QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following is not true about de facto standards?
A. They never evolve into de jure standards.
B. They are those standards that emerge in the marketplace.
C. They tend not to be developed by an official industry or government body.
D. They are generally supported by more than one vendor but de facto standards have no
official standing.
E. They tend to emerge based upon the needs/response of the marketplace. - CORRECT
ANSWER A. They never evolve into de jure standards.
A(n) ___________ is similar to an intranet in that it uses Internet technologies, but is
developed for users outside the organization.
A. intranet
B. Usenet
C. Wide Area Network
D. Extranet - CORRECT ANSWER D. Extranet
Due to recent advances in high speed communication networks, the information lag, or the
time it takes for information to be disseminated around the world, has been significantly
shortened.
(T/F) - CORRECT ANSWER True
Which of the following is not an important future trend in communication and networking?
A. development of online batch systems
B. integration of voice, video, and data
C. pervasive networking
, D. provision of new information services on rapidly expanding networks
E. development of extremely high speed broadband networks - CORRECT
ANSWER A. development of online batch systems
___________ is an orderly close to a dialogue between end users.
A. Session termination
B. Physical bits
C. Frame overhead
D. Packet encapsulation
E. Message encryption - CORRECT ANSWER A. Session termination
Which of the following is not a property of a WAN:
A. connects backbone networks and MANS.
B. spans hundreds or thousands of miles
C. provides data transmission speeds from 56Kbps to 10Gbps.
D. connects a group of computers in a small geographic area such as room, floor, building or
campus.
E. uses leased lines from IXCs like ATT, MCI, and Sprint. - CORRECT ANSWER D.
connects a group of computers in a small geographic area such as room, floor, building or
campus.
A local area network (LAN) connects other LANs and BNs located in different areas to each
other and to wide area networks in a span from 3 to 30 miles.
(T/F) - CORRECT ANSWER False
Which standards body is responsible for the development of local area network (LAN)
standards?
A. ANSI