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What is the Internet Review

Answer the following questions to check your understanding of the Internet portion or the tutorial. You will receive feedback on if your answer is correct. If necessary, go back to the What is the Internet? tutorial to review.

1. Which answer best describes the Internet?

worldwide
noncommercial
freely accessible network of networks
All of the above

2. Domain Name Service (DNS) address:

Replaces IP numbers with words to make it easier to remember
Allows users to upload files to a computer
Is a numeric value
Allows users to exchange data with other companies on the Internet

3. A Top-Level Domain (TLD) that indicates a government site is:

.com
.org
.gov
.edu

4. The Internet began in:

1950
1969
1984
1990

5. Web sites that are located in Great Britain usually have the Top-Level Domain of:

.uk
.au
.fr
None of the above

You are now finished with What is the Internet? portion of the Introduction to the Web Tutorial. You should continue to the next portion - What is the Web?

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Last Updated 7/23/03