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✔✔(Ch. 2) Which of the following is a web app?
A. Google Docs
B. Microsoft Edge
C. Flipboard
D. Yahoo! - ✔✔A. Google Docs
✔✔(Ch. 2) Patricia intends to study analyses of the last five Presidential elections.
Which of the following is an authentic source for the study?
A. A political commentator's website that is popular in a certain region
B. Articles published in a newspaper known to be neutral toward any political party
C. The personal websites of the presidential candidates who lost the last five elections
D. The official websites of the Democratic and Republican parties - ✔✔B. Articles
published in a newspaper known to be neutral toward any political party
✔✔(Ch. 2) Francis has designed a picture book appropriate for third graders. He wants
teachers across the world to freely download, use, and distribute his work, but he would
still like to retain his copyright on the content. What type of license should he use for his
book?
A. digital rights management
B. fair use license
C. Creative Commons license
D. standard copyright - ✔✔C. Creative Commons license
✔✔(Ch. 2) Google is an example of which type of website?
A. A web portal
B. A search site
C. An online social network
D. A content aggregation site - ✔✔B. A search site
✔✔(Ch. 2) Kyle likes to keep in touch with his friends and family using the Internet. He
enjoys sharing pictures, music, and ideas. He also enjoys playing games with others
online. Which of the following online platforms should he use to do all of this?
A. Google, because it is one of the most popular search engines
B. Facebook, because it is an online social network that allows game play
C. YouTube, because it is a popular video-sharing website
D. Flipboard, because he does not need to register before using it - ✔✔B. Facebook,
because it is an online social network that allows game play
, ✔✔(Ch. 2) Susan is reading through a collection of webpages that contains information
about a software firm. The firm manages the information on these webpages. What is
Susan most likely browsing?
A. Her email account
B. Someone's Facebook profile
C. Different pages listed by a search engine
D. The website of the software firm - ✔✔D. The website of the software firm
✔✔(Ch. 2) Which of the following is assigned to each webpage to identify its location on
the Internet?
A. universal address
B. uniform resource locator (URL)
C. hyperlinks
D. Transport Layer Security (TLS) - ✔✔B. uniform resource locator (URL)
✔✔(Ch. 2) Rogelio wants to buy appliances for his newly leased apartment. He looks
for information on PriceGrabber, a comparison shopping website. Which of the following
advantages do sites such as this offer?
A. Discounts on future purchases
B. Mobile payment plans
C. Price comparisons from different vendors
D. Easy delivery of appliances to any location - ✔✔C. Price comparisons from different
vendors
✔✔(Ch. 2) Benny is writing a research paper on a specific method of farming. He really
admires the methods used by one farmer, who is also a published author, and wants to
use his explanations in his research paper. How can Benny ensure he doesn't
plagiarize?
A. Add a formal citation and use the farmer's explanation in his paper.
B. Use the farmer's explanation verbatim in his paper.
C. Change a few words in the farmer's explanation in his paper.
D. Rephrase the farmer's explanation in his paper. - ✔✔A. Add a formal citation and use
the farmer's explanation in his paper.
✔✔(Ch. 2) Alicia often shows short, engaging videos to her fifth-grade science students.
She has more success using RhythmOne instead of Google to find appropriate videos.
Which of the following most likely explains why?
A. Unlike Google, RhythmOne uses speech recognition to match the audio part of the
video with the search term.