Review for Exam 1

Layout of the Test

• Multiple Guess, Fill in the Blank - (15 questions - 2 points each - 30 points total)
• Short Answer - (8 questions - 5 points each - 40 points total)
• Long Answer - (2 questions - 10 points each - 20 points total)
• HTML Question - (1 question - 10 points each - 10 points total)
• Bonus Question - (1 question - 2 points)

Material you shoud review

• The people involved with the development of the Internet
• HTML concepts (text, markup, appearance/content tags, imprecise)
• HTML tags (text formatting, tables, lists, images, links)
• Terms and Acronyms which we have discussed
• Internet Infrastructure (physical/logical layer, backbone, peering, NAP)
• Tracing a request from end to end
• How routing works
• DNS (names, TLDs, breakdown)
• Technical problems with the Internet
• Internet Services (mail, news, web, protocols of each)
• Newsgroups (posting conventions, name breakdown, personalities)
• Shortcomings of HTML, virtues of XML
• The virtue of text, ASCII vs. Unicode

Free Advice

• Don't leave any questions blank. Remember, partial credit is better than no credit at all.

• On the short-answer and mini-essay questions, I will give you credit for giving me a CORRECT and COMPLETE answer, but not necessarily for a LONG answer. Remember, brevity is golden.

• Always answer the bonus question. You're not going to lose any points even if you get it wrong, and I get a big kick from reading your answers.