Intro to CS Rutgers Exam 1 Flashcards

A piece of hardware or software having a specific IP address connected to network nodes for data transfer between computers.

<p>An electronic device that enables transmission of data to or from a computer via telephone or other communication lines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A computer system that is accessed by a user working at a remote location.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An application that runs on a personal computer or workstation and relies on a server for operations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Processing locations that can be a computer or other devices like printers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A computer or device on a network that manages network resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An expansion board you insert into a computer to connect to a network.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The shape of the local-area network (LAN) or communications system, which can be either physical or logical.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An agreed-upon format for transmitting data between two devices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Local-area network.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wide-area network.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Metropolitan-area network.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>File transfer protocol.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pieces of a message transmitted over a packet switching network.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of communication where a dedicated channel is established for the duration of a transmission.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A protocol where messages are divided before sending, with each transmitted individually.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Communications where data is transmitted intermittently rather than as a steady stream.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Communication where data occurs at regular intervals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bits per second.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The period of time that one component in a system is waiting for another component.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of network where each workstation has equivalent capabilities and responsibilities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A network where one centralized computer (server) connects to multiple less powerful computers (clients).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Networks that use wireless data connections for connecting nodes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A short-range radio technology aimed at simplifying communications between devices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A specific geographic location providing public wireless broadband network services.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A global network connecting millions of computers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>World Wide Web.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An IP address that does not change.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An IP address that changes over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Communications protocols for identifying and locating computers on networks; IPv6 is intended to replace IPv4.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hypertext Markup Language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organization composed of engineers, scientists, and students.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Messages given to the web browser by the web server, which are stored in a text file.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Data transmission where a single medium carries multiple channels at once.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Digital Subscriber Line, a high-speed internet connection method using telephone lines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A software application used to locate, retrieve, and display content on the World Wide Web.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Programs that search documents for specified keywords and return lists of matching documents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Internet Message Access Protocol.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Voice Over Internet Protocol.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Domain Name System.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Internet Engineering Task Force.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Secure Sockets Layer / Transport Layer Security.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Programs that automatically fetch web pages to feed them to search engines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A special HTML tag that provides information about a web page.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A new breed of web-based applications mixing at least two different services to enhance security.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Internet Service Provider.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uniform Resource Locator.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An email that falsely claims to be a legitimate enterprise to scam the user into surrendering private information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describes ways hardware and software can be fooled.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method to obtain personal or private information through domain spoofing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Electronic junk mail or junk postings in newsgroups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The security level of personal data published via the internet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A program or piece of code loaded onto your computer without your knowledge, running against your wishes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A program or algorithm that replicates itself over a network and usually performs malicious actions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A destructive program masquerading as a benign application.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Computers implanted with daemons controlled by a malicious hacker without the owner's knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Software that gathers user information covertly through the internet connection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Software that contains embedded advertisements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An object embedded in a web page or email that allows checking user access.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Secure File Transfer Protocol, a method for transferring files securely over a data stream.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The translation of data into a secret code.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pretty Good Privacy, a technique for encrypting messages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cryptographic system using a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of encryption where the same key is used for both encryption and decryption.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The art of protecting information by transforming it into cipher text.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encrypted data that is unreadable until decrypted with a key.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A simple substitution cipher shifting letters in the alphabet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A digital code attached to an electronically transmitted message to identify the sender.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a network.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The repeated use of electronic communications to harass or frighten someone.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An anonymous internet communication system based on a distributed network.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A multinational media organization that publishes large datasets of censored materials.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A mobile app allowing users to send self-destructing videos and pictures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An application that combines the ease of text messaging with the privacy of phone calls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to users.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An optical head-mounted display designed like eyeglasses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The art of hiding information by embedding messages within other messages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Online harassment through electronic communications.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A network constructed using public wires to connect to a private network.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Distinctive, measurable characteristics used to label and describe individuals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Programs designed for end users, like word processors and web browsers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of picking out common features of objects and procedures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A format for data representation using strings of 0 and 1.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A base-8 number system using symbols 0-7.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A base-16 number system using symbols 0-9 and A-F.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Physical objects that you can touch, like disks and keyboards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Computer instructions or data stored electronically.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Allows the operating system to inform an SSD about unused blocks that can be wiped.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Radio Frequency Identification.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Binary digit; the smallest unit of information on a machine, holding values of 0 or 1.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A unit of storage capable of holding a single character, equal to 8 bits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A silicon chip that contains a CPU and performs computer processing functions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The basic set of commands that a microprocessor understands.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>American Standard Code for Information Interchange.</p> Signup and view all the answers