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two or more connected computers plus the various peripheral devices that are attached to them
What is a Network
100
covers a large geographical area and typically consists of several smaller networks
What is WAN or Wide Area Network?
100
The number of organizations that were a part of ARPANET in 1969
What is 4?
100
an electronic document that is transmitted over a computer network.
What is E-Mail?
100
A collection of hyperlinked documents that can be accessed via the Internet
What is the World Wide Web?
200
What each object connected to a network is known as
What is a Node
200
a private LAN that uses Internet Technology
What is an Intranet?
200
The capacity of an Internet connection is sometimes referred to as
What is bandwidth?
200
Email messages have a standard format that consists of two major sections, they are...
What is the header & the body?
200
Clickable links between web pages
What are hypertext links?
300
a device that links two or more nodes of a network and is able to ship data from one network to another.
What is a Router
300
In a network, the computer at your workstation or desk is know as
What is the Client?
300
Each computer’s location on the Internet has a specific numeric address consisting of four groups of numbers know as
What is an IP Address?
300
E-Mail accessed via a Web Browser
What is Web-Mail?
300
A collection of related web pages
What is a Web Site?
400
is a set of rules for efficiently transmitting data from one network device to another
What is a Communications Protocol?
400
A network where each node on the network can communicate with every other node
What is a peer to peer network (P2P)?
400
The text version of a computer’s address is called
What is a Domain Name?
400
Is unique to an email address, no one else can have one like it.
What is a username or user ID?
400
a set of instructions that tells a web browser how to display the document or web page
What is HTML or hypertext markup language?
500
a popular type of network which transmits data from one device to another using radio waves (also called RF signals)
What is a Wi-Fi or wireless network?
500
a server that is designed to handle a specific task
What is a dedicated server?
500
the technique of breaking a message into individual packets, sending the packets along the best route available, and reassembling the data.
What is Packet Switching?
500
The extension after the @ sign in an E-Mail address
What is the Domain Name?
500
The abbreviation HTTP stands for
What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol?
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