IT Terms - Networking Flashcards
LAN
Local Area Network - A computer networks that interconnects computers within a limited area. EX: Residence, school. office building, University
MAN
Metropolitan Area Network - A computer networks that interconnects users with computers resources in a geographic region.
WAN
Wide Area Network - A telecommuncations netowrk that extends over a large geographical area for the primary purpose of computer networking.
PAM
Personal Area Network - A computer netowrk for interconnecting electronic devices centered on an individual persons’ workspace. EX: Between computer, smartphone, tablets etc.
Computer Network
A group of computers, that use a set of common communications protocols, for the purpose of commincating and sharing resources.
Latency
A time delay between the casue and effct. The amount of time it takes for a packet of data to get from one designation point to another.
Subnet
A logical subdivision of an IP network. The practice of dividing a network into 2 or more netoworks.
IP Address
Internet Protocol Address - A numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses Internet Protocol.
DNS
Domian Name System - Naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the internet or a private network. Tranlates readable domain names to IP addresses.
VPC
Vitural Private Cloud - An on-demand configurable pool of shared computing resources allocated within a public cloud emviroment, providing a certain level of isolation between different organizations using the resources.
AWS - VPC lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.
Application Protocol
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol - An application for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, where hypertext documents include hyperlinks to other resources that the user can easily access, for example by a mouse click or by tapping the screen in a web browser.
HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure - Is an extensionof the HTTP that is used for sercure comminucations over a computer network.
HTTP/2
Is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web.
Websocket
Port
API
Application Programming Interface
Root Level
Not sure if this is networking
URL
TSP
Tunnel Setup Protocol
IPv4
The fourth version of the internet protocal (IP). It is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet and other packet-switched networks.
IPv6
IPv6 is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol, the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion. IPv6 is intended to replace IPv4.
Internet Protocol
The pricipal commuincations protocol in the internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams acress network boundries. Its routing function enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet.
IP has the task of delivering packets from the source host to the destination host solely based on the IP addresses in the packet headers. For this purpose, IP defines packet structures that encapsulate the data to be delivered. It also defines addressing methods that are used to label the datagram with source and destination information.
Datagram
Is a basic transfer unit associated witha packet-swithced network. Datagrams are typically structured in the headerand payload sections.
