Networking Flashcards

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The original name for the Internet when it was developed by the US Department of Defense.

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ARPANET

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The rate of data transfer, a bit rate or throughput, measured in bits per second (bit/s), most often expressed in megabits per second. A typical WAN connection from a home or business can range anywhere from 5 Mbps to 25 Mbps. Within a LAN, speeds can exceed 1000 Mbps, or 1 Gbps.

Maximum capacity of the medium (wire, fiber, air) along which a signal can travel.

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Bandwidth

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A network topology in which nodes are connected in a daisy chain.

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Bus Topology

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The protocol uses to transfer files across networks.

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

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A network ______ is a computer or other device connected to a computer network.

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Host

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The standard markup language used to create web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like

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Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)

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An application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. The foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

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A networking device that is the center of a star topology, where it is the center of the start and all devices connect to it, receiving network traffic from it.

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Hub

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A global system of interconnected computer network that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices.

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Internet

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A unique string of numbers, usually expressed in dotted decimal notation (such as 192.168.1.1), that identifies each computer using the Internet Protocol to communication over a network.

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IP address

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A section of network, local to a room, house, building, small campus, or even a metropolitan area (MAN), connected by some LAN protocol, most commonly Ethernet, either view wired connections, fiber, or wireless.

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Local Area Network (LAN)

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A media access control address is a unique identifier assigned to network devices for communication on the physical network segment, similar to a social security number that belongs to a person.

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MAC Address

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A group of two or more computer systems linke together. There are many types including LANs, MANs, and WANs. The ultimate one is the Internet.

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Network

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This is an email protocol for storing emails.

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Post Office Protocol (POP)

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A network topology where all devices are connected in a circular fashion.

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Ring Topology

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One of the most used routing protocols used in network routing configurations.

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Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

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A networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks routing the process of forwarding data packets between computer networks.

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Router

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An email protocol that enables the transfer of email messages across the network.

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTO)

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This is a common topology in networking where a central device, such as a switch or a hub, to which all of the network devices are connected.

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Star Topology

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The arrangement of various elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a computer network.

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Topology

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Reference (an address) to a resource on the INternet. There are two main components: For http://example.com Protocol identifier, which is http, and the resource name, which is example.com.

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Uniform Resource Locater (URL)

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A computer network in which the computer connected may be far apart, separated by distances spanning half a mile to thousands of miles.

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Wide Area Network (WAN)

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A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML.

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World Wide Wed (WWW)