Exercise & Question Answers

Chapter 2
Class X
D. Answer the following questions:
Q.a What is a search engine?

Ans. A search engine is a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to
keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide
Web.

Q.b What is 4G Technology?

Ans. 4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology, succeeding 3G. Potential and
current applications include amended mobile web access, IP telephony, gaming services, high-definition
mobile TV, video conferencing, and 3D television.

Q.c Name three sites for searching people.

Ans. Three sites for searching people:

1. www.whitepages.com
2. www.spokeo.com
3. www.instantcheckmate.com

Q.d What is surfing? Name the software used for it?

Ans. Surfing is the act of browsing the Internet by going from one web page to another web page using
hyperlinks. Browser software is used for surfing.

Q.e What is a chat room?

Ans. Chat room is an “area” on the Internet where groups of people having something in common come
together to communicate for a purpose. One user types a message which can be seen all by other users who
are online at that time in the same “room”.

Q.f What is a blog?

Ans. Blog is an online journal or diary of an individual. It is mostly written by one person who is called a
blogger. It is generally used to tell about an individual's view on any particular topic, promote products,
provide information. Etc.

Q.g How is a news group different from a blog?

Ans. A newsgroup is (typically) focused on a certain subject matter, and has many different people posting
their comments and questions on that topic while a blog is (typically) focused on a certain author’s voice,
and often covers many different topics, of interest to the author.

Q.h Name three services providers for email.

Ans. Three services providers for email:

1. Gmail - Best Free Email Service Provider.

2. Outlook.com - Another Top, Free Email Provider.
3. AOL Mail - Free Email Service With Unlimited Storage.

Q.i Name any two e-earning sites?

Ans. Two e-earning sites:

1. http://www.w3school.com
2. http://www.ncert.nic.in

Q.j What is MMS?

Ans. Multimedia Messaging Service is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to
and from a mobile phone over a cellular network. Users and providers may refer to such a message as a PXT,
a picture message, or a multimedia message.

Q.k What is MMS?

Repeated

Q. l What is mean by GSM?

Ans. The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital
cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.

Q.m Name any two e-groups which are popular?

Ans. Popular groups:

1. https://in.groups.yahoo.com
2. https://in.groups.googleo.com

Q.n What is meant mobile technology?

Ans. Mobile technology is the technology used for cellular communication. Cellular or Mobile
communication is one in which both the sender and receiver converse with each other while moving place to
place.

Q.o What is Bluetooth technology?

Ans. Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology that allows devices such as mobile phones, computers,
and other peripherals to transmit data or voice over a short distance wirelessly.

Long answer question

Q.a How does a search engine work?

Ans. The link structure of the web binds all of the pages together. Links allows the search engines automated
robots, called “crawlers’ or “spiders”, or “bots” to reach the many billions of interconnected documents on
the web. The engines decipher (Understand) the code from these documents and store selected pieces in
massive database. The selected data is recalled latter when needed for a search query. Most search engines
take one or more word entered by the user, search the contents of every webpage stored in their data bases
and display the result. Search engine list of websites that contain this information. These results are known
as “hits”. The word we type into the search box are called “keywords”.

Q.b What is the difference between bcc and cc?

Ans. CC, BCC is a way of sending copies of an email to other people. The difference between the two is that,
while you can see who else has received the email when CC is used, that is not the case with BCC. It is called
blind carbon copy because the other recipients won’t be able to see that someone else has been sent a copy
of the email.

Q.c What are the three common mail protocols?

Ans.

1. IMAP- It is incoming protocol, when we want to retrieve an e-mail box by multiple e-mail clients,
therefore clients generally leave messages on the server until the user explicitly deletes them.
2. POP- We set it as incoming protocol when we want to download all messages from the mail server
and stores them on the client computer, and finally deletes them from the server.
3. SMTP- It is an email related protocol used for sending messages to other computer users, based on
e-mail addresses.
Q.d What do you mean by e-banking?

Ans. Online banking is also known as internet banking, e-banking or virtual banking. It is an electronic
payment system that enables customers of a bank or other financial institution to do financial transaction
through the website.

The online banking can be classified as transactional or non-transactional:

Transactional- When a customer performs a financial transaction like transfer of money, paying of a bill, or
applies for a loan.

Non-transactional- This involves in checking the account details and bank statement online.

Q.e Name two advantages and disadvantages of a shopping for the buyer.

Ans. Advantages of e shopping-

1. Shopping online can be carried out 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all the year round.
2. We can do online shopping from the convenience of our home, without the need to travel to shop.

Disadvantages of e shopping-

1. A customer can only see the image of the product and is unable to touch or feel it.
2. If the customer wants to return a product the process may be quite tedious.

Q.g Write down the steps for e-shopping.

Ans. Steps for e-shopping-

1. A customer searches for products online and then orders the product over the internet.
2. He can pay using a credit card debit card or can of for COD (cash on delivery).
3. The order is processed electronically and the product is dispatched from the warehouse using the
services of some courier company.
4. Finally, the product is delivered directly to the customers home.

Q.h What are the rules for creating a valid e-mail address?

Ans. Rules for creating a valid email address-

1. The user name cannot be longer than 64 characters long and the domain name cannot be longer
than 254 characters.
 2. There should be only one @ sign in an email address.
3. The space and special characters: ( ), : ; <> \ [ ] are allowed.
4. The username and e-mail addresses cannot begin or end with a period.
5. The email must not have two or more consecutive periods.

Q.i Name any four ways in which people can communicate with each other using internet.

Ans. Four ways in which people can communicate:

1. E-mail-
2. Instant messaging
3. Video conferencing
4. Social networking

Q.j Name the two most popular e-Commerce sites in the world and in India.

Ans. The two most popular e-Commerce sites in the world and in India:

1. EBay and Amazon are the market leaders in online shopping in the world.
2. The popular websites offering online shopping in India are myntra.com, flipkart.com etc.

Q.k How is 4G different from 3G technology?

S.NO 3G TECHNOLOGY 4G TECHNOLOGY

1. It stands for 3rd generation technology. While it stands for 4th generation technology.
2. Maximum upload rate of 3G technology is 5 While the maximum upload rate of 4G
Mbps. technology is 500 Mbps.
3. Maximum download rate of 3G technology is 21 While the maximum download rate of 4G
Mbps. technology is 1 Gbps.
4. It uses packet switching technique. While it uses packet switching technique as well
as message switching technique.
Q.l What are e-groups? How are they useful?

Ans. A group is a group of people who come together to form an online on web community. This is a feature
many social networking sites which is now becoming very popular as it allows people to share photos,
events, messages, or comment to and read from their own interest.

E-groups are Useful:

1. It is a convenient means to get connected with old friends or new acquaintances or other like-
minded people.
2. it started as free email group service that allowed us to easily create and join email groups.
3. E-mail groups allow us to send email message to a group of people using just one email address no
need to typing a long list of addresses.

Q.m How is e-governance helpful to the people?

Ans. E-governance helpful to the people as:

1. E-governance empowers people by giving them access to information.

2. E-governance allows for government transparency as it informs the public about the policies they
are trying to implement.
3. It increases voter awareness, leading to an increase in citizen participation in elections.
4. It helps simplify processes and reduce red tapeism.
5. There is more transparency and accountability (responsibility).
Q.n What are the basic features of 2G?

Ans. Basic features of 2G:

1. Data speeds of up to 64 kbps.

2. Use of digital signals.
3. Enabled services such as SMS and MMS (Multimedia Message)
4. Provided better quality voice calls.
5. It used a bandwidth of 30 to 200 KHz.

Q.o What were the drawbacks of 1G technology?

Ans. Drawbacks of 1G technology:

1. Speed 2.4 kbps.

2. Allows voice calls in one country only.
3. Used analog signals rather than digital signals.
4. Poor Voice quality.
5. It is slower, and the signals cannot reach as far in terms of secluded areas and such 2G and 3G signal
is far more widespread.
a newsgroup is (typically) focused on a certain subject matter, and has many different people posting their
comments and questions on that topic. So you follow a newsgroup because you are interested in a specific
subject matter.

A blog is (typically) focused on a certain author’s voice, and often covers many different topics, of interest to
the author. So you follow a blog because you are interested in a particular author’s point of view.