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What does abstraction mean?
Abstraction refers to reducing information and facilitate focus on relevant concepts
What is bandwith?
The amount of resources available to transmit the data.
What is crowdsourcing?
Tapping into the collective intelligence of a large group of people to achieve a specific goal or solve a problem.
What is data abstraction?
The process of managing complexity by using a list or array to store related data without focusing on the individual elements’ implementation.
What is Encryption?
Taking text and converting it so it is illegible
What does AND do in conditionals
AND states that every part of a statement must be true for the entire statement to be true.
What is Big data?
Sets of data that are larger than a consumer software application can handle
What does it mean if a problem is Computationally hard?
The problem takes too long even for a computer to find the exact solution
What are datagrams?
Similar to packets, used in unreliable protocols such as UDP
What is Ethical computing?
Demands that users and developers hold themselves to a higher standard. Refers to the principles, values, standards, and practices that guide individuals and groups in doing what is right
Describe application in terms of computer science.
Almost everything on the computer except saved files and the operating system, including word processors, photo editing software, web browsers, games, and music programs
What is binary search?
A searching algorithm, used on sorted lists, that divides the number of elements to search in half until it is down to one element.
What is citizen science?
A type of scientific research that is conducted, in whole or in part, by distributed individuals who contribute relevant data to research using their own computing devices.
What does DDos stand for and what is it?
DDos stands for Distributed denial-of-service attack
It's when hackers flood a site with fake request making all the site’s recourses unavailable for legitimate users.
What does EULA stand for?
End-user license agreement
What does ARPANET stand for?
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, first agency to use TCP/IP
How many bits is a byte?
8
What is a CPU and what does it stand for?
A CPU carries out every command or process on the computer and can be thought of as the brain of the computer.
CPU-Central processing unit
What does DNS stand for and what is it?
DNS stands for Domain Name System
It's one of the smaller networks that make up the Internet. It contains many servers that act like phone books.
What is Fault-Tolerant?
A property of IP. If there is an error, it still works properly
What does ASCII stand for?
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
What is boolean logic?
A branch of algebra where variables can only have two values: true or false
What is cloud computing?
A type of distributed computing that involves using a network of remote servers to store, manage, and process data.
What is Design – Implement – Test?
The three steps of the iterative development process
What is Graphical User Interface (GUI)?
An interface that uses images to represent a system’s folders and files