Internet Services and Tools Quiz

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1. NNTP stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Netnews Transfer Protocol
2. SSH stands for _____________   _____________. Answer Secure Shell or Secure Socket Shell
3. SCP stands for _____________   _____________. Answer Secure Copy
4. FTP stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer File Transfer Protocol
5. VNC stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Virtual Network Computing
6. LDAP stands for _____________   _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
7. CVS stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Concurrent Versioning System
8. P2P stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Peer-to-peer
9. XP stands for _____________   _____________. Answer Extreme Programming
10. SaaS stands for _____________   _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Software as a Service
11. RAD stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Rapid Application Development
12. GPL stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer General Public License
13. BSD stands for _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer Berkeley Software Distribution
14. EULA stands for _____________   _____________   _____________   _____________. Answer End User License Agreement
15. TCP/IP stands for _____________   _____________   _____________   _____________   /   _____________   _____________. Answer Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

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16. Explain briefly what TCP/IP is. Answer Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is the standard communications protocol that devices on the Internet use to communicate with each other.
17. Explain briefly what netnews is. Answer Netnews is a distributed bulletin board system with many thousands of newsgroups.
18. Briefly explain how list servers work. Answer List servers send a message out to all members of a group via email. Users can often send an email to the list server to automatically subscribe and unsubscribe to the list server. Authorized users are allowed to send messages to the whole group. Sometimes all members of the group are authorized to send messages to everyone in the group just by sending an email to the list server.
19. Describe how telnet and SSH are similar and how they are different. Answer Both telnet and SSH allow you to set up a remote text connection to a server. Unlike telnet, SSH is encrypted. This is why telnet is almost never used any more to communicate across the Internet.
20. What are FTP and SCP used for? Answer They are used to transfer files between computers.
21. What is source code? Answer Source code is the original program that a programmer writes. It is human readable.
22. What is meant by the term "fork"? Answer A fork is when a duplicate of a project is created and used to create a new project with modifications.
23. What is meant by the term "open source"? Answer Open source means that the original source code of an application is freely available.
24. What is meant by dual licensed? Answer Dual licensed means that an application is available with a choice of at least two different software licenses.
25. What is meant by "software as a service"? Answer Software as a service refers to applications that are installed on a server and made available to clients via remote access over the Internet.
26. What was the original intent of patents? Answer The original purpose was to encourage innovation by giving inventors a monopoly over their invention for a short period of time (usually twenty years). In return for this monopoly, the details of the invention must be publicly disclosed and the invention becomes publicly available after the monopoly period.
27. What are some current disadvantages of patents? Answer Among the disadvantages are that patents are currently being used to stifle competition, patents are being given for frivolous and/or obvious ideas, frivolous patents are raising prices because it is often easier to pay licensing fees rather than fight a bad patent, and patents are being used to stifle innovation.
28. What are version control applications used for? Answer They are used to allow multiple users to keep track of multiple versions of source code. They allow users to modify documents, merge changes from multiple users, and roll back any changes that were made to previous versions.