Higher Computing

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Decks in this class (17)

Computer Systems: Chapter 1 (Data Representation)
What is floating point notation,
What is a mantissa what happens w...,
What is an exponent what happens ...
18  cards
Computer Systems: Chapter 2 (Computer Structure)
What are the 3 main parts of the cpu,
What is the alu,
What is the control unit
38  cards
Computer Systems: Chapter 3 (Peripherals)
What is an interface,
What are the functions of an inte...,
What is buffering
24  cards
Computer Systems: Chapter 4 (Networking)
What is a network,
What is a local area network lan,
What is a wide area network wan
34  cards
Computer Systems: Chapter 5 (Computer Software)
What is the bootstrap loader,
What are the 6 main functions of ...,
What is the computer language int...
48  cards
Networking: Chapter 1 (Common Network Protocols)
What is file transfer protocol ftp,
What is hypertext transfer protoc...,
What is simple mail transfer prot...
6  cards
Networking: Chapter 2 (The OSI Network Model)
What is the open systems intercon...,
What is the correct order of the ...,
What is the application layer
9  cards
Networking: Chapter 3 (IP Addresses and the Domain Name Service)
What is an ip address,
How are ip addresses constructed,
What numbers are reserved for spe...
12  cards
Networking: Chapter 4 (The World Wide Web)
What are attributes in terms of h...,
What is xhtml,
What is a microbrowser
10  cards
Networking: Chapter 5 (The Implications of the WWW)
What is e commerce,
What are the advantages of e comm...,
What are the advantages of e comm...
21  cards
Networking: Chapter 6 (Network Security)
What is the purpose of network se...,
What are the main security measur...,
What are some user access rights 2
8  cards
Networking: Chapter 7 (Denial of Service Attacks and Disaster Recovery)
What are passive attacks,
What are active attacks,
What are the 2 types of denial of...
20  cards
Networking: Chapter 8 (Data Transmission)
What is asynchronous data transmi...,
What is synchronous data transmis...,
What are 2 types of error checkin...
33  cards
Networking: Chapter 9 (Wireless Data Applications)
What is a wireless personal area ...,
What is a wireless local area net...,
What is a wireless wide area netw...
3  cards
Software Development: Software Development Process
Explain why the software developm...,
What is the software specificatio...,
What are 2 purposes of the softwa...
45  cards
Software Development: Languages and Environments
Name 4 types of programming langu...,
What is a procedural language 2 g...,
What is a declarative language 2 ...
15  cards
Software Development: High Level Programming Language Constructs
What is a variable,
What is an integer variable,
What is a real variable
32  cards

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