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The global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet Protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet

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It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies.

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Internet

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What does DARPA stands for?

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Defense Advanced Research Project Agency

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What is ARPANET?

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Advanced Research Project Agency Network

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a packet-switching network developed in 1972 that had many of the attributes of a modern computer network. ___________ was developed in France based on ARPANET after a group of French delegates were introduced to the technology on a visit to the United States.

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Cyclades (Scientific Network)

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What is RAND Corporation?

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Research and Development Military Network

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What is NPL?

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National Physical Laboratory

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It is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet.

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Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

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It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet).

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Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

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Who proposed a concept of fault tolerance network based on packet switching. This idea was rejected by AT & T, the main telecommunication provider of the US?

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Paul Baran

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When did Paul Baran proposed a concept of fault tolerance network based on packet switching.

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1960

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What project was launched by the US Department of the Defence. The first network had four nodes: UCLA, UCSB, Standford Research Insitute and University of Utah

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ARPANET

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When was ARPANET project launched?

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1969

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When did ARPANET expanded to include about 40 nodes?

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1972

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When did the main protocol for the internet, that TCP/IP, was redesigned, to enable LAN to be incorporated into ARPANET?

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1974

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When was TCP/IP was only accepted as the protocol for ARPANET

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1983

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The management of ARPANET was later transferred to ____________

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National Science Foundation (NSF)

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What did NSF renamed ARPNET to?

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National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET)

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Access to the Internet is made through _________.

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Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

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What are the uses of internet?

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Electronic Mail
Phone Call
Social Media
Gaming
Cloud Computing
Research
E-Learning
E-commerce

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It is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or
other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.

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Domain name system

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Meaning of the generic domain name “com”

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Commercial Organization

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Meaning of the generic domain name “edu”

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Educational Institution

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Meaning of the generic domain name “gov”I

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Government Institution

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Meaning of the generic domain name "int"
International Organization
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Meaning of the generic domain name "mil"
Military Group
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Meaning of the generic domain name "net"
Network Support Centre
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Meaning of the generic domain name "org"
Other Organization
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It is one of the most important Internet applications.
World Wide Web (WWW)
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It provides a universally accepted standard for storing, retrieving, formatting and displaying of documents.
World Wide Web (WWW)
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The format of web documents is based on a standard _________.
Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML)
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It is based on client-server concept
World Wide Web (WWW)
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It store web documents, while web clients retrieve web documents
Web servers
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All web pages related to a particular organization or a particular person are known as a _________
Website
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What are the 3 Uniform Resource Locator
Method Host Path
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It is a Uniform Resource Locator that is the application layer protocol used to retrieve a document
Method
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It is a Uniform Resource Locator that is the domain name for the web server. By convention, the domain names for the web servers begin with www.
Host
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It is a Uniform Resource Locator that is the pathname of the file where the document is located.
Path
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It is prepared by using a specialized markup language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).
Webpages
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This language contains markup that determines how documents are to be formatted.
Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML)
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Users can access the web through ____________.
Web Browsers
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A web browser is a software application that is capable of communicating with __________
Web Servers
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It allows users to browse the web by giving the appropriate URL.
Web Browsers
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It is a private network that uses Internet services and TCP/IP protocols. It is basically a private Internet.
Intranet
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It is a network established between a number of organizations. Through ____________, different organizations can communicate between each other. It also uses Internet services and TCP/IP protocols.
Extranet
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It is the way in which an organizations IT infrastructure is organized and integrated.
Computing Environment
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a computer in a network that provide services
Server
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a computer in a network that uses the service provided by the server
Client
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What are the types of computing environment
Enterprise-wide Computing Internet Computing
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In this environment, servers and clients are connected to a local network within an enterprise.
Enterprise-wide Computing
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In this environment, computers are not only linked to other computers within an organisation, they are now linked to other computers in the whole world through the Internet
Internet Computing
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It is a system of writing for expressing numbers.
Number System
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It is the mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set by using digits or other symbols in a consistent manner.
Number System
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It provides a unique representation to every number and represents the arithmetic and algebraic structure of the figures.
Number System
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It also allows us to operate arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, and division.
Number System
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What are the types of number system
Binary Number System Decimal Number System Octal Number System Hexadecimal Number System
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It uses 2 digits to encode a number
Binary Number System
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It has base 10 because it uses ten digits from 0 to 9.
Decimal Number System
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In this number system, the positions successive to the left of the decimal point represent units, tens, hundreds, thousands and so on.
Decimal Number System
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are the numbers which have base 8.
Octal Number System
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It is represented as N8.
Octal Number System
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It uses the digits 0,1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 to represent the numbers in this number system.
Octal Number System
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This numbering system is a numbering system which uses 16 different numerals
Hexadecimal Number System
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the Base 16 Numbering System Hexadecimal or "__________"
Hex
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We saw that decimal used ten numerals from 0 to 9. It expands on this by adding six more, the capital letters A, B, C, D, E and F.
Hexadecimal Number System

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