Glossary Network

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ARPANET

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The earliest version of the internet that we see today , created by the US government project DARPA in the 1960’s

Question 2

Children’s Online Privacy Act (COPPA)

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Regulates the information we show to children under the age of 13

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Clients

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A device that receives data from a server

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DARPA

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A US government project in the 1960s that went on to create the earliest version of the Internet that we see today

Question 5

Domain Name

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A website name; the part of the URL following www.

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Domain Name System (DNS)

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A global and highly distributed network service that resolves
strings of letters, such as a website name, into an IP address

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Ethernet cable

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It lets you physically connect to the network through a cable

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Fiber optic cable:

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Fiber optic cables contain individual optical fibers which are tiny tubes made of glass about the width of a human hair. Unlike copper, which uses electrical voltages, fiber cables use pulses of light to represent the ones and zeros of the underlying data

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Globalization

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The movement that lets governments, businesses, and organizations communicate and integrate together on an international scale

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Hubs

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Devices that serve as a central location through which data travels through

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HTML

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Hypertext Markup Language

Websites are text documents that we format with HTML

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Internet

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A worldwide system of interconnected networks

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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN)

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Where website names are registered

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Internet of Things (IoT)

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The concept that more and more devices are connected to the internet in a smarter fashion such as smart thermostats that turn off the air conditioner when you leave and turn it on when you come back

Question 15

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)

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An address that consists of 32 bits separated into four
groups
- 4 bytes in an IPv4 address.
- There are 256 available values in a byte with decimal values ranging from 0 to 255.

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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

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An address that consist of a 128 bits, four times the amount that IPv4 uses

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Internet service provider (ISP):

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A company that provides a consumer an internet connection

Question 18

IP address

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The most common protocol used in the network layer, used to helps us route information

Question 19

MAC address:

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A globally unique identifier attached to an individual network interface. It’s a 48-bit number normally represented by six groupings of two hexadecimal numbers

Question 20

Network

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The interconnection of computers

Just need 2 computers

Question 21

Network Address Translation (NAT)

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A mitigation tool that lets organizations use one public IP
address and many private IP addresses within the network

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Networking

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Managing, building and designing networks

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Networking protocols

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A set of rules for how we transfer data in a network

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Network stack

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A set of hardware or software that provides the infrastructure for a computer

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Router

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A device that knows how to forward data between independent networks

A router connects devices together and helps direct network traffic.

A router utilizes network protocols to help determine where to send data packets.

Question 26

Server logs

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Text files that contains recorded information about activities performed on specific web server in a defined period of time

Question 27

Server

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Devices that provide data to other devices that request that data, also known as a client

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Switches

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Devices that help our data travel

Question 29

Transfer Control Protocol (TCP)

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A protocol that handles reliable delivery of information from
one network to another

The TCP/IP protocol allowed computers to share information outside their network, which contributed to the Internet as we know it today.

Question 30

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

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A web address similar to a home address

Question 31

Wanna-Cry Attack

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A cyber attack that started in Europe and infected hundreds of thousands of computers across the world

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Wireless networking (Wi-Fi)

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Networks you connect to through radios and antennas

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World Wide Web (WWW)

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The information system that enables documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet