Email and Personal Information Managers Quiz

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  1. SMTP stands for _____________   _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  2. IMAP stands for _____________   _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Internet Message Access Protocol
  3. POP stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Post Office Protocol
  4. PGP stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Pretty Good Privacy
  5. GPG stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Gnu Privacy Guard
  6. PIM stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Personal Information Manager
  7. PDA stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Personal Digital Assistant
  8. WAP stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Wireless Application Protocol (or Wireless Access Point)
  9. WML stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Wireless Markup Language
  10. MTA stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Mail Transfer Agent
  11. MDA stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Mail Delivery Agent
  12. MUA stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Mail User Agent
  13. MIME stands for _____________   _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Multipart Internet Mail Extensions
  14. S/MIME stands for _____________   _____________   _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Secure Multipart Internet Mail Extensions

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  15. What is an email signature? Answer It is a small file which is automatically included at the end of emails being sent.
  16. What is netiquette? Answer Netiquette is an informal set of rules for how to communicate politely on the Internet.
  17. What Internet service uses SMTP, POP, and IMAP? Answer Email uses SMTP, POP, and IMAP.
  18. What is the difference between SMTP and POP? Answer SMTP is used for sending email while POP is used for receiving/downloading email.
  19. What is the difference between IMAP and POP? Answer POP and IMAP are both used for receiving/downloading email. IMAP can also let a client view email subject lines remotely, create folders on the email server, organize email on the server, and leave email stored on the server.
  20. Describe what PGP and GPG are for and how they differ. Answer Both are used to encrypt and decrypt messages, but GPG is a non-commercial, open source application, while PGP is largely a commercial, proprietary application.
  21. What is MIME used for? Answer It is used to specify how a particular file should be handled. It is used in the header files of web documents and with email to specify the document types of the attachments.
  22. What is CAPTCHA used for? Answer CAPTCHA is used to try to prove that a human rather than software is sending data.
  23. Describe the difference between CC and BCC. Answer Both contain a list of email addresses to send a message to. The CC addresses are seen by everyone receiving the email, but the BCC addresses are not seen.
  24. What is meant by the term flaming? Answer It means being rude and confrontational in your Internet communication, often gratuitously.
  25. What is meant by the term shouting? Answer It refers to using all caps in an Internet communication, which is considered similar to shouting in traditional conversations.
  26. What is a smilie/emoticon? Answer It was originally used to refer to ASCII character combinations added to Internet documents to help convey feeling by creating a crude graphic image, often by looking at the string sideways. The most famous example is the smiling face :) Recently, many applications have been adding graphical equivalents.
  27. What is ASCII art? Answer It refers to creating pictures using only ASCII characters.
  28. What is the difference between forwarding and replying to an email? Answer Replying sends a message back to the original sender of an email, whereas forwarding sends a received email to a third party.
  29. What is the difference between using reply and reply all? Answer Replying sends a message back to the original sender of an email, whereas using reply all sends the response to the original sender and everyone listed on the CC list.
  30. Explain what a gateway is. Answer A gateway is a device that connects two networks that use different protocol.
  31. What are S/MIME and MIME used for? Answer MIME and S/MIME are used for adding attachments to email.
  32. What is the difference between S/MIME and MIME? Answer S/MIME is an encrypted (secure) version of MIME.