WEEK 1 QUIZ

Question 1
What was the Lorenz Machine used to transmit? News stories from Germany to the soldiers at the front so they would feel more connected to family and friends back home Intelligence between the American and British forces Attack plans between the British and Russian Generals Detailed information between Hitler and his Generals Long strategic messages with lots of detail

Question 2
What did the Polish Cipher Bureau give to the British? A German Geheimschreiber A Polish dessert called the Bomba Access to the Polish telephone network data transmissions A technique for breaking encoded German Enigma messages

Question 3
Why was the Enigma machine so important to the German strategy during World-War II? Encrypted wireless communication allowed for a very fast and yet coordinated approach to war Because it allows data to be stored on punched cards and quickly read so that computer programs could easily be changed. Because Germany's enemies would be distracted if they believed all the mis-information in the communication Germany wanted to challenge the British to see who could build the first electronic computer

Question 4

What kind of parts were used to make the Colossus electronic computer? Microprocessors and random access memory A gas turbine that drove an air compressor Vacuum tubes, relays, switches, and lights A complex series of gears, pulleys and springs that allowed it to walk forward in a halting motion

Question 5
What are leased lines? The modern lines we connect to the internet through Secure lines used to connect British cryptographers to British military command Dedicated telephone lines organizations paid telecom companies monthly to have continuous access to

Question 6
About how many vacuum valves/tubes were there in the Colossosus? 150 12 10000 2500

Question 7
What made Bletchley park successful? The information provided by the Polish Cipher Bureau Their huge team dedicated to the purpose of decryption The unlimited budget available to them All of the above

Question 8
Who did the Enigma machine belong to?

The Norwegians The British The Germans The Polish

Question 9
Who created the functional design of the Bombe? Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman Alistair Dennison and Tommy Flowers Max Newman and William (Bill) Tutte

Question 10
Where is Bletchley Park located? Glasgow, Scotland Buckinghamshire, England Sydney, Australia New Mexico, United States

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Question 1
What was the Lorenz Machine used to transmit?

Your Answer

News stories from Germany to the soldiers at the front so they would feel more connected to family and friends b

Attack plans between the British and Russian Generals

Detailed information between Hitler and his Generals

Intelligence between the American and British forces

Long strategic messages with lots of detail

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Question Explanation The Enigma was used to transmit short tactical messages to many different forward positions. The Lorenz machine was used to send long, detailed, more strategic messages to the high command.

Question 2
What did the Polish Cipher Bureau give to the British?

Your Answer

A German Geheimschreiber

A Polish dessert called the Bomba

Access to the Polish telephone network data transmissions

A technique for breaking encoded German Enigma messages

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Question Explanation The Polish gave the British the knowledge that the Enigma could be broken. This encouraged the British to work hard, and apply the brightest minds they had to the problem.

Question 3
Why was the Enigma machine so important to the German strategy during World-War II?

Your Answer

Because Germany's enemies would be distracted if they believed all the mis-information in the communication

Because it allows data to be stored on punched cards and quickly read so that computer programs could easily be

Encrypted wireless communication allowed for a very fast and yet coordinated approach to war

Germany wanted to challenge the British to see who could build the first electronic computer

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Question Explanation The strategy of highly coordinated attacks with a wide variety of forces that were carefully orchestrated was a brilliant military strategy. But because so many orders were sent back and forth it made decrypting the messages easier because the British had so much access to encrypted material including routine messages with unchanging plain text.

Question 4
What kind of parts were used to make the Colossus electronic computer?

Your Answer

A complex series of gears, pulleys and springs that allowed it to walk forward in a halting motion

A gas turbine that drove an air compressor

Vacuum tubes, relays, switches, and lights

Microprocessors and random access memory

Total
Question Explanation The irony was that all the pieces that made up the Colossus were in wide use in telephone and

radio equipment for amplification. The clever idea was to use the tubes as digital switches rather than analog amplifiers.

Question 5
What are leased lines?

Your Answer

Dedicated telephone lines organizations paid telecom companies monthly to have continuous access to

The modern lines we connect to the internet through

Secure lines used to connect British cryptographers to British military command

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Question Explanation Leased lines were expensive and the cost was closely related to the distance of the leased line, Before the 1990's there was a very small amount of buried copper wire and it was used mostly for long-distance phone calls which were very expensive. So a leased line was priced to be similar to a long-distance phone call. Today most long-distance data moves across fiber optic that is capable of carrying far more data than copper so the cost is more reasonable.

Question 6
About how many vacuum valves/tubes were there in the Colossosus?

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2500

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12

10000

150

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Question Explanation

1.00 / 1.00

The amazing thing was that tubes were seen as too unreliable for 2500 to work simultaneously without failing for any length of time. The trick was to never to turn the Colossus off for months or years. And if you turn it off and on, it needs to be done very slowly to warm the tubes up so as not to break the tiny wires inside the tubes. Only an experienced phone company engineer would know that the seemingly unreliable tubes were quite reliable if left on permanently and never shut off (as they would be in a telephone switching station).

Question 7
What made Bletchley park successful?

Your Answer

The information provided by the Polish Cipher Bureau

Their huge team dedicated to the purpose of decryption

The unlimited budget available to them

All of the above

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Question Explanation We will see a continuing theme that innovations happen when governments give plenty of resources to smart people and give them time to think and experiment and work with other bright people to solve a large and complex problem. Often the innovations they produce that transform our world are something quite different from the actual problem they were trying to solve in the first place. If we look at Bletchley Park, its stated purpose was to decrypt enemy messages during war. While this is no longer needed, their efforts produced the first reliable, production quality electronic computer that is the precursor to the electornic equipment that you are using right this minute to take this quiz.

Question 8
Who did the Enigma machine belong to?

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The Norwegians

The British

The Germans

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The Polish

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Question Explanation

1.00 / 1.00

The Wikipedia page on the Enigma is very interesting. It was originally built before the war started to encrypt business communications sent over wireless or wired networks. The Germans took the commercial Enigma and tweaked it a bit to turn it into their military version.

Question 9
Who created the functional design of the Bombe?

Your Answer

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Alistair Dennison and Tommy Flowers

Max Newman and William (Bill) Tutte

Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman

1.00

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Question Explanation The Bombe was a group effort with Turing providing the theory, Harold 'Doc' Keen providing the mechanical designs, and Gordon Welchman providing the critical Diagonal Board Optimization and may other creative people.

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Question 10
Where is Bletchley Park located?

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Sydney, Australia

New Mexico, United States

Glasgow, Scotland

Buckinghamshire, England

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Question Explanation

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Bletchley Park was located north of London and between Oxford and Cambridge. It was on a major rail line and close to the major telephone lines connecting London to the rest of the UK. It needed to be outside London to avoid the bombing that was happening in London. Being close to Oxford and Cambridge provided easy access to the brilliant scholars at those universities.

Week 2 Quiz
The due date for this quiz is Mon 24 Jun 2013 11:59 PM PDT (UTC -0700).

In accordance with the Coursera Honor Code, I (ANGEL GOMEZ PEREZ) certify that the answers here are my own work.Thank you!

Question 1
What was the primary reason for the development of store and forward networks by the academic community? Leased lines were only available to businesses like banks There were no leased lines available in the US The phone company refused to provide leased lines to the academic community Data transfer with leased lines was expensive due to limited copper

Question 2
What were the primary motivations for the Department of Defense to develop the research network ARPANET? There was a desire to make sure consumer hand-held devices would continue to function in case of nuclear war They knew that if they built the ARPANET during the 1970's it would lay the groundwork for massive economic growth in the later 1990's Cisco was using the ARPANET to test the performance and reliability of its early products in the 1970's and 1980's To improve computing equipment for military purposes, making it easier for people to access computers, and communicate more effectively across the military.

Question 3
What was the fundamental difference between the store and forward network of BITNET, and ARPANET? The use of leased lines from the telephone company ARPANET was essentially a store-and-forward network for the U.S. Military The use of computer terminals Packet switching

Question 4
In the shared network, the role of the router is: To forward data To store all of the possible routes between a pair of connected computers To store data To store and forward data

Question 5
What is an advantage of packet switching? Packet switching makes sure every packet takes exactly the same path from the source computer to the destination computer Many messages can be in-flight at the same time, preventing large messages from blocking small ones There is no major advantage and the decision to do packet switching was politically motivated Packet switching slows all messages down to the speed of the slowest message

Question 6
Why did the National Science Foundation decide to build a national shared network? It was very expensive to give each university its own supercomputer. A national shared network was more affordable. Microsoft wanted to build networking into Windows-95 and they needed a testbed for their new software Cisco wanted someone to develop and test router technology so they could build a business around network hardware Politicians put pressure on the National Science Foundation to build a national shared network

Question 7
Larry Smarr was one of many instrumental players in creating the first national network. What do we learn from his interview? That high performance computing needs at universities and the Internet were deeply connected Telephone companies were very supportive of NSFNet. Access to shared library resources (journals etc) were the primary motivator of the NSFNet From the first moment that NSFNet was turned on, Google was the most popular application

Question 8
Why did the University of Michigan not participate in the ARPANET research project? No states starting with the letter M were included Michigan had its own state-wide network, consisting of 10 nodes

When Michigan first connected to ARPANET they crashed the network, and so were permanently removed from the project Michigan had its own state-wide network, consisting of 3 nodes

Question 9
In the late 1980s, how did the first average citizens get Internet access? Average citizens could purchase Internet access commercially Average citizens entered competitions to win Internet access The rules for academics-only were slowly bypassed The US military realized they could raise funds by selling access to the Internet ARPANET became the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) and sold access to the NSFNet Some citizens hacked into the network

Question 10
What was the primary difference between the University of Michigan proposal to build the NSFNet, and the other proposals? The University of Michigan proposal proposed a 1.54Mbit/sec network instead of a 56kbit/sec network. The University of Michigan proposal used the superior store-and-forward approach. The other proposals used packet network approaches. The University of Michigan proposal connected high-schools to the Internet. The other proposals only connected the supercomputer centers. The University of Michigan proposal included a search engine. The other proposals only had a directory-style lookup of Web resources. In accordance with the Coursera Honor Code, I (ANGEL GOMEZ PEREZ) certify that the answers here are my own work.Thank you!

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Week 3 Quiz

There are 10 questions on this quiz. Each time you take the quiz you may see different questions. Your highest score will be kept if you take the quiz more than once. Once you take the quiz you have to wait 10 minutes before you can take it again. There may be questions from week 1 or week 2.

Question 1
What was a common goal that the various innovators we've heard from were trying to achieve? Improving communication between people all across the world Increase market share of their product so they would get a bonus Make sure that their country was the only country with and effective communications infrastructure Commercialize their innovations as quickly as possible before anyone came up with a better idea

Question 2
In 1994-1995, Microsoft saw the Internet as such an important piece of the future that they devoted how many people to developing support for the Internet and Web into Windows-95? 500 5000 2000 10000

Question 3

What best describes Robert Caillau's vision for the World Wide Web? A system through which academics could discover research relevant to their field A tool that would allow people to shop, connect with family and friends, and produce public logs of their daily lives An interface that would allow academics to collaboratively create, edit, and view documentation, seeing each different type of material (maps, images, text, etc.) in its own particular individual window.

Question 4
What pieces of technology had to be created for the web to be successful in 1994? A method of linking between documents Video cameras to allow low-cost video calls around the world Printers that could be used over wireless networks Wearable virtual reality glasses

Question 5
What problems were the team trying to develop NCSA Mosaic trying to solve? (check all that apply) Creating a browser that would let people view documents stored on the web Creating a browser that would become a new operating system Creating a browser where all content popped up in a new window Creating a web browser that was easy to install

Question 6

Who did Paul Kunz describe the modern implementation of the internet as being a "win-win" solution for? (check all that apply) The Web is a win for the telephone and cable companies as it created demand for an entirely new service they could charge high prices for The Web is a win for everyday people as it allows them to do complex product comparisons effectively The Web is a win for companies because it helps them reaching their target audience more directly

Question 7
What did Steve Jobs contribute to the creation of the Internet? He gave CERN a grant to write the software for the world-wide web. He was responsible for the company that created the NeXT machine - and on which much of the most earliest development of the Internet was done. He invented a new business model for music that ultimate created the need for the worldwide-web and Internet While in college, he created the browser that would ultimately be instrumental in making the Internet available to everyone. He made sure that the first web browser from CERN was very easy to install and use by bundling it into the iPad

Question 8
In what year can we clearly say the World Wide Web took off? 1994 1988 1998

1991

Question 9
What makes Switzerland an ideal location to house a multi-national collaborative research facility like CERN? The fantastic food available to feed these brilliant minds The flat landscape allows for the construction of large above-ground particle accelerators Switzerland's longstanding neutrality allows scientists from all over the world to travel there more easily than other nations. The beautiful and inspiring scenery

Question 10
What kinds of atmospheres do we consistently see as providing the right support to allow fantastic innovation to happen? Places that put whole communities of extraordinary experts in one location to work together on various projects. Organizations that establish metrics that require a certain number of breakthrough innovations per year for each employee. Top-down organizations that emphasize specific goals and standards, and refuse to allow their research to be distracted by new discoveries. Organizations that offer financial bonuses to employees that produce innovations that transform society.