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A nonprofit organization that develops standards for the computer and electronics industries.
What is Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
100
a device that interfaces a computer with a network.
What is network adapter
100
A network the covers a large campus or city.
What is MAN (metropolitan area network)
100
A computer network that covers only a small area, usually within one building.
What is LAN (local area network)
100
A commercial group that provides Internet access for a monthly fee.
What is Internet service provider (ISP)
200
Term for each of the four 8-bit numbers that make up an IP address. For example, the IP address 206.96.103.114 has four octets.
What is octet
200
An expansion card that plugs into a computer’s motherboard and provides a port on the back of the card to connect a PC to a network. Also called a network adapter.
What is network interface card (NIC)
200
A 32-bit address consisting of four numbers separated by periods, used to uniquely identify a device on a network that uses TCP/IP protocols. The first numbers identify the network; the last numbers identify a host.
What is IP address
200
An operating system that resides on the controlling computer in the network. The ___ controls what software, data, and devices a user on the network can access.
What is network operating system (NOS)
200
Mounting a drive to a computer, such as drive E, that is actually hard drive space on another host computer on the network.
What is network drive map
300
A process that converts private IP addresses on a LAN to the proxy server’s IP address before a data packet is sent over the Internet
What is NAT (Network Address Translation)
300
A process in which a message is sent by one host to multiple hosts, such as when a video conference is broadcast to several hosts on the Internet.
What is multicasting
300
A printer that any user on the network can access, through its own network card and connection to the network, through a connection to a standalone print server, or through a connection to a computer as a local printer, which is shared on the network.
What is network printer
300
The process of associating a NetBIOS name or host name to an IP address.
What is name resolution
300
Microsoft’s version of the IPX/SPX protocol suite used by Novell NetWare operating systems.
What is NWLink
400
A text file located in the Windows folder that contains NetBIOS names and their associated IP addresses. This file is used for name resolution for a NetBEUI network.
What is LMHosts
400
A network consisting of personal devices at close range such as a cell phone, PDA, and notebook computer in communication
What is PAN (personal area network)
400
A network cable that is used to connect a PC to a hub, switch, or router.
What is patch cable
400
Segment of network data that also includes header, destination address, and trailer information that is sent as a unit
What is Packet
400
An API protocol used by some applications to communicate over a NetBEUI network. _________ has largely been replaced by Windows Sockets over a TCP/IP network
What is NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System)
500
A Windows and Unix command used to troubleshoot network connections. It verifies that the host can communicate with another host on the network.
What is Ping (Packet Internet Groper)
500
A network of computers that are all equals, or peers. Each computer has the same amount of authority, and each can act as a server to the other computers.
What is peer-to-peer network
500
A fast, proprietary Microsoft networking protocol used only by Windows-based systems, and limited to LANs because it does not support routing.
What is NetBEUI (NetBIOS Extended User Interface)
500
A networking protocol suite first used by Novell NetWare, and which corresponds to the TCP/IP protocols
What is IPX/SPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange)
500
A private network that uses the TCP/IP protocols.
What is intranet