A network that allows two or more devices located close to each other to communicate or to connect a device to the Internet
What is PAN (personal area network)?
100
Refers to the steps a computer owner takes to prevent unauthorized use of or damage to the computer.
What is security?
100
Detects spyware and deletes them
What is anti-spyware software?
200
A network with server that acts as the central storage location.
What is client/server network?
200
Your local workstation, work station, and server, printer.
What is network configuration?
200
Uses infrared light waves to beam data from one device to another
What is infrared technology?
200
Describes any program that is intended to cause harm or convey information to others without the owner’s permission.
What is malware?
200
Software installed with another program usually with the user’s permission and generates advertising revenue for the program’s creator by displaying targeted ads to the program’s user.
What is adware?
300
A network without a server and all of the computers are equal.
What is peer-to-peer network?
300
Computers and peripherals located close to each other.
What is LAN (local area network)?
300
Uses short range radio waves to connect a device wirelessly to another device or to the Internet
What is Bluetooth?
300
Harmful programs that instruct your computer to perform destructive activities, such as erasing a disk drive.
What is viruses?
300
Prevents other computers on the Internet from accessing a computer and prevents programs on a computer from accessing the Internet without the computer user’s permission and can be either hardware or software
What is firewall?
400
A personal computer that is not connected to a network.
What is standalone computer?
400
More than one LAN connected together and the Internet is the largest example of a WAN.
What is WAN (wide area network)?
400
Allows computers to connect over many miles to a LAN, and a WiMAX tower sends signals to a WiMAX receiver built or plugged into a computer.
What is WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access)?
400
Searches executable files for the sequences of characters that may cause harm and disinfects the files by erasing or disabling those commands.
What is antivirus software (virus protection software)
400
A device that controls traffic between network components, usually has a built-in firewall, and software firewalls track all incoming and outgoing traffic.
What is router?
500
A personal computer that is connected to a network.
What is workstation?
500
Computers and peripherals that use high-frequency radio waves instead of wires to communicate and connect in a network and Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) describes WLANs connected using a standard radio frequency established by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
What is WLAN (wireless local area network)?
500
Sending site, digital signal, analog signal, modern, digital signal, and receiving site.
What is using modems to send and receive data?
500
Programs contained with other programs that track a computer user’s Internet usage and send this data back to the company or person that created it and usually installed without the computer user’s permission or knowledge
What is spyware?
500
A Web site set up to look like another Web site, but which does not belong to the organization portrayed in the site; the URL (address on the Web) looks similar to a URL from the legitimate site, and usually set up to try to convince customers of the real site to enter personal information.