What is the identification label that defines a realm of administrative control on the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS)?
100
Server
Any combination of hardware or software designed to provide services to clients.
100
Router
What is a device or, in some cases, software in a computer, that determines the next network point to which a packet should be forwarded toward its destination?
100
WHOIS
What is the part of the DNS which allows you to look up who owns a particular domain name or IP address?
200
IP address
What is an unique number which identifies a computer and its location on the internet?
200
Host
In computer networking, what can store information resources as well as application software for providing network services?
200
DNS Server
What is the naming scheme mechanism used to help resolve a domain name / host name to a specific TCP/IP Address?
200
Packet
What is the unit of data that is routed between an origin and a destination on the Internet?
200
Query
What is the specification for a set of data to retrieve from a data source?
300
Proxy
What is a computer network service that allows clients to make indirect network connections to other network services?
300
Sub domain
What is a way to divide your site into sections with short and easy to remember names?
300
Root Server
What is the central computer on the Internet that stores information about all the registered domain names. (Internet specifications currently limit the number of root servers to 13)
300
Client
node: any computer that is hooked up to a computer network.
300
Request
What is technical term for a command to the server?
400
TCP/IP
What is a set of protocols (including TCP) developed for the internet in the 1970s to get data from one network device to another
400
Host name
What is the label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication such as the World Wide Web?
400
Server load
What is the number usually under the x.xx format and can have values starting from 0.00. It expresses how may processes are waiting in the queue to access the processor(s)?
400
Port
What is generally a specific place for being physically connected to some other device, usually with a socket and plug of some kind?
400
ICANN
What is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers?
500
ISP
An internet service provider (ISP), also sometimes referred to as an Internet access provider (IAP), is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet.
500
Top-Level Domains
Terms referring to all the suffixes on the end of the domain name proper: .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .US, etc.
500
Server Redundancy
What do we call that multiple servers are used to perform the same task?
500
Firewall
What is the part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications?
500
TTL
What is the field used in a protocol (such as DNS or ICMP) to indicate how many more network hops are allowed before the packet is dropped (discarded) (and, in terms of a TCP protocol as opposed to a UDP protocol) an error returned to the sender.