A suite protocol that allows the transfer of files between two computers or one server and one computer
What is FTP, or File Transfer Protocol?
100
A development methodology that makes an applications source code available to anyone
What is Open Source?
100
Examples are, .zip.bz2, .bz, .gz, .z, .rar
What are Compression Utilities?
100
No, not considered a body of water but, an OSX Stuffit self-extracting compressed file.
What is .sea?
200
A WinZip PKZIP compressed file
What is .zip?
200
A program used with Secure Shell to transfer files between systems
What is SCP, or Secure Copy Protocol?
200
Subscribers to an emailing list through a list server
What is Listserve Group?
200
A program that allows you to control a computer at a remote location
What is Virtual Network Computing, or VNC?
200
Not to be confused with .sea, an OSX Stuffit compressed file
What is .sit?
300
This extension is an executable file
What is .exe?
300
File transfer protocol that allows the encryption of transmissions using secure shell
What is SSH File Transfer Protocol?
300
A server the collects and distributes information for authorized groups.
What is a List Server?
300
A Peer oriented network on the internet. A network in which each computer has both server and client capabilities
What is Peer-to-Peer network, or P2P?
300
A Platform neutral compression standard.
What is .rar?
400
This is an ASCII text file
What is .asc?
400
FTP that runs on an SSL/TLS-secured connection
What is SSL/TLS-enabled FTP or FTPS?
400
A file containing data or instructions written in zeroes and ones
What is a Binary File?
400
Software that is legal property of an entity
What is Proprietary Software?
400
A set of exclusive rights granted to an individual or company that claims to have invented a unique procedure or feature, and then seeks to protect that invention
What is Patent?
500
A UNIX tape archive file
What is .tar?
500
A copyright license that enables users to modify and redisctribute the software's and redistribute the softaware's source code without restriction
What is Open Source License?
500
A legal contract between the software's author and the end-user who uses the software