Deck one

Question 1

What does network mean?

Answer 1

A connection of two or more devices so they can share data or recourses.

Question 2

What Is a LAN?

Answer 2

Local area network (a network covering a small area).

Question 3

What is a WLAN?

Answer 3

Wireless local area network (a LAN which is wireless).

Question 4

What is a WAN?

Answer 4

A wide area network. A network covering a large area.

Question 5

What is a client-server network?

Answer 5

A network with at least one server to provide services to client computers.

Question 6

What is a peer to peer network?

Answer 6

A network with no central server, each computer can act as a server.

Question 7

What is a network topology?

Answer 7

Describes how the devices on the network are connected.

Question 8

What is the internet?

Answer 8

A worldwide system of interconnected networks that enable information to be shared.

Question 9

What is communication media?

Answer 9

The means by which data is transmitted between devices on a network.

Question 10

What is protocol?

Answer 10

A set of rules that govern how communications on a network should be formatted and what they should include.

Question 11

What does eavesdrop?

Answer 11

Having unauthorised sight of data being sent from one computer to another over a network.

Question 12

Bandwidth.

Answer 12

Amount of data per unit of time.

Question 13

Checksum.

Answer 13

Error detection, formula applied to data and answer is transmitted with data and checked on the other end.

Question 14

Packet.

Answer 14

A small quantity of data.

Question 15

Web server.

Answer 15

Powerful computer storing web pages and media content.

Question 16

Denial of service (DoS)

Answer 16

An attack on a network attempting to prevent legitimate users from accessing it.

Question 17

Access control.

Answer 17

Determines which users can access which data and what they are allowed to do it with.

Question 18

Hacking.

Answer 18

The act of gaining unauthorised access to a computer system and the data it contains.

Question 19

Physical security.

Answer 19

Controlling access to a critical part of it by physical means.

Question 20

USB.

Answer 20

Universal serial bus.

Question 21

Cyberattack.

Answer 21

Any kind of malicious attack on a network connected device.

Question 22

Social engineering.

Answer 22

Any kind of attack on a computer system or network that exploits how people behave and respond to certain situations.

Question 23

Phishing.

Answer 23

Attempting to gain confidential information by a message that appears to be from a trustworthy source.

Question 24

Shoulder surfing.

Answer 24

Looking over there shoulder.

Question 25

Unpatched software.

Answer 25

Software without the latest updates making it vulnerable.

Question 26

Code vulnerability.

Answer 26

A computer program that has created a security issue that may be taken advantage of to gain access to a computer system or data within it.

Question 27

Modular testing.

Answer 27

Testing each block of code as it is completed to ensure the code works as expected.

Question 28

Audit trail.

Answer 28

A record of activities that have taken place on a computer system, this record is randomly generated and says who did what.

Question 29

internet service provider (ISP).

Answer 29

An organisation that provides its customers with a connection to the internet.

Question 30

Router.

Answer 30

A piece of networking hardware used to forward packets of data from one network to another.

Question 31

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).

Answer 31

Details of how the text should be formatted, hyperlinks, details of any objects such as pictures or videos.