought publicly by auction - answer A
Which of the following controls the internet hence can shut it down?
A. the us military
B. the top level domains
C. the united nations headquarter
D. the US president
E. nobody - answer E
Which of the following statements is not true about the internet?
A. it is an IP data packet network
B. It is controlled by a single government
C. it is the foundation of the WWW
D. it uses DNS to lookup the IP address of every hostname
E. it cannot be shut down completely - answer B
If you receive an HTML email from " facebook.com" asking for an update of your
personal information, you can protect yourself from "phishing" scam by:
A. clicking the supplied "validated update" link
B. looking for any misspellings in the email message
C. examining the authenticity of the facebook.com logo
D. updating your personal user account directly by visiting the "http://facebook.com"
website in your browser without clicking the email
E. calling facebook.com by phone to confirm the validity of the email - answer D
the internet was born out of
a. a request by sir tim berners - lee's to construct the world wide web
b. connecting a few mainframe computers to serve millions of users world-wide.
c. the desire of allowing the scientists at the european organization for nuclear research
to share their data accross the globe
d. a project called ARPANET funded by the us department of advanced research
project agency - answer D
TCP/IP was developed initially for
A. mobile data network
, B. ARPANET
C. world wide web
D. PSTN - answer B
if you login to a secured server (eg. Apple Google) with a password and in addition it
asks you for a code that it sends to your phone. This is known as:
A. secured remote login
B. two way logins
C. two-factor authentication
D. remote access - answer C
To upload or publish files securely to "unix.uvic.ca" we use
A. HTTPS
B. HTTP
C. FTP
D. SFTP - answer D
A popular website such as facebook.com may have multiple IP addresses associated
with the same domain name. That is looking up "facebook.com" may return multiple IP
addresses. Why?
A. prevent attacks to know which machine is the "real" facebook.com
B. prevent users to steal each other's personal information
C. when one machine is down, it can use another IP address i.e. uses one at a time
D. serve geographically distributed user groups across the world i.e. uses whichever
one is faster for the user
E. provide different services using different IP addresses - answer D
Every IP packet must contain sender's and reciever's
A. names
B. postal addresses
C. phone numbers
D. IP addresses
E. hostnames - answer D
Which of the following must be present in an IP packet?
A. sender's hostname
B. sender's IP address
C. sender's domain name
D. receiver's domain name
E. all of the above - answer B
What is the port number for http?
A. 11
B. 20
C. 43
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