A code used to authenticate the source of a file or document or to identify and authenticate a person or organization sending data over the Internet?
What is digital certificate
100
A technique used by browsers to speed up download times by caching Web pages previously requested in case they are requested again?
What is client-side caching
100
The communications protocol used by the World Wide Web?
What is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
100
A protocol that governs the methods for communicating via modems and dial-up telephone lines?
What is PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
100
A secure protocol developed by Netscape that uses a digital certificate including a public key to encrypt and decrypt data?
What is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
200
A Windows 9x/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP utility that uses a modem and telephone line to connect to a network?
What is dial-up networking
200
The highest level of domain names, indicated by a suffix that tells something about the host. For example, .com is for commercial use and .edu is for educational institutions?
What is top-level domain
200
The protocol used to transfer files over a TCP/IP network such that the file does not need to be converted to ASCII format before transferring it?
What is File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
200
The protocol that describes how a PC is to interact with a broadband converter box, such as cable modem, when the two are connected by an Ethernet cable, connected to a NIC in a PC?
What is PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet)
200
A protocol used to monitor and manage network traffic on a workstation?
What is SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
300
In networking, a protocol that confirms that a good connection has been made before transmitting data to the other end?
What is connection-oriented protocol
300
An established communication link between two software programs. On the Internet, a session is created by TCP?
What is session
300
A telephone line that carries digital data from end to end, and can be leased from the telephone company for individual use?
What is DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)
300
A protocol that is used to authenticate or prove that a client who attempts to use an email server to send email is authorized to use the server?
What is SMTP AUTH (SMTP Authentication)
300
The protocol used by e-mail clients and servers to send e-mail messages over the Internet?
What is SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
400
A protocol such as UDP that does not require a connection before sending a packet and does not guarantee delivery?
What is connectionless protocol
400
A technique that allows a computer on the Internet to reach a computer on a private network using a certain port when the private network is protected by a router using NAT as a proxy server. Port forwarding is also called tunneling?
What is port forwarding
400
An application that has two components. The client software requests data from the server software on the same or another computer?
What is client/server application
400
guarantees delivery of data for application protocols and establishes a session before it begins transmitting data?
What is TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
400
The protocol that an e-mail server and client use when the client requests the downloading of e-mail messages?
What is POP (Post Office Protocol)
500
A technique used by servers on the Internet to speed up download times by caching Web pages previously requested in case they are requested again?
What is server-side caching
500
A Windows 98 and Windows XP utility that uses NAT and acts as a proxy server to manage two or more computers connected to the Internet?
What is Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
500
A protocol that TCP/IP uses to translate IP addresses into physical network addresses?
What is ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
500
A connectionless protocol that does not require a connection to send a packet and does not guarantee that the packet arrives at its destination?
What is UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
500
A digital telephone line that can carry data at about five times the speed of regular telephone lines?
What is ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)