ITEC2110 Spring 2013 Test 4, Dr. Jim Rowan
1) If you wanted to run a web server on your personal computer at home why would you
NOT want to use DHCP?
2) If you were to enter: http://www.theAmazingMarvin.com/cardTricks/trickOne.html
into your browser and hit return, what is the NAME of the page that would be retrieved
from that website?
3) If you were to enter: http://www.theAmazingMarvin.com/cardTricks/OneHanded/ into
your browser and hit return, what is the NAME of the page that would be retrieved from
that website?
4) Looking at the URL: http://www.theAmazingMarvin.com/cardTricks/ what is the
domain name that will be used by the DNS to look up the IP address of the server?
5) HTTP is one of the three Internet protocols we discussed. Name one other.
6) Audio, like vision, has its own set of illusions. DESCRIBE (don’t just name it) one of
them other than audio creep that we discussed in class.
7) What kind of filter would you use to remove 60 cycle hum?
8) To remove the frequencies above 8,000 cycles per second from an audio track, what
kind of filter would be best to use?
9) To remove the frequencies below 6,000 cycles per second from a audio track, what
kind of filter would be best to use?
10) What kind of filter removes sound that falls below a specified amplitude (aka gain).
11) What made the wiki different from other websites?
12) Tell me something (relevant to this class) about Ward Cunningham.
13) Who wrote the first web server?
14) Suffering from pancreatic cancer, during his last days Randy Pausch wrote a best
selling book. What was its name?
15) Is the copyright symbol required on printed material for that work to be protected by
copyright?
16) OCILLA provides protection from prosecution for what group?
17) OCILLA is one part of what broader piece of legislation?
18) Where was Alan Kay working when he supervised the creation of the desktop
metaphor and the GUI?
19) One fairly common form of compression applied to human voice is called
“companding”. What does companding do to make an audio file smaller?
20) Humans are very well tuned to hearing their own names. In fact, they can hear their
names spoken in a conversation across the room when they would not be able to follow
the conversation. What is this ability called?
21) What two factors affect our ability to tell the directionality of a sound?
22) Which type of intellectual property allows use but requires that you acquire written
permission from the author as well as providing a citation.
23) After a copyright expires, the work converts to what form of intellectual property?
24) List the four specific conditions that are used to determine Fair Use.
25) Who saw Alan Kay’s work at XEROX PARC and used it to change computing as we
know it?