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What is the primary difference between WAN and LAN? |
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LAN: Computers are physically close WAN: Extends over long distance |
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| System of satellites used to determine any position on the earth |
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| GPS (global positioning system) |
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What converts a message from digital to analog or vice versa? |
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| What term refers to the amount of information transmitted through a communication medium in a given amount of time? |
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what are the rules for how data is exchanged between network nodes known as? |
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| What Network configuration allows every computer on the network to act as both a client/server? |
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| What type of license allws a business to legally copy software to all of the computers they own? |
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What is synchronous communication? |
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| Graphical "bodies" that represent the user (chat rooms) |
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What is a secure electronic "tunnel" through the internet that prevents unauthorized access? |
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| VPN (virtual private network) |
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| What group or entity supplied nearly all of the cost of initially building and operating the internet? |
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| What does TCP/IP stand for? What does it do? |
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TCP/IP: Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol This allows cross network communication |
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| How is every host computer on the internet identified? |
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| What is the system that translates IP adrresses into simple names? |
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| What media do cable modems use? |
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| What does FTP stand for? what can you do with it? |
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FTP: File transfer protocol
WIth this you can download files from servers onto your computer |
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| What's the protocol used to tranfer web pages? |
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| Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) |
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| What is a an internet diary or grouping of ongoing commentaries known as? |
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| What are downloadable software extensions that add new features to a browser known as? |
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| What is a software robot that systematically searches the web known as? |
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| What are yahoo!, MSN, and Netscape examples of? |
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| For patients living in remote places, doctors use the web to practice what? |
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| Automated factories pose the greatest threat to the employment of what type of worker? |
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| What do some companies replace PCs with that are low cost, low-maintenance machines that can access network information? |
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| Several employees sharing their calenders and working together on a training manual is a good use of what? |
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| What can a business do to expand its intranet structure to its external partners and customers? |
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| Buying and selling products through a computer network is known as what? |
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| Electronic commerce (E-commerce) |
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| What is educational software often known as? |
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| Computer aided instruction (CAI) |
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| What can authoring tools help create? |
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What does a magnetic strip card contain?
Smart Card? |
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Personal identification information
Microprocessor, and ability to keep past transactions |
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