Hardware
Vendors provide hosted computers, an operating system, and possibly a DBMS.
What is Platform as a service (PaaS)?
Provides hardware infrastructure, operating system and application programs on a subscription basis over a network—usually the Internet/Web.
What is Software as a service (SaaS)?
A collection of computers that communicate with one another over transmission lines or wireless.
What is a Network?
The elastic leasing of pooled computer resources over the Internet.
What is the Cloud
The amount of resources leased can be increased or decreased dynamically, programmatically, in a short span of time, and organizations pay for just the resources that they use.
What is Economies of Scale?
A special-purpose computer that receives and transmits wired traffic on the LAN.
What is a Switch?
A markup language like html but is machine-readable and was designed to enable the exchange of structured data over the Web.
What is XML (Extensible Markup Language)?
A set of rules that two communicating devices follow.
What is a protocol?
The 5 protocol layers used by the Internet.
What is TCP/IP protocol architecture?
When someone visits a brick and mortar store to examine and evaluate products without the intention of them buying at that store.
What is showrooming?
An arrangement of user computers and servers into three categories, or tiers: user, server, and database.
What is three-tier architecture?
A document encoded in HTML that is created, transmitted, and consumed using the World Wide Web.
What is a Web page?
This operates on the same lines as voice telephones, but so that its signals do not interfere with voice telephone service. DSLs use their own protocols for data transmission.
What is a Digital subscriber line (DSL)?
The protocol used between browsers and Web servers.
The amount of resources leased can be increased or decreased dynamically, programmatically, in a short span of time, and organizations pay for just the resources that they use.
What is elastic?
The cloud hosting of a bare server computer or disk drive.
What is Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)?
In HTML, a variable used to provide properties about a tag.
What is an Attribute?
A technology that allows devices to connect wirelessly to a LAN.
What is Wi-Fi (Wide Fidelity)?
A protocol that identifies an address for every device connected to the Internet.
The sharing of digital resources by many different organizations.
What is pooled?
A program that processes the HTTP protocol and transmits Web pages on demand. Web servers also process application programs.
What is a Web server?
A HTML notation used to define a data element for display or other purposes
What is a tag?
A wireless local area networking protocol.
What is IEEE 802.11 protocol?
An agreement that specifies how the data will move among providers.
The approach where all data moving on the Internet is treated equally
What is Net Neutrality