Networking
A network residing in one site
What is a LAN or Local Area Network?
A billion instructions per scond
What is Gigahertz?
Volatile storage in a PC that holds the operating system when loaded.
What is RAM?
The number system used by computers.
What is binary?
Virus, worm, trojan, ransomware, spyware
What is malware?
A network that spans a large geographical area.
What is a WAN or a Wide Area Network.
Data and programs both stored in memory
What is the Von Neuman architecture
1024GB
What is 1 Terabyte in gigabytes?
111
What is 7 in binary?
Sending emails pretending to be from reputable companies to try and get people to reveal personal information
What is PHISHING?
Centralised backups
What is one of the benefits of a network over stand alone PC's
A register where results of calculations are held
What is the accumulator?
Very durable and large storage with no moving parts. Used to be the boot device in many PC's.
What is a solid state hard drive?
An agreed standard for representing keyboard characters on computers.
What is ASCII?
A trial and error method of attempting passwords
What is a Brute Force Attack?
Forwards data packets from one network to another.
What does a router do?
Holds the address of the next instructions
Program counter
Uses a laser to reflect off a disk to read 0's and 1's
What is optical storage?
A number system used in computer science that uses letters and numbers.
What is HEX?
A technique used to trick people into revealing confidential information
What is social engineering?
A non intelligent piece of networking equipment.
What is a hub?
Performs operations such as 5+8
What is the Arithmetic Logic Unit
A basic operating system used to boot a PC, stored in ROM.
What is BIOS?
10011101
What is 157 in 8 bit binary?
A program designed to verify that a human has answered the question, rather than a bot.
What is CAPTCHA?