Tech Buzzwords
This term refers to a network of physical objects embedded with sensors and software to exchange data over the internet.
What is IOT (Internet of Things)?
This core OS component manages system hardware and software resources and provides essential services for applications.
What is the Kernel?
URL
What is uniform resource locater.
This system translates human-readable domain names like “example.com” into IP addresses that computers use to identify each other on a network.
What is DNS?
This hardware component offloads graphics processing from your CPU.
What is a GPU?
This buzzword describes the ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work or expand when needed.
What is scalability?
This feature, introduced in Windows 95, allows users to see and navigate their files in a visual folder structure.
What is Windows Explorer
NAT
What is Network Address Translation?
This protocol automatically assigns IP addresses to devices on a network, ensuring they can communicate without manual configuration.
What is DHCP?
This CPU feature splits 1 processing core into 2 logical processors.
What is hyperthreading?
This term refers to a distributed ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
What is Blockchain?
This version of Windows, released in 1993, was the first to integrate support for 32-bit applications and introduced the NTFS file system.
What is Windows NT
PID
What is Process identifier?
This protocol is used to map an IP address to a physical MAC address within a local network.
What is ARP?
This motherboard header powers your case’s power button, as well as HDD LED.
What is the front panel header or system panel connector.
This technique uses layers of algorithms to mimic human neural networks, often applied in AI and machine learning.
What is deep learning?
This process management technique in operating systems temporarily moves inactive processes from RAM to disk to free up memory.
What is paging or virtual memory?
TLS
What is Transport Level Security?
This protocol operates at the application layer and is used to transfer files between a client and server over a network, typically requiring authentication.
What is FTP.
This type of CPU cooler uses a closed loop water cooler, and has fans pumping air through a radiator.
What is an AIO?
This term describes an application delivery model where software is hosted in the cloud and accessed via a browser.
What is software as a service (SaaS)
This Unix-based operating system, first released in 1983, was developed as a free alternative to proprietary Unix systems and forms the foundation for modern Linux distributions.
What is GNU?
OSPF
What is open shortest path first?
This protocol is responsible for managing the error messages and operational information in IP-based networks, often used for troubleshooting.
What is ICMP?
This number is how many times the crystal in the real time clock vibrates per second. (Closest gets it)
What is 32768?