A disk configuration where two disks hold identical data at all times and allow for redundancy.
What is RAID 1 or disk mirroring?
300
A transmission protocol used over the internet that is initiated with a three-way handshake before transmission of data begins. It is also distinguished by port numbers which range from 0-65535.
What is TCP or Transmission Control Protocol?
300
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This is a secure form of telnet that should be used instead of telnet when available.
What is Secure Shell or SSH?
300
In computerese, it's what the P stands for in the abbreviation HTTP.
What is protocol?
300
This was the first operating system to utilize the NTFS file system type.
What is Windows NT?
600
Universal Serial Bus
What is a USB?
600
a cable consisting of 4 pairs of wire (8 wires) that allows for high speed data communication.
What is an ethernet cable?
600
A common mechanism used to keep users from gaining entry into a particular computer resource to which they should not have access. Don't forget it!
What is a password?
600
You can't have too much RAM, which stands for this.
What is Random Access Memory?
600
This button in Windows is the main button where you can go to start programs or shutdown the computer.
What is the Start Button?
900
This peripheral interface is the current standard for all daughter-boards to connect with motherboards.
What is PCI-Express?
900
ARPANET, a 1960s Defense Department project, pioneered the sending of data in small units called these.
What are packets?
900
A widely used cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit hash value. IT is also commonly used to check the integrity of files.
What is MD5?
900
Digital computers use this number system in which the decimal number 12 becomes 1100.
What is binary?
900
This Mobile Operating System Runs Off Of The Linux Kernel.
What Is Android?
1200
This type of keyboard is commonly used in the United States and is identified by the order of six sequential keys on the keyboard.
What is a QWERTY keyboard?
1200
A command commonly used to test network connectivity; to see if a host is replying to network communication.
What is a ping?
1200
One type of this keeps flames from spreading; another keeps snoops out of a computer network.
What is a firewall?
1200
This unit equals about 1,000 megabytes, or about half a million pages of text
What is Gigabyte?
1200
Conceived and implemented in the 1960s and first released in 1970, this operating system is considered to be the origins of the Linux operating system.
What is UNIX or MINIX?
1800
This motherboard form-factor is commonly used in small desktop computers such as the Shuttle PC.
What is Micro or Mini ATX?
1800
A number that is divided into four octets and each octet contains a value between 0 and 255. For example: 10.10.10.10
What is an IP address?
1800
Crafted by Robert Morris, the first known one of these viruses "wriggles" into computers.
What is a worm?
1800
This word for fire is also an abusive note on a message board or in a chat room.
What is flame?
1800
The newest Microsoft operating system that is scheduled to be released in the very near future.