This network of 150,000+ servers in over 90 countries brings control and visibility to the Internet
What is the Akamai Intelligent Platform?
100
The most granular object in the content model hierarchy
What is a “Property”?
100
These two Akamai products are the flagship solutions for Consumer and Web Performance
What are Ion Premier and Alta?
100
This behavior controls the duration an object can be served from cache without revalidating with the origin
What is Time-to-Live?
100
The Akamai feature extends cacheability by including additional entities in the cache key, allowing for a more precise caching strategy.
What is Dynamic Page Caching?
200
When describing a typical request flow that includes Cache Hierarchy, this section describes the communication between the Edge and parent servers
What is the “middle mile” of the Internet?
200
This unique identifying number is used for reporting and billing segments.
What is a CP Code?
200
This Akamai product brings the power of the Akamai Intelligent Platform to address DNS resolution challenges.
What is Fast DNS?
200
This cache setting disallows caching on the Akamai Intelligent Platform and downstream caches.
What is “No-Store”?
200
This Akamai feature will test multiple routes at request time, and in the event that one or more routes is down, will automatically route around those problems.
What is SureRoute?
300
The Mapping System
What is Akamai's secret sauce?
300
It enables you to select the group or property you want to manage.
What is the Context Selector?
300
This Akamai feature provides the ability to offload hits from origin infrastructure by storing content on the Akamai Intelligent Platform.
What is “Caching”?
300
This cache setting allows an object to be cached but forces revalidation with the origin for every request of the cached object.
What is a “Zero-Second (0s) TTL”?
300
This cache hierarchy feature should NOT be used when content is marked as no-store or bypass cache.
What is “Tiered Distribution”?
400
This operating system was developed by Akamai and runs on all of the Akamai Edge servers.
What is Ghost?
400
This interface within Luna is used to configure Akamai products and services.
What is “Property Manager”?
400
This Akamai product improves the performance of IP-based apps, such as SSL VPN-based apps, FTP, and Virtual Desktop Solutions.
What is “IP Application Accelerator (IPA)”?
400
This tool enables you to remove objects from cache but should not be your primary cache management method.
What is the Content Control Utility?
400
This Akamai feature supports header compression and multiplexing to enable multiple concurrent streams over a single TCP connection.
What is SPDY?
500
Latency limits throughput…
…and throughput limits the time to download large files
What is the “fat file paradox”?
500
These two domains are configured in Luna and are used to point a digital property at one of the Akamai networks through a DNS CNAME record.