Chapter 4 Vocab
Alien Software that is designed to help pop-up advertisements appear on your screen.
What is Adware?
The same data are stored in multiple locations.
What is Data Redundancy?
A grouping of logically related fields.
What is a record?
In 2014 a hacker group called the "Guardians of Peace" hacked this well known company.
What is Sony Pictures.
A virtual meeting place where groups of regulars come to "gab" electronically.
What is a chat room?
An examination of information systems, their inputs, outputs, and processing.
What is an Audit?
Applications cannot access data associated with other applications.
What is Data Isolation?
A grouping of logically related records.
What is a table?
In 2013 this store's system was hacked, they stole people's credit card information.
What is Target?
Software applications through which users primarily access the web.
What are Browsers?
A process that determines the identity of the person requiring access.
What is Authentication?
Various copies of the data do not agree.
What is Data Inconsistencies?
Each characteristic or quality of a particular entity.
What is an attribute?
This equipment has become obsolete and replaced with switches.
What is a Hub?
A common local area network protocol.
What is Ethernet?
A private combination of characters that only the user should know.
What is a password?
Data that meets certain constraints.
What is Data Integrity?
A binary digit that is, a 0 or a 1.
What is a bit?
In this country the citizens that have access to open internet is around 5%.
What is Cuba?
Device that converts signals from analog to digital and vice versa.
What is a modem?
Any danger to which information resource may be exposed.
What is a threat?
Applications and data that are not linked to one another.
What is Data independence?
A diagram that represents entities in the database and their relationships.
What is a data model?
The year in which the first email was sent.
When was 1971?
A set of rules and procedures governing transmission across a network.
What is protocol?