IS 101 EXAM
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- GUI
- Graphical User Interface: allows you to use a mouse or keystrokes to slect icons and commands
- DOS
- Disk operating system: first operating sys. offered to IBM by microsoft (hard to use command interface)
- URL
- Uniforms Resource Locator: string of characters that points to specific piece of info anywhere on the web.
- TCP
- Transmission Control Protocol: two hosts to establish a connection and exchange data
- IP
- Internet Protocol: deals with packets of information when transfering
- DSL
- digital subscriber line: high data rate faster connection than dial up, faster out than in, mbps
- DNS
- Domain Name Service: computer at ISP that finds IP#'s translatesname to IP address for web page requested
- POP3
- protocal were email downloads to your computer
- ICANN
- nonprofit Organization that controls DNS (IP address #'s)
- IMAP
- protocal you view your email from your ISP
- ARIN
- registers and administers IP numbers
- INTERNIC
- provides public info about domain name registration
- FTP
- protocal used to transfer files publicly available
- HTML
- set of special intructions (tags/markups) to specify document structure, format
- HTTP
- communications rule allow browers to connect to website
- IT
- technology that helps produce main information
- DHCP
- software that keeps track of IP address connects you to a different IP each time
- WWW
- Interconnected sys. of internet servers that support multimedia form
- OS
- software platform, low-level, master sys. of programs manage basic ops. disk space, memory, CPU, peripheral devices
- ISDN
- HARDWARE/SOFTWARE THAT ALLOW VOICE,VIDEO, AND DATA TO BE COMM. OVER TRADITIONAL COPPER-WIRE TELEPHONE LINES
- ISP
- Co. that connects u to the comm. line (server), to internet via co. networks
- RAM
- (memory chips) primary storage (temp storage) hold data b and a processing
- LAN
- group of desktop PCs and other devices in an office or building
- UNIX
- multitasking OS for multipurpose users that run on all kinds of computers
- LINUX
- nonprofit version of UNIX, free, complicated but easy to mess with
- PTM
- software that helps you keep track and manage info u use daily
- DTP
- involves mixing txt & graphics to produce high quality output for comercial printing
- CAD
- intended for design of products, structures, maps, etc.
- CPU
- processor chip, tiny piece of silicon that contains m,illions of minature electronic circuits
- CYBERSQUATTING
- by domain name with intent to sell it
- Plug IN
- things downloaded to make things work and run smoothly on webpages
- COOKIES
- filters on websites for it to remember your information
- VERSION VS. RELEASE
- whole new upgrade/ small tiny upgrades
- User Interface
- way that you interact with the computer
- Software suit vs. Integrated software
- bundle together programs / pieces and parts of software