| Introduction to the Internet |
Computer Science 1604
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Final Exam Review
The final will consist of approximately 50 multiple choice questions. Most of the exam questions will come from the online course notes, quiz material, and text. Some questions may be taken from the linked WWW documents.
Possible Exam Topics
- Common Computer Applications: know the relationship and differences between text editors, text formatters, and word processors; know the standard data grouping terminology used in databases; know how a spreadsheet is used to model an accounting ledger. For each of the common applications be able to recognize its underlying data orgranization.
- File System Types: know the difference between flat file - hierarchical file systems and character command driven - graphical event driven interfaces.
- Simple Email: know how to send & receive messages using your email client.
- Text File Formats: know the three most common types & their primary usage.
- Adobe Acrobat: be able to distinguish the differences between Adobe Acrobat documents and HTML (Web), documents.
- Graphic/Image File Formats: know the 2 types of incorporated compression; the 2 representation methods (and how they store/representation a graphic/image); be able to list the standard system independent formats and their primary characteristic.
- Hypermedia/Multimedia: be able to define and explain Hypertext/Hypermedia/Multimedia.
- Digital Audio: know the steps involved in converting natural sound into digital audio and the storage requirements.
- Digital Video: know the conversion steps related to digital audio, compression algorithms (actually file formats), and the storage requirements.
- Internet/WWW: know what each of these encompasses and their relationship to one another. Be able to recgonize valid and invalid URL's
- E-Mail: know about the different protocols e-mail uses. Be able to recgonize valid and invalid e-mail addresses. Know the type of communication email provides.
- MIME: distinguish between regular email and mime messages.
- FTP: define; know the name of the underlying protocol; how to connect remote/local sites; the transfer modes; navigation, uploading/downloading of files.
- Gopher: know the browsing system used in gopher; the technique for storing frequented gopher locations; the prupose for which gopher was originally designed; how veronica relates to gopher space and the limitations of the system.
- Telnet: understand the type of communication(s) allowed with Telnet; be able to make a Telnet connection.
- File Compression: relationship between compression of Data/Executable (binary) Files - Graphic/Image Files.
- Network (USENET) News Groups: understand how the communication differs from email; the compostion of usenet news group names and the common operations possible with newsgroup reader client programs.
- HTML: relationship to word processor languages; general tag specification; and know how links are embedded in an html file and displayed in a WWW browser (eg., Netscape, Internet Explorer).
- Client Side Image Maps: be able to compose a client side image map and explain the HTML tags used to specify a client side image map.
- Advanced GIFs: be able to recognize and apply the advanced features, (transparency, Interlacing and Animation, of the GIF format.
- Commercial Networks: know the common features; common internet connection; and the common commercial networks.
- Listserv: explain what listserv provides; know how it relates to usenet news groups; the type of communication it provides in relation to email.
- User Location Tools: know the different tools available; when they should be used and their limitations.
- IRC: know the type of communication IRC provides; the organization of IRC.
- Digital Libraries: be able to define; know their relationship to traditional libraries; the 6 types of document markup approaches in electronic publishing; the 2 views of information retrieval; the boolean model of information retrieval; and topics involved in digital library principles.
- Advanced Systems: know who developed the first system; be able to list (not discuss or explain), the different approaches.
Topics NOT on the Final Exam
- Preliminary Information: Getting Connected & PID Information.
- Specific System Dependent Graphic/Image File Formats.
- Compression: Defacto System Compression Standards
- Specific Network (Usenet) News Group Reader Clients
- Specific Electronic Journals & Electronic Books
- Specific Bitnet Commands
- Specific Listserv Commands
- Server Side Image Maps, Table Image maps
- UUCP
- Specific IRC Commands
- Digital Libraries: CORE Project, NSF/ARPA/NASA Research on Digital Libraries;
- Advanced Systems: Current systems on WWW & other discussed systems not on WWW.
Disclaimer
Students are warned not to interpret this study guide in a strict literal sense. This guide may contain slight inaccuracies. While I have attempted to describe the topics included and omitted on/from the final in as straightforward manner as possible, your interpretion may differ from my own. Be advised that if you are in doubt about the inclusion of a topic on the final then you should study it and consider it as possible test material.