TLAs and More
DNS
What is the Domain Name System?
The maximum data capacity that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time, usually measured in bit rate or bits per second (bps)
What is bandwidth?
A hierarchical decentralized system that translates user-friendly domain names into numerical IP addresses used by computers to locate and connect to websites or resources on the internet
What is DNS?
Data with values that change continuously, or smoothly, over time; infinite values
What is Analog?
A variable with a binary data type, having two possible values called “true” and “false”
What is a Boolean?
HTML
What is Hypertext Markup Language?
Time it takes for a bit to travel from one place to another
What is Latency?
A human-readable and memorable name used to identify and access specific resources or websites, corresponding to a unique numerical IP address
What is a domain?
Data that changes discreetly through a finite set of possible values; discrete or finite values
What is Digital?
A contraction of "Binary Digit"; the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1
What is a Bit?
HTTP
What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol?
The number of bits that can be transmitted over a given period of time
What is Bit Rate?
The highest level in the hierarchical domain name system, representing the last portion of a web address and categorizing websites by generic or country-specific identifiers
What is a Top Level Domain (TLD)?
A process for creating a digital representation of analog data by measuring the analog data at regular intervals called samples
What is Sampling?
8 bits
What is a Byte?
ISP
What is an Internet Service Provider?
A high-speed networking technology that utilizes light to transmit data signals, offering minimal signal loss, but it is expensive and can be challenging to work with
What is Fiber Optics?
A division of a main domain that allows for further categorization or organization of content within a website, often used as a prefix before the main domain name
What is a Subdomain?
The “horizontal chunks” (vertical split) used to convert analog audio signals into digital signals - the axis for this split is time (frequency)
What is Sample Rate?
A system of representing information using only two options (0/1, Base 2)
What is Binary?
TCP
What is Transmission Control Protocol?
Cost-effective networking technology that uses electricity to transmit data signals with minimal loss over short wired (usually copper) connections
What is Ethernet?
A DNS server responsible for providing the official and accurate IP address information for a specific domain name
What is an Authoritative Name Server (ANS)?
The “vertical chunks” (horizontal split) used to convert analog audio signals into digital signals - the axis for this split is amplitude
What is Bit Depth?
A boolean operation which results in true when both the left and right operands are both true
What is AND (&&)?