Computer Internet Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The country with no suffix for its domain names is the United States of America.

Because the Internet began in the United States, its sites traditionally use the generic top-level domains such as .com, .gov, .edu and .mil without a country code. The country code .us exists but is little used.

India (.in), Australia (.au) and Japan (.jp) use their country-code suffixes, often combined with a second level such as .gov.in or .co.jp.

Answer: B

The answer is Negotiation.

The standard marketing mix consists of the four Ps: Product, Price, Place and Promotion. Online sellers plan their strategy around the same elements, setting fixed prices for products displayed and promoted on the web.

Negotiation, haggling over price with each buyer, is not part of the marketing mix and is not a usual strategy in internet trade, where prices are listed and transactions are automated.

Answer: B

CGI creates and handles dynamic documents.

The Common Gateway Interface is a standard that lets a web server run an external program, such as a script in Perl, Python or C, and send its output back to the browser. Because the page is generated at the moment of the request, its content can change with user input or data, for example search results or form responses. Such pages are called dynamic documents.

Static documents are fixed files sent unchanged by the server and need no CGI. 'Active' documents are programs, such as applets, that run on the client side, and 'original' is not a category of web document.

Answer: A

Among the options, procurement is a support activity.

Michael Porter's value chain divides a firm's activities into primary activities, which directly create and deliver the product (inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales, and service), and support activities, which help the primary ones (firm infrastructure, human resource management, technology development and procurement).

Procurement, the purchasing of inputs, is therefore a support activity. Marketing and sales, operations and inbound logistics are all primary activities in Porter's model, in e-commerce as elsewhere.

Answer: D

LinkedIn's primary focus is career-oriented social networking.

LinkedIn, launched in 2003 and owned by Microsoft since 2016, is a professional networking platform. Users build profiles that work as online CVs, connect with colleagues and employers, look for jobs, and share professional content. Recruiters and companies use it to find and approach candidates.

Personal blogging is associated with platforms such as Blogger or WordPress, video creation with YouTube, and online gaming with gaming platforms; none of these is LinkedIn's main purpose, even though it allows posts and articles.

Answer: C

The professional networking site is LinkedIn.

Launched in 2003 and owned by Microsoft since 2016, LinkedIn is designed for professional networking: users post career profiles, connect with colleagues, look for jobs and recruit staff.

Facebook and MySpace are general social networks for friends and personal sharing, and WhatsApp is a messaging application. None is aimed specifically at professional and business connections.

Answer: C

CSS is used for designing webpages.

HTML provides the structure and content of a webpage, and Cascading Style Sheets control its presentation: colours, fonts, layout, spacing and how the page adapts to different screens. Separating style from content makes pages easier to design and maintain.

CSS does not search for pages, add them to a server or encrypt them; encryption is the job of protocols such as HTTPS (TLS).

Answer: A

Web pages are designed with Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).

HTML is the standard markup language for web pages: its tags describe headings, paragraphs, links, images and other structure in a form that any browser on any computer can read and display in the same way.

A URL is the address of a resource on the web, HTTP is the protocol that transfers pages between server and browser, and the Internet of Things is the network of connected devices. None of them is used to design the page itself.

Answer: D

The one that is not a social networking platform is Google.

Google is a search engine (and the company behind many other services); it lets users find information but is not itself a platform for building a network of contacts and sharing posts. Its own social network, Google+, was shut down in 2019.

LinkedIn (printed 'Linkdin') is a professional networking site, Reddit a community discussion platform, and Instagram a photo and video sharing network, so all three are social networking platforms.

Answer: C

It is called the World Wide Web.

The World Wide Web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989, is the collection of linked documents and other resources (web pages) stored on computers around the world and reached through the Internet. Pages are identified by URLs, linked to one another by hyperlinks and transferred by the HTTP protocol.

A web server is the program or computer that stores and delivers web pages, only one part of the system. 'Web store' usually means an online shop, and 'web information' is not a technical term for the whole collection.