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Module 3 Flashcards

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What is a Domain?

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High-level categories of websites on the WWW. “.com” is a suffix for sites with the commercial domain.

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What is the domain “.net”?

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Short for network, used to be used by websites that acted as the central point in a network, meaning that the owners of that site were the bosses of a network. Today it anyone can choose to call their website “.net”.

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What are the three types of Address?

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  1. Address location of computers and devices of a network.
  2. Address of webservers on the internet.
  3. Address (identifiers) of memory on the computer.
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How a computer in a network finds another computer?

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Each computer or device on a network have a unique “address” that is known by the other computers and devices in the network. A special program allows a computer to send a signal to another computer using its address and allows it to send information back and forth.

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How a computer can find a website through the internet?

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By using a special program called web browser. Websites are stored in webservers that have an address. When you are trying to access a websites, all you are doing is requesting a webpage to the webserver.

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What is a resource on the internet?

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Anything that can be accessed over the internet is called a resource. This can be a website, a security camera, a printer etc.

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What are the meanings of traffic in the technology world?

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  1. Anything that is communicated or sent through a computer or from a computer to computer.
  2. A measure of how many requests a web server is getting for a particular web page or website in a given length of time.
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What is Bandwidth?

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Is the capacity for traffic flow on the path that information travels both to and from a computer. Like a pipe, the broader the piper more water (traffic) can go through at the same time.

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What is Broadband?

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Is a type of access to the internet. A technology that instead of using the telephone line uses the cable televevision line to send information, giving it a much bigger bandwidth.

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What is code?

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  1. Is what you type into a computer to make programs. It is written in specialized computer languages.
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What is encode?

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Encode means to turn something into a code. It can be converted back and forth and can make it difficult to figure out the original message.

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What is a link?

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  1. Is any kind of communication path between two computers.
  2. A connection between two or more computers.
  3. Also that you click on that take you somewhere else.
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What is a hypertext?

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Is a system for linking related electronic documents.

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What “hyper” means in hypertext?

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It means beyond, because the hypertext take you beyond the current electronic document.

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What are Protocols?

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Protocols are the rules and regulations computers have to follow to be able to transfer various types of data between each other. This assures, for example, how the information will be sent and how to interpret it.

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Anything that shortens the time it takes to perform an action on a computer is a…

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… shortcut.

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What markup used to be?

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When books used to be written by hand, markup were, intructions on the paper about how to print it.

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What is a markup language?

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A specialized computer language used to markup electronic documents for display or print purpose.

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What are tags?

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Special words used by markup languages to modify a text.

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How tags works?

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You surround the text with the tag specific tag you want to use to modify the text.

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Tags usually have two parts. What are they?

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The start tag, ex: <bold>, and the end tag, ex: </bold>.

22
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Are tags instructions?

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No, they are only code that other programs use to aply its own instruction.

23
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What HTML stands for?

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Hyper Text Markup Language.

24
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What is HTML?

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A computer language that describes the appearance, content and behaviour of webpages.

25
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Describe the process of requesting a webpage.

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  1. The browser first request the .html file from the web server.
  2. The web server sends the requested .html file to the browser.
  3. The browser then processes the HTML tags and the text in the file to work out the visual appearance of the page.
26
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What HTTP stands for?

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Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

27
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What is HTTP?

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A protocol for transferring web pages information to and from computers over the internet.

28
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What the role of the colon “:” on the address bar?

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The colon separates the protocol the browser used in the requesting (to the left of the colon) from the particular information (to the right of the colon).

29
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What is the value in?

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The value is a piece of information soted in a computer.

30
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What the forward slash “/” is used for?

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To show the hierarchical relationship of two items. The item on the left is above the one on the right.

31
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What the two slashes “//” are used for?

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The same as the single slash. It is still used before “www.” as habit.

32
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What is a mainframe?

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A large central computer that can maintain and process a lot of information and is very secure.

33
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What is a server?

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A computer that is used as the source of data and/or services by one or more other computers in a network.

34
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What is a network server?

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The main computer that stores the information.

35
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What is a internet server?

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The same as webserver, is a server that servers others computer through the internet.

36
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What are add-ons?

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It’s an additional thing that is included or added to something so taht it can do more work for you. It can be a hardware or a software.

37
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What Css stands for?

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Cascading Style Sheet.

38
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What is Css used for?

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To control the appearance of the text, images and other contents on a webpage.

39
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Why cascading in the Css term?

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Because the settings drop down the whole hierarquia.

40
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What is metadata?

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A data that provide data about some data.

41
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What is an extension of a file?

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Is a metadata about an electronic file. It tells what type of information is contained in the file.

42
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What URL stands for?

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Uniform Resource Locator.

43
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What is unirform means in URL?

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The same every time.

44
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What is the URL?

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Is the address of the website.

45
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What is a program?

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Is a small computer program that you can add to a larger computer program that adds new functions to the larger program.

46
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What is the domain .biz?

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Use for business. An alternative for .com

47
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What is the domain .org?

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Means organizations. Used for non-profit organizations, but it has beocme a general-purpose domain.

48
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What DNS stands for?

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Domain Name System.

49
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What DNS does?

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The name of computer on the internet are represented in the DNS form. DNS changes the website human name to it’s DNS name on the background.

50
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What is Host (hosting).

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  1. A company that manage webservers.
  2. A computer that provides a home for various resources that other computer on the network might need.
51
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What is an index?

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Is information about a collection of data. Ex: indice of the manual of a car.

52
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What is a search engine?

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A special program that can access and index containing data about many of the web pages from websites around the world.

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