A group of two or more computer systems that are linked together.
What is a Network?
100
A global network that connects millions of computers.
What is the internet?
100
Tool used in a medical office to assist in filling insurance claims, obtaining and keeping EHR (electronic health records), and scheduling appointments.
What is a computer?
100
Patients are entitled to this
What is the utmost confidentiality with respect to their medical records and the release of any information of a personal nature?
100
Special, high-speed storage that either can be part of the computer’s main memory or a separate storage device.
What is cache?
200
A device that connects several computers or networks.
What is a Hub?
200
The acronym for transmission control protocol/Internet protocol; a suite of communications protocols used to connect users or hosts to the Internet.
What is TCP/IP?
200
Most insurance companies require that providers file claims this way.
What is electronically?
200
Cipher text
What is encrypted data?
200
Messages sent to a Web browser from a Web server that identify users and can prepare custom Web pages for them, possibly displaying their name on return to the site.
What are cookies?
300
Designed to help the LAN run more efficiently by controlling local network traffic.
What is a Switch?
300
Short for electronic commerce; used to describe the sale and purchase of goods and services over the Internet; doing business over the Internet.
What is E-commerce?
300
A printed document of detailed charges, payments, adjustments, and the patients current balance.
What is a patient billing statement?
300
Allows the accumulation and storage of a vast amount of data that my be accessible to a variety of individuals
What is computer technology?
300
Important to the network because it is the computer that manages the shared network resources.
What is a server?
400
Spans an area that does not exceed a metropolitan area or city and connects several LANs.
What is a MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)?
400
The acronym for uniform resource locator; specifies the global address of documents or information on the Internet.
What is URL?
400
A way to organize a large volume information.
What is a database software?
400
The amount of time to regularly check for updates on an antivirus program.
What is (at least) weekly?
400
Used to process database queries.
What is a database server?
500
Used on college campuses and sometimes on military bases.
What is a CAN (Campus Area Network)?
500
The initial part of a URL listing; the domain and name of the host or server, indicating the publisher of a Web page or site.
What is domain name?
500
A routine preformed to make sure valuable data can be retrieved in the event of a system failure.
What is a file backup?
500
Individuals who break into computers with dishonorable intent.
What is a cracker?
500
Small devices that are used to preform PC-like functions.