Networking Flashcards
The original name for the Internet when it was developed by the US Department of Defense.
ARPANET
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.
Bandwidth
A network topology in which nodes are connected in a daisy chain.
Bus Topology
The protocol uses to transfer files across networks.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
A network ______ is a computer or other device connected to a computer network.
Host
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
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
An application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. The foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
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.
Hub
A global system of interconnected computer network that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices.
Internet
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.
IP address
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.
Local Area Network (LAN)
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.
MAC Address
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.
Network
This is an email protocol for storing emails.
Post Office Protocol (POP)
A network topology where all devices are connected in a circular fashion.
Ring Topology
One of the most used routing protocols used in network routing configurations.
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
A networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks routing the process of forwarding data packets between computer networks.
Router
An email protocol that enables the transfer of email messages across the network.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTO)
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.
Star Topology
The arrangement of various elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a computer network.
Topology
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.
Uniform Resource Locater (URL)
A computer network in which the computer connected may be far apart, separated by distances spanning half a mile to thousands of miles.
Wide Area Network (WAN)
A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML.
World Wide Wed (WWW)
