Telecommunications Knowledge Quiz
Telecommunications Knowledge Quiz
Test your knowledge on telecommunications and internet technology with our engaging quiz! Discover how much you know about the history and the evolution of communication networks.
- Explore questions related to IP protocols, bandwidth, and telecommunication history.
- Challenge yourself and learn new facts along the way!
Marc Andreessen is famous for...
Inventinng the World Wide Web
Design the first graphic interface
Writing the first browser for the World Wide Web
Creating the HyperLink
By which means does as much as 99% of the digital Information travel around the world?
Antennas
Copper cables
Underwater fiber-optic cables
Satellites
Which word matches this definition: The time it takes for a bit to travel from one place to another is the...
Wi-fi
Speed of light
Latency
Bandwidth
The very first device called iPhone was presented at the CES in Las Vegas in 1998, by which company?
InfoGear
Cisco
AT&T
Apple
What are Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn famous for?
Building the first large scale computer
Inventing IP protocol
Mapping the world's Internet infraestructure
Creating the World Wide Web
What does the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) do?
It braks down a file or message into small packets
It automatically assigns a list of dynamic IP addresses to a host when it connects to a network
It is like a serial number for a network device, it is specific and unique to that device
It sends the packets from one to another
A DNS is in charge of what, in the frame of telecommunications?
Avoiding delays
Recovering IP addresses
Transmmitting packets
Protecting personal data
In the history of the telegraph, Baudot is a very famous inventor, why?
He built the telegraph designed by Bell
He was the first one to use a telegraph accross the Atlantic ocean
He created a fixed-length five-bit binary code still in use today in the ASCII table
He found the AT&T original company
Which company can say that it "built a belt around the world with cables"?
Tata Telecommunications
Baby Bells
Google
Facebook
What does an Internet Protocol (IP) do?
It sends the packets from one place to another
It breaks down a file pr message into small packets
It automatically assigns a list of dynamic IP addresses to a host when it connects to a network
It is like a serial number fro a network device, it is specific and unique to that device
AT&T, the large American company, has had a monopoly for almost 2 centuries, on...
Long distance calls in the USA
Building telephone infraestructure on US soil
Underwater fiber-optic cables around the world
Telephone devices sales in the USA
What is the point in switching to IPv6?
Updating the existing addresses with more details
Making devices more secure
Getting longer IP addresses so we can have more addresses and more secure ones
Making signal transmissions faster
If a hacker taps a server to change the domain name associated to an IP address, we can say he is...
Changing the communication protocols
Altering the packets
Spoofing the DNS
Degrading the bathwidth
Which unit of speed transmission used for modems is named after an inventor in the telecoms field?
The Bell
The Marconi
The Baud
The Vinci
Which word matches this definition: The maximum transmission capacity of a device is the...
Power
RAM
Fiber-optic cable
Bandwidth
Who invented and presented the first effective mouse?
Danny Hillis
T. Berners Lee
Doug Engelbart
Ted Nelson
Routers and TCP guarantee fault tolerance and redundancy, which in return guarantee...
Speed
Security
Protocols
Reliability
Talking about mobile telecommunications, what is the main drawback of using millimiter waves?
Its bandwith is very narrow
It has troubles going through obstacles
Its bandwidth collides with other devices' ones
It is very expensive
What does the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) do?
It sends the packets from one place to another
It is a protocol that maps the logical IP addresses to the MAC addresses of a network device. 1. S a protocol that maps the logical IP addresses to 2. The physical media access control 3. or MAC addresses of a network device
It automatically assigns a list of dynamic IP addresses to a host when it connects to a network
It breaks down a file or message into small packets
What can you find at 60 Hudson Street New York?
The TedTalks Theatre
At&T headquarters
A huge telecom facilities building
The headquarters of Google
Which generation of wireless mobile telecommunications technology let us send text-messages for he first time?
2G
4G
1G
3G
In telecommunications, in which context are small cell networks useful?
In underwater cables because thie size is minimal
In satellite technology, because they are very light to transport
In developing countries because they are cheap
In big city centers, because they are used as relays of the signal
What is the role of the Network layer of the OSI?
It connects machines to a local network and detects transmission errors
It manages applicative connexions and guarantees connexion
It interconnects netwroks and fragments packets
It supports the transmission of communication
What is the role of a Physical layer of the OSI?
It interconnects networks and fragments packets
It manages applicative connexions and guarantees connexion
It supports the transmission of cimmunication
It connects machines to a local network and detects ttransmission errors
Who wrote the very famous article "As we may think" in 1945?
Alan Turing
Vannevar Bush
Vint Cerf
Ted Nelson
What is the OSI model made of?
It is made of fiber-optic cables
It is a small black box that sits on top of Big Ben
It is physical device present in every computer
It is made of several layers
What is the role of the Transport layer of the OSI?
It connects machines to a local network and detects transmissions errors
It supports the transmission of communication
It interconnects networks and fragments packets
It manages applicative connexions and guarantees connexion
If I want to send long-distance signals, which method is best?
Copper cable
Radio signals
Fiber-optic cable
Smoke
The inventor of the telephone, in 1876, is generally said to be
D. Morse
A. Volta
E. Baudot
A Graham Bell
What does a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) do?
It is like a serial number for a network device, it is specific and unique to that device
It automatically assigns amlist of dynamic IP address to a host when it connects to a network
It braks down a file or message into small packets
It sends the packerts from one place to another
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