CIW Foundations - TERMS 2
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- Analog modem
- Enables a computer to communicate with other computers over telephone lines, by translating digital data into analog data signals on the sending computer, then back to digital form on the receiving computer.
- Authentication
- The ability to verify a person's identity.
- Domain Name System
- A system that makes uniquely hierarchal names to specific Internet addresses.
- FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
- The complete domain name of an Internet computer.
- Gopher
- An Application-layer protocol that allows clients to retrieve test menus of information from servers. An older menu-based program in UNIX-based systems that is used to find resources.
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- An application layer protocol used to transfer files between computers, that allows file transfer without corruption or alteration.
- Hexadecimal
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A base-16 system that allows large numbers to be displayed by fewer characters than if the number were displayed in the regular base-10 system.
In hexadecimal, the number 10 is represented as the letter A, 15 is F, and 16 is represented as 10. -
Internet Network Information Center
(InterNIC) -
Cooperative organization that formed an agreement between the US Dept. of Commerce and Network Solutions that
registered domain names for the
.com, .net, and .org top-level domains. - Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
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Provides the same services as POP, but more powerful.
Allows sharing of mailboxes and
multiple mail server access. - Internet protocol (IP)
- Data transmission standard for the internet. Each PC on the internet has it's own IP address.
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NNTP
Network News Transfer Protocol - An Application-layer Internet protocol that allows the exchange of newsgroup articles.
- Point-to-point protocol (PPP)
- Improved version of SLIP that allows a computer to connect over a phone line.
- router
- A network device that determines the best path across a network for data.
- shell
- A command-based interface usually for an operating system
- segment
- Part of a larger structure, commonly used in networking to refer to a portion of a large network.
- Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)
- A dial-up connection protocol that allows a computer to connect to the Internet over a phone line.
- shell account
- The command-line interface of a UNIX server at the ISP. Shell accounts require users to enter commancs to access and navigate the Internet.
- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
- Ensures reliable communication and uses ports to deliver packets.
- top-level domain TLD
- the group into which a domain is categorized, by geography and/or common topic.
- UseNet (user network)
- A public access network consisting of newsgroups and group mailing lists.