Exam 2 Vocabulary

Question 1

IETF

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Internet

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Net Neutrality

Answer 3

The principal that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers

Question 4

IP Address

Answer 4

A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet

Question 5

Packets

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Protocol

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Network Redundancy

Answer 7

Having multiple backups to ensure reliability during cases of high usage or failure

Question 8

Router

Answer 8

A type of computer that forwards data across a network

Question 9

TCP

Answer 9

Transmission Control Protocol, 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 10

DNS

Answer 10

Short for Domain Name System, this system translates domain name (like example.com) to IP addresses (like 93.184.216.34)

Question 11

HTTP

Answer 11

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

Question 12

URL

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Website

Answer 13

A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web

Question 14

Website Content

Answer 14

The raw text, images, and other elements included in a web page

Question 15

Html

Answer 15

Hypertext Markup Language, a language used to create web pages

Question 16

HTML Element

Answer 16

A piece of a website, marked by a start tag and often closed with an end tag

Question 17

HTML Tag

Answer 17

The special set of characters that indicates the start and the end of an HTML element and that element’s type

Question 18

Website Structure

Answer 18

The purpose of different pieces of content in a web page, used to help the computer determine how that content should be displayed

Question 19

Heading

Answer 19

A title or summary for a document or section of a document

Question 20

Digital Footprint

Answer 20

The collected information about an individual across multiple websites on the Internet

Question 21

Citation

Answer 21

A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work

Question 22

Copyright

Answer 22

The exclusive legal right to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same

Question 23

Creative Commons

Answer 23

A collection of public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work, used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created

Question 24

Intellectual Property

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A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as piece of writing or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.

Question 25

Bug

Answer 25

Part of a program that does not work correctly

Question 26

Comment

Answer 26

A note in the source code of a computer program that helps explain the code to people who read it

Question 27

Debugging

Answer 27

Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program

Question 28

Indentation

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The placement of text farther to the right or left of the surrounding text, making it easier to understand the program’s structure

Question 29

Whitespace

Answer 29

Any character that shows up as a blank space on the screen, such as a space, a tab, or a new line, helps separate different parts of the document to make it easier to read

Question 30

Hyperlink

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A link from a HTML file to another location or file, typically activated by clicking on a time highlighted word or image on the screen

Question 31

CSS

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Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe how HTML elements should be styled

Question 32

CSS Selector

Answer 32

The part of a CSS rule-set that defines which HTML elements the style should be applied to

Question 33

Algorithm

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A precise sequence of instructions for processes that can be executed by a computer

Question 34

Relevant

Answer 34

Closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand

Question 35

Search Engine

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A program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web

Question 36

Trustworthy

Answer 36

Able to be relied on as honest or truthful

Question 37

CSS Class

Answer 37

An identifier that allows multiple elements in an HTML document to be styled in the same way

Question 38

Bit Rate

Answer 38

The number of bits per second that can be transmitted along a digital network

Question 39

Latency

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The delay before a transfer of data begins following an instruction for its transfer

Question 40

Bandwidth

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A range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal

Question 41

Character Entity

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A code used to represent a character that doesn’t belong to the document’s character set

Question 42

Tags

Answer 42

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(name 2)

Question 43

LANs

Answer 43

A computer network that links devices within a building or group of adjacent buildings, Local Area Networks

Question 44

WANs

Answer 44

A computer network in which the computers connected may be far apart, generally having a radius of half a mile or more, Wide Area Networks

Question 45

Data Sent Over The Internet

Answer 45

Step 1: Information is divided into packets, labeled with numbers Step 2: Those packets arrive at the destination, the information may not arrive in order or get sent through the same channels Step 3: The information is then assembled with those numbers once all of the packets have reached the destination, if any of the packets fail to make it or get killed, then there can be a request for a new packet to be sent