CS456/556 - Internet Services Midterm Exam Study Guide

Test Format -

• Take-home (Questions will be posted on Monday, October 8, 2001 before 5 p.m.; all answers must be e-mailed by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 to summers_wayne@ColumbusState.edu)
• Hands-on Exercises (50 pts)
• Remote log-in (including questions using simple Unix commands) - 10 pts.
• E-mail - 5 pts.
• FTP - 5 pts.
• Bulletin Board - 5 pts.
• TCP/IP Utilities (ping, traceroute, nslookup) - 5 pts.
• Web page (20 pts) [you may use any software you wish to create the page, but points will be deducted for sloppy HTML]
• images
• links
• lists
• tables
• frames
• Short Answer and Essay Questions (30 pts)
• material from The Internet Book
• material from Traveler's Guide to the Internet book
• lab assignments
• general questions about the Internet in today's world
• Online Multiple Choice (20 pts) - Questions will be available by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 and must be completed by 6:00 p.m. MDT - You will have one hours to answer the questions
• material from The Internet Book
• material from Traveler's Guide to the Internet book
• lab assignments
• general questions about the Internet in today's world

Study Material

The INTERNET Book

1. Chapter 1 - The Internet Has Arrived
2. Chapter 2 - Getting Started: Hands-On Experience
PART I    Introduction To Networking
3. Chapter 3 - Telephones Everywhere
4. Chapter 4 - The World Was Once Analog
5. Chapter 5 - The Once and Future Digital Network
6. Chapter 6 - Basic Communications
7. Chapter 7 - The Local Area Network Arrives
PART II    Brief History Of The Internet
8. Chapter 8 - Internet: The Early Years
9. Chapter 9 - A Decade of Incredible Growth
10. Chapter 10 - The Global Internet
11. Chapter 11 - A Global Information Infrastructure
PART III    How The Internet Works
12. Chapter 12 - Packet Switching
13. Chapter 13 - Internet: A Network of Networks
14. Chapter 14 - ISPs And Network Connections
15. Chapter 15 - IP: Software To Create A Virtual Network
16. Chapter 16 - TCP: Software For Reliable Communications
17. Chapter 17 - Clients + Servers = Distributed Computing
PART IV    Services Available on The Internet
18. Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail
19. Chapter 21 - Bulletin Board Services (Network News)
20. Chapter 22 - Browsing The World Wide Web
21. Chapter 23 - World Wide Web Documents (HTML)
22. Chapter 24 - Advanced Web Technologies
23. Chapter 25 - Automated Web Search (Search engines)
24. Chapter 27 - Faxes and Files (FTP)
25. Chapter 28 - Remote Login and Remote Desktops (TELNET)
26. Study Guide for Book
27. Traveler's Guide to the Internet
28. Creating an HTML Document
29. Guides and Tools to Writing HTML Documents
30. Unix Commands

Terms / Concepts

Created on ... April 16, 2001