Monday, October 8, 2001		Compuquiz

Compuquiz — 52

1. What does ADN (Advanced Digital Network) usually refer to?

2. What does the acronym ADSL refer to?

3. What is the relevance of 'Anonymous' in the term Anonymous FTP?

4. How do Applets differ from full-fledged Java applications?

5. Name the tool (software) for finding files stored on anonymous FTP sites.

6. Name the precursor to the Internet developed in the late 60's and early 70's by the US Department of Defence as an experiment in wide-area-networking.

7. Name the de facto world-wide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, etc.

8. What do you understand by Backbone in terms of networking?

9. What is the common measure for bandwidth?

10. In common usage what does the baud rate of a modem mean?

1.The Net

2.Hacker

3.The Pirates of Silicon valley

4.You've Got Mail

5.Startup.com

6.Business to business

7.Business to Consumer

8.Business to Government

9.Government to Consumer

10.Consumer to Consumer

1.Joginder Kumar, Kartarpur

2.Kartika Bhardwaj, New Delhi

3.Dimple, Jalandhar

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