AP CS

Question 1

Innovation

Answer 1

A novel or improved idea, device, product, etc, or the development thereof

Question 2

Binary

Answer 2

A way of representing information using only two options

Question 3

Bit

Answer 3

A contraction of “Binary Digit”. A bit is the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1.

Question 4

Bandwidth

Answer 4

Transmission capacity measure by bit rate

Question 5

Bit rate

Answer 5

(sometimes written bitrate) the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. e.g. 8 bits/sec.

Question 6

Latency

Answer 6

Time it takes for a bit to travel from its sender to its receiver.

Question 7

Protocol

Answer 7

A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices.

Question 8

ASCII

Answer 8

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is the universally recognized raw text format that any computer can understand.

Question 9

Code

Answer 9

(v) to write code, or to write instructions for a computer.

Question 10

IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

Answer 10

develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).

Question 11

Internet

Answer 11

A group of computers and servers that are connected to each other.

Question 12

Packets

Answer 12

Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information.

Question 13

TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

Answer 13

provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually seen as TCP/IP in writing.

Question 14

DNS

Answer 14

The service that translates URLs to IP addresses

Question 15

HTTP

Answer 15

HyperText Transfer Protocol - the protocol used for transmitting web pages over the Internet

Question 16

URL

Answer 16

• An easy-to-remember address for calling a web page (like www.code.org)