Hardwhere
Down Memory Lane
Who's your Data?
We are all connected
Potent Potables (Security)
100

This company was founded in Mountain View, California, in 1968 by Gordon E. Moore, and was responsible for the first microprocessor

What is Intel?

100

This is the main memory bank that processors interact with.

What is RAM

100

It's a collection of data so large and complex that it is difficult to manage using traditional database management systems

What is Big Data?

100

This is the transmission capacity of a network.

What is Bandwidth? 

100

These are small amounts of information that websites store on your computer

What are Cookies?

200

Formed in a garage in Palo Alto California, this company went on to develop innovations like the "Smart Phone"

What is Apple?

200

Hard drives and solid state drives are part of this form of memory storage devices

What is Non-volatile memory?

200

This is Data collected about user behavior and browsing patterns, for example

What is Clickstream Data?

200

This is the name assigned to an Internet site.

What is a Domain Name?

200
This is a system that prevents a specific type of information from being moved between untrusted networks.

What is a Firewall?

300

Located in Kobe, Japan, this is largest supercomputer in the world

What is Fugaku?

300

This is where information going to and from processors is stored

What are Registers?

300

This is a collection of logically related records

What is a Data File?

300

This a network that connects communication devices in a limited geographic region

What is a Local Area Network?

300

This is malicious software such as viruses and worms

What is Malware?

400

First delivered in 1965 to Livermore and Los Alamos, this was the first piece of hardware known as a "Supercomputer" 

What is the CDC 6600

400

This is the largest unit of memory currently defined for computer memory

What is a Yottabyte?

400

This is a repository of of historical data that are organized by subject to support decision makers in the organization.

What is a Data Warehouse?

400

This is the protocol that automatically assigns domain names to internet sites

what is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol? 

400

This is an encryption standard used for secure transactions such as credit card purchases and online banking

What is the Transport Security Layer?

500

Developed by MITS in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this became the first commercially available personal computer

What is the Altair 8800

500

This was the predominant form of Random Access Memory from about 1955 and 1975  

What is Magnetic Core Memory?

500

This is acentral repository that stores all of an organizations data, regardless of it's source or format.

What is a Data Lake?

500

This is a new, faster telecommunications network that deploys advanced network applications

What is Internet2?

500

This is a cyberattack where an attacker sends a flood of data packets to the target computer with the aim of overloading its resources

What is a Denial-of-Service Attack?

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