Web Browsers, Web Addresses and Website Question Bank

Web Browsers and Web Addresses

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. Which software browse the Internet in a systematic manner?
   1. Web crawler
   2. Web browser
   3. Indexing software
   4. Search algorithm

Ans. 1

2. Shri wants to search about computer vendor in Meerut excluding Dell category. Which of the following search query best suits his requirements?
   1. Computer vendor Meerut Dell
   2. Computer vendor Meerut not Dell
   3. Computer vendor + Meerut – Dell
   4. Computer vendor + Meerut + Dell

Ans. 3

3. A software that searches through a database of Web pages for particular information is known as
   1. domain
   2. Internet
   3. modem
   4. search engine

Ans. 4

4. Which of the following is not a legal domain in context of web address?
   1. edu
   2. com
   3. tv
   4. up

Ans. 4

5. When you copy a Web page or a file from a server to your local computer, this process is called
   1. conferencing
   2. downloading
   3. Blogging
   4. Telnet

Ans. 2

6. Browsing the internet is also called as
   1. Social Networking
   2. Chatting
   3. Blogging
   4. Surfing

Ans. 4

7. In Internet Protocol (IP), data is organised in the form of
   1. Bundles
   2. Packets
   3. Switches
   4. Parts

Ans. 2

8. An IPv4 address is a string of ________ numbers separated by periods.
   1. 3
   2. 4
   3. 2
   4. 5

Ans. 2

9. A domain name ending with .org belongs to
   1. educational institution
   2. organisation
   3. Government
   4. commercial business

Ans. 2

10. Domain names always have two or more parts, separated by
    1. commas
    2. periods or dots
    3. semicolon
    4. slash

Ans. 2

11. Some popular browser are
    1. Microsoft
    2. Google
    3. Facebook
    4. All of the above

Ans. 2

12. Set of rules that govern data communication is called as  
    1. Internet
    2. HTTP
    3. HTML
    4. Protocol

Ans. 4

13. Which protocol is used in most URL addresses?
    1. HTML
    2. HTP
    3. HTTP
    4. HLINK

Ans. 3

14. Which communication protocol is used by the Internet?           
    1. TCP/IP
    2. WWW
    3. HTML
    4. W3C

Ans. 1

15. E-mail uses a protocol known as
    1. IMAP
    2. POP3
    3. SMTP
    4. All of the above

Ans. 4

16. Google Chrome is an example of
    1. Web browser
    2. Web server
    3. HTTP
    4. WWW

Ans. 1

17. DNS converts the domain name into    
    1. TCP/IP
    2. IP address
    3. Internet name
    4. HTTP

Ans. 2

18. URL stands for
    1. Uniform Resource Locator
    2. Uniform Resource Location
    3. Uniformly Resource Location
    4. None of the above

Ans. 1

19. Which of these is not a part of the URL?
    1. IP address
    2. Protocol
    3. Domain Name
    4. Path

Ans. 1

20. _________ is an example of text-based browser.
    1. Mozilla Firefox
    2. Lynx
    3. Internet Explorer
    4. All of these

Ans. 2

21. Combination of multimedia and hyperlink is called
    1. Hypermedia
    2. E-mail
    3. hypertext
    4. None of these

Ans. 3

State whether the following statements are true or false:

1. Net Surfing is downloading content on your local computer.              

Ans. False

2. Bing is used to search for available Internet connections.              

Ans. False

3. Downloading of files means transferring files from host computer to the Internet. 

Ans. False

4. Bots and crawlers perform the same function

Ans. True           

5. If the search query is to be treated as a single phrase, we can use quotes or put ‘-‘ in between the words.

Ans. True           

6. Edge is a Web browser.

Ans. True           

7. Domain name .mil describes military address.

Ans. True           

8. POP stands for Post Office Protocol.

Ans. True           

9. An IP address is a unique identification for each computer

Ans. True           

Fill in the blanks:

1. Information is retrieved from Internet using a software called ________ .

Ans. browsers

2. Search engines use _________ to comb the internet                                               

Ans. Spider or web crawler or Bots or Agents

3. Making a copy of file or document from a web page to your local computer is called __________                                    

Ans. downloading

4. Firefox is an example of a _________ .                                                                        

Ans. search engine

5. _________ Software is used by search engines to extract information from the web and store it in the database.                                                    

Ans. Indexing

6. We use ________ sign in a search query to specify that a word must NOT appear in the query result.                      

Ans. minus (-)

7. The _________ are documents that use HTTP.                      

Ans. Webpages

8. Safari is a Web browser developed by ________                                         

Ans. Apple

9. The protocol used by WWW is _________                                    

Ans. HTTP

10. Domain name for non profit organizations is typically ________

Ans. .org

11. _______ converts domain names into ip addresses                                    

Ans. DNS (Domain Name System)