1. Your Internet Service Provider serves all of the following functions except _________.
A. provides you with a legitimate Internet address
B. provides you a gateway to the Internet
C. pays access fees to communication carriers to help pay for the Internet
D. collects money from its customers for its services
E. allows you to access a personal area network (PAN)
2. Since companies do not know precisely how much demand will be placed on their computing resources in the future, an attractive element of using the cloud is the fact that it is ________.
A. flexible
B. elastic
C. variable
D. unpredictable
E. Dynamic
3. Which of the following is true about a VPN?
A. It uses private networks instead of the public network.
B. It encrypts messages to ensure secure transmissions.
C. It appears as a secure connection, though it is not.
D. It does not provide users with remote access.
E. The actual internal LAN addresses are sent in the VPN messages on the Internet.
4. On a typical e-commerce Web site, a component called the ________ contains programs that obtain product data from a database, manage the shopping cart, and coordinate the checkout process.
A. commerce server
B. Web browser
C. database management system
D. Web server
E. Internet server
5. A wireless protocol that is becoming ever more common as everyday objects become "smart" devices is _________.
A. Redhat
B. Jetblack
C. Greenline
D. Bluetooth
E. Whitehot