Binary World
How Do we Communicate
Computer Networking Basics
The WWW
Network Protocol
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This is the term for a number in base 2, which uses only zeros and ones.
What is Binary?
100
This force is what makes electrons move through a wire, allowing our technology to work.
What is Voltage
100
This is the numerical reference to a particular device in a network
What is an IP (internet protocol) address?
100
Sharing its name with a sugary treat, this term describes a small text file stored on a user's local computer that remembers settings for a website.
What is a cookie?
100
This term describes the name of a website, and when typed into a URL will lead you to the homepage of the website.
What is a Domain Name?
200
A single zero or one is called this.
What is a bit?
200
This tool, often found as a box on a power cord, reduces the voltage from electrical sockets to a much lower voltage that the computer can handle.
What is an adapter?
200
This device handles request and returns data to other computers in a network.
What is a server?
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This term describes the physical form of the internet, in which interconnected servers and routers direct information to the right location through a series of "hops"
What is a mesh?
200
This is an email protocol that does not delete the email and its attachments from the server after it is retrieved.
What is the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)?
300
This process is when you run a python program, python converts your code into bytecode.
What is Compiling?
300
This relatively new technology allows users to speak commands to get answers to questions and search the internet.
What is a voice assistant?
300
This device is the part of a network that controls the flow of information among computers in a network.
What is a switch?
300
This service on the internet translates between an IP address and the domain names we enter into the URL bar.
What is a Domain Name System (or DNS)?
300
Daily Double:
This term refers to the precisely formatted unit of data that travels from one computer to another.
What is a data packet?
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This form of number, consisting of the digits 0-9 and A-F, is most often seen when choosing a color on a computer.
What is Hexadecimal?
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What is the binary number this graph represents?
00100110
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This term describes the degree to which a network can continue to function in spite of one or more of its processes or components breaking or becoming unavailable?
What is Fault-Tolerance?
400
This protocol, or set of rules, determines how web content should be sent and received; It is the most widely used protocol on the internet and also has a secure version.
What is HyperText Transfer Porotocol (or HTTP)?
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This term describes the tool that makes a request to a server, providing the domain name upon receiving an IP address.
What is a revolver?
500
Daily Double:
Convert this number in binary to base ten:
00101010
42
500
What is the base 10 number represented by the voltage graph below
54
500
This device utilized a MAC address to send data from one network to another.
What is a router?
500
This type of web page has content that can change based on how the user interacts with it.
What is a dynamic Webpage?
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This is the place that a revolver gets the IP address of a site that has not been visited before.
What is a name server?