Brenda; Hardware
What is the CPU
Set of instructions that tell a computer what to do
What is Software?
The Maximum speed at which data can be transmitted between two nodes on a network; usually measures in Megabits per second (Mbps)
What is Bandwidth?
Two networking devices that are commonly combined
What are routers and Modems.
A unique number that identifies a computer, server or device connected to the internet.
What is an IP Address?
a drive that uses a laser to read information
What is an Optical Drive
Copyrighted software that you can use for free
What is freeware?
A navigation aid that shows users the path they have taken to get to a web page or where the page is located within the website; it usually appears at the top of a page.
What is a breadcrumb trail?
P2P (Peer to Peer) does not need this in order to work.
What is a dedicated NOS (Networking Operating System)
The first browser that could handle and process graphics and text.
What is the Mosaic Browser?
A component on the motherboard that serves as temporary storage for data.
What is RAM?
An application that is still under development
What is a beta version?
Small blocks of memoery, located directly on and next to the CPU chip, that acts as holding places for recently or frequently used instructions or data that accesses the most.
What is cache memory?
PAN, LAN, HAN, WAN, and MAN
What are the types of networks?
A protocol created for the transfer of hypertext documents over the internet.
What is HTTP? (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
A very important component to a computer that gives power to the computer.
What is a Power Supply?
A small program that performs many of the general housekeeping tasks for your computer
What is a Utility program
a program that runs on the client computer and the requires no interaction with a web server
What is client-side program?
What is a device that terminates a signal to prevent it bouncing back into the network.
What is a network terminator
The part of a network address that identifies it as belonging to a particular domain.
What is a Domain Name? Ex. "google"
A computer within a computer
What is an embedded computer?
The process of optimizing RAM storage by borrowing hard drive space
What is Virtual memory
the set of specific, sequential steps that sequential exactly what a computer program must do to complete the work
What is algorithm?
Allows many devices to connect and communicate on a network
What is a Networking Switch?
The two keys used in public encryption (One for coding, one for decryption)
What is a Key pair