Big Idea 4 Extra Questions

Bandwidth is usually measured in

• bits per second

• bytes per second

• KB per second

• MB per second

Answer explanation

Bandwidth is measured in bits per second (bps).

A collection of interlinked website documents viewed with a web browser by typing in an address is called

• The Interent

• routing

• bandwidth

• The World Wide Web

Answer explanation

Don't confuse the Internet and The World Wide Web. A collection of interlinked website documents viewed with a web browser by typing in an address is The World Wide Web. The Internet is more general and it includes email, how computers communicate, and file transfers.

The maximum amount of data that can be sent in a fixed amount of time is called

• scalability

• routing

• bandwidth

• parallel computing

Answer explanation

The maximum amount of data that can be sent in a fixed amount of time is bandwidth. For digital data this is measured in bits per second. The higher the bandwidth the better because the data will travel faster.

Which of the following are part of the four broad categories of failure

• hardware

• operational

• weather

• All of the above

Answer explanation

The four broad categories of failure include: hardware failure, operational failure, weather, and cyberattacks.

What does it mean when the protocols on the Internet are open?

• The protocols are not owned by any computer

• The protocols are not operating system dependent

• The protocols are designed using open source programming languages

• The protocols are not dependent on a specific hardware device

Answer explanation

Open Internet protocol standards allow anyone to set up a service online suing the appropriate and established protocol; no permission is required from anyone else to make it available to everyone on the Internet. While answer B, C, and may be true, it is not why they are called open stanards.