Internet Standards and Pioneers Quiz

Test your knowledge on TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, and more. Discover pioneers like Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreessen in this Internet protocols quiz.

#1

Who is known as one of the fathers of the Internet for co-designing the TCP/IP protocols?

Tim Berners-Lee
Bill Gates
Vint Cerf
Steve Jobs
#2

What does HTTP stand for?

HyperText Transfer Protocol
HighText Transfer Protocol
Hyper Transfer Protocol Text
HyperText Translation Protocol
#3

What protocol is used to secure communications over the Internet?

FTP
HTTP
HTTPS
SMTP
#4

Who invented the World Wide Web?

Vint Cerf
Tim Berners-Lee
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
#5

Which protocol is used for sending emails?

HTTP
FTP
SMTP
TCP
#6

Which organization is responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS)?

IEEE
ICANN
IETF
ISO
#7

In what year was the first email sent, and who sent it?

1971 by Ray Tomlinson
1969 by Leonard Kleinrock
1983 by Martin Cooper
1973 by Bob Kahn
#8

Which of the following is NOT a web browser?

Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
TCP/IP
#9

What was the original purpose of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet?

Commercial transactions
Military communications
Educational research
Social networking
#10

The first web page was created by Tim Berners-Lee and was dedicated to providing information about the:

Internet Protocol
World Wide Web project
HyperText Markup Language
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
#11

What is the primary purpose of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)?

To regulate Internet commerce
To develop Internet standards
To distribute domain names
To manage Internet security
#12

Which of the following is a foundational technology used for creating web pages?

CSS
HTML
JavaScript
All of the above
#13

Marc Andreessen led the team that developed the first widely used web browser, which was called:

Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Netscape Navigator
Mosaic
#14

The fundamental underlying design of the Internet is based on:

The client-server model
The end-to-end principle
The centralized database model
The peer-to-peer model
#15

Which of these is a correct representation of an IPv6 address?

192.0.2.1
3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf
256.300.1.1
WWW:DDDD

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