Networks
This short-range network connects personal devices like cellphones, tablets, and audio headsets, often utilizing Bluetooth.
What is a PAN?
This specific function of the Operating System handles interacting with screens, keyboards, mice, and printers.
What is Input/Output (IO) control? /
What is Peripheral Management?
What is the output of 1 AND 0?
Without these sets of rules, no information can be transmitted because computers wouldn't know how to interpret the signals coming through the network.
What are protocols?
What does “404” mean in a web error?
What is "Not Found"?
This type of network connects geographically dispersed hosts, often belonging to a multinational company linked by leased lines.
What is a WAN (Wide Area Network)?
This license plate–reading camera system has raised concerns about constant monitoring and tracking of drivers.
What is Flock Safety?
What is the output of 1 OR 0?
What is 1?
In the context of networking, this term refers to ensuring the overall completeness, accuracy, and consistency of data as it travels.
What is data integrity?
Discovered by computer science pioneer Grace Hopper in 1947, the first literal computer "bug" was this specific type of insect found trapped in a Harvard Mark II relay.
What is a moth?
Flock cameras are often used by law enforcement, some worry about this type of overreach or excessive monitoring.
What is surveillance (or mass surveillance)?
This Operating System function is responsible for deciding which parts of memory are being used by running processes and which are free to be allocated.
What is memory management?
What is the output of NOT 0?
What is 1?
This mechanism is heavily utilized when a sending device can send data much faster than the receiver can digest it, keeping the transmission rate proportional.
What is flow control?
Invented by Douglas Engelbart in the 1960s, the casing of the very first computer mouse was carved out of this organic material.
What is Wood?
This type of network subgroup allows computers on a local network to be isolated securely without having to purchase extra physical hardware.
What is a VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network)?
What does SPF stand for?
Sun Protection Factor
What is the output of 1 XOR 1?
What is 0?
This term describes a network state where a link carries so much data that it deteriorates service quality, causing queuing delays and packet loss.
What is congestion?
In 1993, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov became the first person to play a video game in space when he packed his Nintendo Game Boy to play this block-stacking classic
What is Tetris?
This network is like a private internet restricted to users within an organization, and its pages are usually hosted on a machine within the building.
What is an intranet?
In 1957, this stray dog from the streets of Moscow made history by becoming the first animal to orbit the Earth aboard the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2.
Who is Laika?
What logic gate outputs 1 only when both inputs are the same?
What is XNOR?
Protocols queue traffic sequentially to prevent this system-halting situation, which occurs when two nodes try to access the same node at exactly the same moment.
What is deadlock?
Fearful of foreign invasion, the communist dictator Enver Hoxha isolated his country and ordered the construction of over 170,000 concrete military bunkers across this small Balkan nation.
What is Albania?