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What is a male connector used for?
A cable connector that has pins and plugs into a port or interface to connect one device to another.
What does MDR stand for and what is its function?
Managed detection and response (MDR) is an outsourced service that provides organizations with threat hunting services and responds to threats once they are discovered.
What is a nameserver?
A computer that runs a program for converting Internet domain names into the corresponding IP addresses and vice versa.
Ethernet and Wifi are…
Network Interfaces / Network Adapters
What is a PC?
Usually refers to an IBM PC or compatible, or when used generically, to a “personal computer”. In a different context, PC also is an abbreviation for “politically correct.”
What is also known as a physical address?
MAC Address
What is a megabyte?
1,024 x 1,024 (2 to the 20th power) bytes; it’s usually sufficient to think of a megabytes as one million bytes.
Security protocol for wireless local area networks defined in the 802.11b standard. WEP provides the same level of security as that of a wired LAN.
WEP
What do you use to fix security vulnerabilities and other bugs, improving the usability or performance of a computer program?
A patch
A Windows feature that allows you to have access to a Windows session from another computer in a different location
Remote desktop
What is a mail server?
A networked computer dedicated to supporting electronic mail
What does MIME stand for and what does it do?
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions; a protocol that enables you to include various types of files (text, audio, video, images, etc.) as an attachment to an e-mail message.
What do you call a group of interconnected computers capable of exchanging information?
Network
What is a protocol? Mention one type
Protocols are different ways of communicating over the Internet. TCP and UDP are the most common protocols. The ICMP protocol is also used, but primarily so network devices can check each other’s status. Different protocols are ideal for different types of communication.
A device used for connecting two Local Area Networks (LANs); a device that passes traffic back and forth.
Router
MAC: What does it stand for and what does it mean
Media Access Control; The hardware address of a device connected to a shared network.
Is a larger network that covers a wider area. Your ISP provides you with a connection to their own ____, which connects to the Internet.
WAN
What is a network adapter?
A device that connects your computer to a network; also called an adapter card or network interface card.
What does RAM stand for and what is its function?
Random Access Memory provides space for your computer to read and write data so that the CPU can find it quickly and easily. When people refer to memory upgrades they are usually talking about RAM. Specifically, RAM stands for “Random Access Memory”
An interface on a computer that supports transmission of a single bit at a time; can be used for connecting almost any type of external device including a mouse, a modem, or a printer.
Serial Port
A means of using the Internet as the transmission medium for phone calls
VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol
Which is the authentication method in which the user is granted access only after successfully presenting 2 or more pieces of evidence to an authentication mechanism
Multi-Factor Authentication
A means of securely accessing resources on a network by connecting to a remote access server through the Internet or other network.
VPN: Virtual Private Networking
What does a port do?
When an application wants to send or receive traffic, it has to use a numbered port between 1 to 65535. This is how you can have multiple applications on a computer using the network and each application knows which traffic is for it.
serves as a controller, enabling networked devices to talk to each other efficiently. Through information sharing and resource allocation
Switch