NetCommRevision

=Networks and Communications Revision=

Basic Terms Revision Questions
provided by Jeffrey Gray

What is the Internet? State 7 uses of the Internet: What is an ISP? Use the words: client, server, packet, router, packet switching, tcp/ip to describe how data travels through the Internet. What is an IP address? What is a domain name? Give an example. What is the difference between a domain and a domain name? What does a Domain Name Server do? Describe the features of the World Wide Web. What can a web page contain? What is a URL? Give an example. What does http stand for? What is a browser? What is a Web Server? What does HTML stand for? What is HTML? What does it consist of? What is a Search Engine? Describe how a person can buy an item from an e-commerce web site. Describe the function of HTML tags. Describe the parts of the email address: joe@email.com.au Describe how a person can send email to another person in another country. What does FTP refer to? Describe its use. What can Telnet be used for? Why is it not used much today? What is spam? What is a cookie and how is it used by a web site?