Monday,
October 29, 2001
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Compuquiz —
55
1.What do we call a
combination of hardware and software that separates a LAN into two or
more parts for security purposes?
2. Which word has come
to refer to any kind of derogatory comment no matter how witless or
crude on the Net?
3. An online discussion
that degenerates into a series of personal attacks against the debators,
rather than discussion of their positions is popularly known as what?
4.What is acronym for
the special way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of
retrieving and/or sending files?
5.A hardware or
software set-up that translates between two dissimilar protocols is
technically called what?
6.Name the widely
successful method of making menus of material available over the
Internet. Hint: It has been largely supplanted by Hypertext.
7.A single request from
a Web browser for a single item from a Web server is called what?
8.Any computer on a
network that is a repository for services available to other computers
on the network is known as?
9.What do you
understand by the acronym IMHO?
10.What do we call a
private network inside a company or organisation that uses the same
kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet but that is
only for internal use?
Answers to Compuquiz 53
1.Bulletin Board System
2.Binhex (BINary
HEXadecimal)
3.Binary DigIT
4.Bitnet
5.Certificate Authority
6.cgi-bin
7.Because once upon a
time, most programs were referred to as "binaries".
8.Digerati
9.Fiber Distributed
Data Interface
10.Finger
The following are the
winners of Compuquiz 53
1. Ramesh K. Chopra,
Panchkula
2. Vikas Pahuja,
Gurgaon
3. Rajkumari,
Kurukshetra
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