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Chapter 3- Acronyms Flashcards

1
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TCP

A

Transmission Control Protocol

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2
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IP

A

Internet Protocol

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3
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UDP

A

Under Datagram Protocol

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4
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ICMP

A

Internet Control Message Protocol

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5
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ARP

A

Address Resolution Protocol (IPv4)

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6
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MAC

A

Media Access Control (addresses)

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7
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NDP

A

Neighbor Discovery Protocol (IPv6)

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8
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DoS

A

Denial of Service

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9
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SSH

A

Secure Shell

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10
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SCP

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Secure Copy Protocol

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11
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SSL

A

Secure Socket Layer

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12
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TLS

A

Transport Layer Security

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13
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IPsec

A

Internet Protocol Security

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14
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PII

A

Personally Identifiable Information

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15
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SFTP

A

Secure File Transfer Protocol

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16
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IKE

A

Internet Key Exchange

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17
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HTTP

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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18
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HTTPS

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

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19
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OSI

A

Open Systems Interconnection

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20
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HTML

A

Hypertext Markup Language

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21
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FTP

A

File Transfer Protocol

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22
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SFTP

A

Secure File Transfer Protocol

23
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FTPS

A

File Transfer Protocol Secure

24
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TFTP

A

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

25
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SNMP

A

Simple Network Management Protocol

26
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NetBIOS

A

Network basic Input / output system

27
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LDAP

A

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

28
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RDP

A

Remote Desktop Protocol

29
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URL

A

Uniform Resource Location

30
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SMTP

A

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

31
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POP3

A

Post Office Protocol V 3

32
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IMAP4

A

Instant Message Access Protocol V 4

33
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ISP

A

Internet Service Provider

34
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CIDR Notation

A

Classless Inter-domain Routing Notation (instead of writing out subnet masks completely, they are often written in CIDR Notation)

35
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DNS

A

Domain Name System

Purpose is to resolve host names to IP addresses

36
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A

A

Host Record for IPv4

37
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AAAA

A

Host record for IPv6

38
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PTR

A 
Pointer Record 
(look up with an IP address instead of a domain name)
39
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MX

A

Mail Exchanger

40
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CNAME

A

Canonical Name

41
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BIND Software

A

Berkeley Internet Name Domain software

42
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NICs

A

Network Interface Cards

43
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STP

A

Spanning Tree Protocol

44
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RSTP

A

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

45
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VLANs

A

Virtual Local Area Network

46
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WAF

A

Web Application Firewall

47
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DMZ

A

Demilitarized Zone

48
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NAT

A

Network Address Translation

49
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PAT

A

Port Address Translation ( a commonly used form of NAT)

50
Q

UTM

A

Unified Threat Management

51
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WSA

A

Web Security Appliance

52
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DLP

A

Data Loss Prevention

53
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OSI

A

Open Systems Interconnection

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