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The size, shape, color, and weight of an object are considered ______ of the object’s class.

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attributes

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Middle Tier of a web-based application

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implements business logic and presentation logic to control interactions between the applications clients and it’s data.

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The company that popularized personal computing was _____.

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Apple

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The information-carrying capacity of a communications medium like the Internet is called ______.

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bandwidth

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The organization that spearheaded the internet

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ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) now called DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency

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(T/F) A web server maintains a database of hostnames and their corresponding IP address, and performs the translations automatically.

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(False) A Domain Name System (DNS) server maintains a database of hostnames and their corresponding IP addresses, and performs the translations automatically.

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Objects have the property of _____ _____- although objects may know how to communicate with one another across well-defined interfaces, they normally are not allowed to know how other objects are implemented.

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information hiding

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The ______ was the predecessor to the Internet.

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ARPANET

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_____, or labeling content, is another key part of the collaborative theme of Web 2.0.

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Tagging

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_____ _____ is the concept that a large, diverse group of people will create smart ideas.

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Collective intelligence is the concept that a large, diverse group of people will create smart ideas.

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with ______, new classes of objects are derived by absorbing characteristics of existing classes, then adding unique characteristics of their own.

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inheritance

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Microsoft’s______ is used to display warnings and ask for conformation anytime a person to make changes to something important in windows vista that requires administrative access

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User Account Control (UAC)

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_____ programming language was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in the early 1980s at Bell Laboratories.

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C++

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_____ is a JavaScript library that simplifies JavaScript programming by making it easier to manipulate a web page’s elements and interact with servers in a portable manner.

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jQuery

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(T/F) Client-side scripts often can access the server’s file-directory structure.

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(False) server-side scripts.

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_____ is the next-generation Internet Protocol that features built-in security and a new addressing scheme, significantly expanding the number of addresses available.

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IPv6

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The level of computer language most convenient for you to write programs quickly and easily is ___-____ language.

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high-level

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_______ is the standard for transferring encrypted data on the web.

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HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)

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The only language that a computer directly understands is called the computer’s

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machine language.

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use technologies similar to WAN’s but cover a small geological area

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MAN’s ( metropolitan area network)

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An _____ is a numerical value that uniquely identifies the server on the Internet.

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IP (Internet Protocol) address

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three main categories of networks

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LAN (local area network) WAN (wide area network) & MAN (Metropolitan Area network)

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(T/F) HTML5 (HyperText Markup Language 5) is a high-level programming language designed to specify the content and structure of Web pages in a portable manner.

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(False) HTML is a Markup Language

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network that is very common and are type found in most homes

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Bottom Tier of a web-based application
maintains the application's data and typically stores data in a relational database management system.
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When a network combines two or more types of networks topologies in its structure
hybrid
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the very first computer networks were jokingly referred to as
sneaker nets
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which network topologies use a single main cable called a backbone
Bus and a ring
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What type of computer language uses English like appreciations for machine hand language instructions?
Assembly language
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The acronym TCP/IP stands for _____ \_\_\_\_/\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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The process of analyzing and designing a system from an object-oriented point of view is called \_\_\_\_-\_\_\_\_ ____ & \_\_\_\_.
object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD)
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The level of computer language at is most convenient for you to write programs quickly and easily is
High-Level Programming Language.
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\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ founded an organization-called the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C)-devoted to developing nonproprietary, interoperable technologies for the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee
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The only language a computer can directly understand is that the computer's _____ \_\_\_\_\_.
machine language.
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Browsers often _____ web pages for quick reloading.
cache
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A _____ contains information that directs a browser to the resource that the user wishes to access: make such resources available to web clients.
URL
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In object oriented programming languages, we create _____ to house the set of methods that perform tasks.
classes
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Top Tier of a web-based application
or client tier, is the application's user interface, which gathers input and displays output.
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a network that is limited to just one building or at the most tow or three in close proximity
LAN
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\_\_\_\_\_ _____ is a type of computer language that uses English-like abbreviations for machine-language instructions.
Assembly languages
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most modern LAN follow some sort of ______ topology
star
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Computers process data under the control sets of instructions called computer \_\_\_\_\_.
programs
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\_\_\_\_\_ are reusable software components that model items in the real world.
Objects
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The two most common HTTP request types are _____ and \_\_\_\_\_.
get, post
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a ring topology uses a ________ to control the flow of the data on the network
token
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the infrastructure that the world wide web and other services reside on is called
internet
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With __________ development, individuals and companies contribute their efforts in developing, maintaining, and evolving software in exchange for the right to use that software for their own purposes, typically at no charge.
open-source
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(T/F) Keeping page styling together with the page content and structure enables you to easily change the look and feel of the pages on an entire website, or a portion of a website.
(False). By separating page styling from page content and structure, you can change the look and feel of the pages on an entire website, or a portion of a website, simply by swapping out one style sheet for another.
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the physical shape of a network is refereed as the network's
physical topology
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HTML documents normally contain the \_\_\_\_\_, which, when clicked, load a specified web document.
frameset
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\_\_\_\_\_ is a smartphone operating system based on the Linux kernel and Java.
Android
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The programs that translate high-level language programs into machine language are called \_\_\_\_\_.
compilers
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network in a network that has one central server that controls access to it and most common in businesss
client/server
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The ______ allows computer users to locate and view multimedia-based documents on almost any subject over the Internet.
World Wide Web
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\_\_\_\_\_ identify resources on the Internet.
URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers)
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refers to shape of the path the data follows as it moves through the network
logical topology

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