Networks
Data Management in Businesses
Information Security
Networking Fundamentals
Chapters 4-6
100
Connects two or more devices within the same building, so that every device on the network can communicate with every other device.
What is A Local Area Network
100
A set of programs that provide users with tools to create and manage a database
What is a Database Management System
100
A form of security that refers to all of the processes and policies designed to protect an organization's information and information systems from unauthorized access
What is information security
100
The most prevalent form of communication wiring, especially in business telephone wiring
What is Twisted-pair wire
100
This assigned address distinguishes a computer from all other computers on a network
What is the IP address
200
Stated in bits per second, this refers to the transmission capacity of a network.
What is Bandwith
200
A diagram that represents entities in a database and their relationships
What is a data model
200
Illegal activities conducted over computer networks
What is Cybercrime
200
A cable that consists of thousands of very thin filaments of glass fibers that transmit information via light pulses generated by lasers
What is Fiber Optic cable
200
This query language is the most popular when it comes to interacting with a database
What is Structured query language
300
Most common in computers, this allows the device to physically connect to the network.
What is a Network Interface Card
300
A repository of historical data that are organized by subject to support decision makers in the organization
What is a data warehouse
300
An attack in which the perpetrator uses social skills to trick or manipulate a person
What is social engineering
300
This protocol manages movement of data packets between devices, sequences the transfer of these packets and acknowledges the packets that have been transmitted
What is Transmission Control Protocol
300
This computer program searches for specific information by keywords and then reports the results
What is a search engine
400
A transmission capacity of a communications medium that is faster than 25 Mbps for download speed
What is broadband
400
A process that extracts, transforms and then loads data into a data mart or warehouse
What is ETL
400
Segment of computer code that performs malicious actions by attaching to another computer program
What is a virus
400
This layer of the TCP/IP breaks message into packets and then determines their order
What is the Transport layer
400
This information security system prevents a specific type of information from moving between untrusted networks
What is a firewall
500
This emerging network system dynamically adjusts data flows to meet business and application needs
What is a Software-defined network
500
This term is referred to as the superabundance of data available today around the world
What is Big Data
500
A clandestine software that is installed on your computer through duplicitous methods.
What is Alien software
500
This type of processing has each computer acting as a client and a server
What is Peer-to-peer processing
500
A global WAN that connects 1 million organizational computer networks in more than 200 countries
What is the Internet
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