A coffeehouse, restaurant, or other location that provides personal computers with Internet access to its customers often times for a fee
What is a Cybercafe?
100
Measures the amount of time it takes a storage device to locate an item on a storage medium
What is access time?
100
Network that covers a large geographic area
What is Wide Area Network?
100
Component of a hard disk that is made of aluminum, glass, or ceramic and is coated with an alloy material that allows items to be recorded magnetically on its surface
What is a Platter?
200
A group of related fields, all fields about one person or thing (rows)
What is record?
200
A simple, inexpensive network that typically connects fewer than 10 computers and each has equal responsibilities and capabilities
What is a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Network?
200
Accepts the transmission of data, instructions or information
What is the Receiving Device?
200
A high-speed network that connects local area networks in a metropolitan area
What is Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)?
200
Narrow recording band that forms a complete circle on the surface of a disk
What is track?
300
Meaningful, organized data
What is information?
300
Type of broadband Internet connection that uses radio signals to provide high-speed Internet connections to wireless computers and devices
What is Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)?
300
The technique of swapping items between memory and storage
What is paging?
300
A network that connects computers and devices in an individual's workspace using wired and wireless technology.
What is Personal Area Network (PAN)?
300
Smallest unit of disk space that stores data and information
What is Cluster?
400
Group of related files
What is database?
400
A collection of computers and devices connected together via communications devices and transmission media
What is a Network?
400
An application that runs the same on multiple operating systems.
What is Cross-platform?
400
A network that connects computers and devices in a limited geographical area.
What is Local Area Network (LAN)?
400
The number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold
What is Capacity?
500
Request for specific data from a data base
What is a query?
500
Initiates an instruction to transmit data, instructions or information
What is a sending device?
500
Set of commands used to control actions performed in a command-line interface
What is command language?
500
A high-speed network with the sole purpose of providing storage to other attached servers
What is Storage Area Network (SAN)?
500
A vertical section of a track that passes through all platters