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This layer 1 device forwards data based on MAC address.
What is a switch?
This protocol is used for sending emails.
What is SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)?
This notoriously difficult action-RPG series, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, is largely responsible for popularizing the "Souls-like" genre.
What is Dark Souls (or the Souls series)?
This actor fractured his foot while ad libbing kicking a helmet in The Two Towers.
Who is Viggo Mortensen?
Described as the "brain" of the computer, this component executes instructions and performs calculations.
What is the CPU (Central Processing Unit)?
This device connects different networks together by routing traffic between them using IP addresses.
What is a Router?
This "connectionless" protocol is favored for real-time communication like video streaming because it doesn't acknowledge received data.
What is UDP (User Datagram Protocol)?
This cryptic and often-memed phrase from the game Portal is used to describe a seemingly unobtainable reward.
What is "The cake is a lie"?
This is the name of the fictional, high-end hotel chain that serves as a neutral ground for assassins in the John Wick series.
What is The Continental?
This type of temporary memory stores actively used data for quick access by the CPU.
What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
This network security device monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on established security rules, acting as a barrier between a trusted internal network and untrusted external networks.
What is a firewall?
This system acts as the "phonebook" of the internet, translating human-friendly domain names into IP addresses.
What is DNS (Domain Name System)?
This fighting game's graphic fatalities were so controversial in 1992 that they directly led to the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).
What is Mortal Kombat?
This 2019 South Korean dark comedy was the first non-English language film in Oscar history to win Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This cloud computing model provides virtualized computing resources like servers and storage over the internet.
What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)?
A network administrator would configure a firewall to allow traffic on TCP port 22 to permit this secure, encrypted protocol for remote command-line management.
What is SSH (Secure Shell)?
This protocol automatically assigns IP addresses and other configuration details to devices joining a network.
What is DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)?
This fictional Midwestern city is the unfortunate setting for the T-virus outbreak in the first Resident Evil games.
What is Raccoon City?
This James Bond actor made an uncredited cameo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as the stormtrooper, JB-007, whom Rey successfully uses a Jedi mind trick on.
Who is Daniel Craig?
This specialized processor is designed to accelerate the creation of images and videos, making it essential for high-end gaming.
What is the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)?
This Layer 5 protocol is crucial for managing real-time communication sessions, such as in VoIP and video conferencing.
What is SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)?
This Microsoft directory service is foundational for managing user accounts, computers, and resources on a Windows network.
What is Active Directory (AD DS)?
In The Last of Us (2013), this is the name of the parasitic fungal infection that decimates humanity, creating "Clickers" and "Bloaters."
What is the Cordyceps Brain Infection?
The iconic mask worn by Michael Myers in the Halloween films is a painted and modified mask of this Star Trek actor.
Who is William Shatner?
In this cloud model, applications are hosted by a provider and accessed by users over the internet, like Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
What is SaaS (Software as a Service)?