Internet test

What are the most difficult questions you could ask on a test about the Internet?

(Please post your answers later if no one else posts a reasonable answer to your question(s)).

Q: Does TCP establish a connection before it communicates, or is it a connectionless protocol?

Q: What subdirectory are CGI scripts stored on a Unix / Linux system?

Q; What is a subnet mask?

Q. Is Bill Gates *really * going to send you money if you forward this to all of your friends?

Q: Do all of ccwaterback’s threads suck this bad?

Scenario: Three men sitting in a parking lot at a national home improvement center use a homemade antenna on the roof of their car to gain access into the corporate network through an unsecured Wireless LAN. They are able to access finance department servers at the corporate headquarters and are ultimately arrested by FBI investigators.

Referring to the scenario above, under what Federal Law is it likely they will be prosecuted?

Choice 1 USA Patriot Act of 2001

Choice 2 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986

Choice 3 Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986

Choice 4 Financial Modernization Act (GLBA)

Choice 5 HIPAA

The Network layer of the OSI reference model is responsible for which one of the following aspects of network communication?

Choice 1 Inserting protocol addresses

Choice 2 Determining port number

Choice 3 Encrypting the data

Choice 4 Translating data representation

Choice 5 Inserting check points in the data stream

Scenario: Alice would like to send Bob a private message using a symmetric cryptography algorithm.

Referring to the scenario above, what key does Alice use to encrypt the message?

Choice 1 Alice’s public key

Choice 2 Alice’s private key

Choice 3 Bob’s public key

Choice 4 Bob’s private key

Choice 5 Shared secret key

Why did a co-worker of mine scream then start crying when I closed her Excel spreadsheet without saving it?

What, is, the Internet?

  1. a) How many web pages are available via the Internet?

    b) List them.

In alphabetical order :smiley:

By domain number.

Who invented the internet?

How many are there?

:smiley:

Some say Bill Gates (I’m serious), but we all know it was Al Gore. :smiley:

But here’s the straight dope:

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

Whew, that took awhile. Next question?

http://www.1112.net/lastpage.html

By IP :stuck_out_tongue:

Ah, here’s one with a real, practical use:

How do you find out who’s actually responsible for a website?