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100

This transport layer protocol suite provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of streams.

What is TCP?

100

Chat GPT, FPS NPCs, and recommendation algorithms are all example of this broad consumer technology

What is artificial intelligence?

100

This revolutionary ISP was famous for providing dial-up internet and instant messaging.

What is AOL?

100

These addresses are natively provided to Windows systems in the event of an unavailable or failed DHCP server.

What is APIPA?

(Automatic Private IP Addressing

100

This IPv4 address is reserved as a "loopback address"

What is 127.0.0.1?

200

This protocol replaced Telnet with an encrypted means to remotely login and execute commands on systems

What is SSH?

200

This Java-based logging utility housed one of the most widespread zero-day threats in 2021.

What is Log4J?

200

The rapid rise of internet-based companies in the late nineties led to this market catastrophe.

What is Dot-Com Bubble?

200

This reserved address specifies a broadcast by replacing all host bits with 1s.

What is 255.255.255.255?

200

This kind of addressing is reserved for the IPV4 address 169.254.0.0/16

What is APIPA?

(Automatic Private IP Addressing)

300

This protocol enables file sharing, printer sharing, network browsing, and inter-process communications over the network

What is SMB?

300

This hacker conference is hosted in Las Vegas and welcomes tech hobbyists, security professionals, and journalists.

What is DEFCON?

300

This agency is largely responsible for laying the foundations of the internet

What is DARPA / ARPANET?

300

This RFC is responsible for specifying private IP address ranges, such as 10/8, 172.16/12, and 192.168/16

What is RFC1918?

300

On many home networks, this is the standard default gateway IPv4 address.

What is 192.168.0.1?

400

This Google-developed protocol is built on top of UDP to provide improved security and faster data transfer

What is QUIC?

(Quick UDP Internet Connections)

400

This popular brand of single board computers are used in robotics, home use, and industrial automation.

What is Raspberry Pi?

400

This 2017 Ransomware attack launched a worldwide crisis through a flaw in SMBv1

What is WannaCry?
400

This IPv4 address represents a "default route" in networking

What is 0.0.0.0/0?

400

This is the IPv4 address for Google's primary public DNS service

What is 8.8.8.8?

500

The Router SRG explicitly states that this "super" protocol must be disabled.

What is SUPDUP / Super Duper Telnet?

500

This farming management strategy employs sophisticated technology sensors and analysis tools to improve crop yields and assist in management decisions

What is Precision Agriculture?

500

This 1988 computer worm was widely distributed and destructive, leading to the first felony conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

What is the Morris Worm?

500

10.64.0.0/10 is an allocated address block for this cellular technology.

What is Carrier-Grade NAT?
500

This is the IPv4 address for CloudFlare's public DNS service.

What is 1.1.1.1?

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