Wireless Networking
A standard that requires entering a password when connecting to a network and employs encryption to protect your data.
What is WPA2?
Makes possible that multiple computers in a classroom access the same shared drive to store project files.
What is a network?
An agreed upon set of rules to accomplish a task.
What is a protocol?
When sending messages from one network to another network, it is the device that determines a path and forwards the packet onward.
What is a router?
The network connection can't support other conversations and a failure in one path will cause the entire connection to drop.
What are downsides to circuit switching?
What is a drawback of wireless networking?
A networked connected device requesting information such as a Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) connecting to a command center to request updated flight instructions and weather data before its next mission.
What is a client?
A protocol that could be used to move a 200 MB dataset from your desktop to a server for processing.
What is FTP?
When several computers are connected together to share resources and files, it is the device that relays messages on the local area network.
What is a switch?
Your printer keeps losing its IP address every time the router restarts. To prevent this, you configure it with a permanent, unchanging IP.
What is an example of a static IP configuration?
What is an example of a man-in-the-middle attack?
A networked device that provides information such as a machine at Microsoft the provides the latest security patches and software updates.
What is a server?
A protocol that that moves messages between email servers, allowing you to send an email to a friends Gmail account.
What is SMTP?
What is a duplicate IP address?
Process which extends the reach of IPv4 addresses, allowing hosts with private IP addresses to communicate with and receive data from hosts on the internet.
What is NAT?
Increased flexibility in positioning of network hosts and reduced infrastructure needs.
What are advantages of wireless networking?
Data being send from one computer to another over a network.
What is a message?
Used when you type a URL into the address bar of a browser, this protocol defines how your computer requests the webpage and how the server responds with the site's content.
What is HTTP?
A mechanism employed by the operating system to ensure that network traffic received by a host are routed to the correct application.
What is a logical port?
A lookup service contacted to resolve names your computer can't understand such as www.google.com.
What is DNS?
Cellular, bluetooth, and IEEE 802.11
What are types of wireless networking?
A type of network device, such a client or server, that is capable of sending or receiving data.
What is a host?
A protocol that frees network administers from manually configuring IP addresses as it automatically provides a device with an IP address when it joins the network.
What is DHCP?
A process by which several host can use the same internet pathways to transmit portions of a message.
What is packet switching?
An address that doesn't change when you move from network to network because it is tied to the device's physical hardware.
What is a MAC address?