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Tutorial Six: FTP and Downloading Programs

Chapter 6 Quiz Masters:

Vickie Geuther ( ) [Text Input]

John Taylor (jtaylor@hccfl.edu) [Consultant]


Multiple Choice [One Answer Only]

Question 1

Like any Window program, an FTP client program has

a) a menu bar.
b) one or more toolbars.
c) a status bar.
d) Both A and B


Question 2

To ________ a file means to receive on your computer a file from another computer.

a) download
b) upload
c) put
d) retrieve


Question 3

________ is one of several services built into and supported by the Internet suite of protocols.

a) GET
b) PUT
c) FTP
d) ZIP


Question 4

FTP can run

a) from a Web browser.
b) with an FTP client program.
c) through a command-lin interface.
d) All of the above


Question 5

FTP is an abbreviation for

a) File Test Program
b) File Transfer Protocol.
c) Format Transfer Protocol.
d) None of the above


Question 6

A(n) _______ program is a Windows program that resides on your PC and transfers files between your computer and another computer connected to the Internet.

a) FTP client
b) command line interface
c) Telnet client
d) None of the above


Question 7

The Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browsers both recognize the _______ protocol.

a) FTP
b) anonymous
c) client
d) server


Question 8

To transfer files between your PC and another computer, first you must connect to the _______ computer, which you can do by logging on to it directly or from your Web browser.

a) remote
b) destination
c) origin
d) client


Question 9

When you want to upload or download a file, you connect to a remote computer and request that the _______ either receive files from you or transfer files from the remote computer to yours.

a) FTP client
b) command-line interface
c) FTP server
d) Web server


Question 10

Some computer systems provide _____ to their computers, which means anyone can connect to the FTP site.

a) limited access
b) private access
c) public access
d) None of the above


Question 11

When you connect to an FTP site using a Web browser, the browser automatically supplies the user name _____ and an appropriate password to access the computer.

a) public
b) anonymous
c) FTP
d) non-full access


Question 12

Usually, you will use _____ FTP to transfer files from another computer to your PC.

a) command-line
b) full-privilege
c) anonymous
d) named


Question 13

_____ FTP is another term for "named FTP".

a) Full-privilege
b) Non-anonymous
c) Self-identified
d) All of the above


Question 14

_______ FTP programs are used on nongraphical interfaces, such as UNIX computer systems.

a) Command-line
b) Windows-based
c) GUI
d) All of the above


Question 15

You can use an FTP client program or a _____ to access FTP sites.

a) DOS client program
b) Web browser
c) Web page-design program
d) None of the above


Question 16

Which of the following is a feature of Windows FTP client programs?

a) Provide multipane display to the local and remote computers simultaneously
b) Allow you to transfer multiple files in one session
c) Permit dran-and-drop transfer between computers
d) All of the above


Question 17

If you are travelling and want to send a file from a branch office back to your account in another city, then you must use a(n)______ , and not a Web browser, to transfer the file.

a) FTP client
b) word processing program
c) Web client
d) All of the above


Question 18

When you use a Web browser to transfer files, it automatically determines if a file is _____ and then transfers the file in that mode.

a) ASCII
b) binary
c) encrypted
d) Either A or B


Question 19

The root or top-level directory of an FTP site is also known as the _______ directory.

a) start
b) home
c) base
d) origin


Question 20

Most sites prevent you from moving to a directory that is ________ the FTP root directory, which is restricted for anonymous FTP users.

a) above
b) below
c) at the same level as
d) All of the above


Question 21

When you visit a(n) _______ directory for the first time, a brief message indicates which file contains important information about the site.

a) root
b) main
c) client
d) publix


Question 22

When you use a(n) ________, the FTP server provides a special return link that takes you up one level in the directory hierarchy when you are not at the root directory.

a) FTP client
b) Web browser
c) command-line FTP program
d) All of the above


Question 23

FTP client software displays different _______ to distinguish between the two types of hyperlinks.

a) clients
b) icons
c) folders
d) files


Question 24

As you move deeper down a directory hierachy, a ________ separates the individual directory names.

a) backslash
b) forward slash
c) comma
d) colon


Question 25

You can use FTP to download ________from many different sites.

a) free programs
b) data files
c) software patches
d) All of the above


Question 26

A(n) ______ session occurs when you establish a connection on the Internet with another computer and log on to it with a username and password.

a) UNIX
b) Telnet
c) Hypertext Transfer Protocol
d) Gopher


Question 27

You can download software and data using a

a) command-line FTP program.
b) Windows FTP client program.
c) Web browser.
d) All of the above


Question 28

Many FTP sites have specific policies that force you to acknowledge, before you upload files, that

a) someone else is the owner of the material.
b) the transfer of the files violates copyright restrictions.
c) the transfer of the files will not violate any intellectual property restrictions.
d) All of the above


Question 29

Before transferring a file using FTP, check to see if you want to use the ASCH or _____ file transfer mode.

a) Plain-Text protocol
b) hypertext Transfer Protocol
c) binary
d) Either A or B


Question 30

Programs contain binary data that will be destroyed if you transfer it as _____ text.

a) ASCII
b) PDF
c) zipped
d) compressed



True/False Questions

Question 31

Using FTP is especially easy when you use a Web browser to log on to an FTP site anonymously.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 32

FTP sites include both directory and file hyperlinks.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 33

Regardless of what software you use to access an FTP site, the FTP site will look about the same.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 34

If you get lost in an FTP directory structure, it is very difficult to determine your location and get back to the root directory.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 35

A very small number of software vendors use the Internet to distribute and sell new software releases.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 36

All binary representations or codes are ASCII characters.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 37

People usually read plain-text files, whereas computer programs read binary files.

b) The statement above is TRUE.
a) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 38

If you open a file you have transferred and it contains gibberish, then you have chosen the wrong transfer mode.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 39

In all likelihood, a file named profit.xls is an Excel worksheet file.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 40

Virus detection software scans the files on your disk looking for any infected files.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Fill-in-the-Blank


Fill in the Blank with the word(s) that best fits the definition:

(hint: use vocabulary from the checkboxes below)

Question 41. ASCII characters or codes are actually a subset of the larger code set.



Question 42. You can download files with a file extension of .txt in mode.



Question 43. The process of restoring a compressed file to its original form is called file



Question 44. Computer are programs that infect your computer and cause harm to your disk or programs.



Question 45. A virus is a sequence of characters that is always present in a particular virus program.



Question 46. Software can contain unintentional errors, called ,that can cause the program to halt or misbehave or even to do some real damage to the user's computer.



Question 47. A restricted version of a shareware program is called a(n) (two words)



Question 48. The format known as (three words), developed by Adobe Corporation, provides a convenient, self-contained package for delivering and displaying documents containing text, graphics, charts, and other objects.



Question 49. A(n) is a small text file that your browser exchanges with the Web site or FTP server and then subsequently saves on your computer.



Question 50. You can use a Windows program called to list the computers that lie between your PC and a remote server and to compute the hops.





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I need class review on the following vocabulary words from this chapter:

upload download command-line interface FTP client FTP server

anonymous login anonymous anonymous FTP session named FTP full-privilege FTP

heirarchical structure root directory Telnet session ASCII text binary


file transfer mode ASCII mode binary mode extension or file extention file compression file expansion zip files viruses Portable Document Format-pdf Adobe Acrobat Reader WinZip cookie hop tracert (tracer route) Packet Internet Groper-ping


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