Unit 9-12

Question 1

a small graphical element used to highlight or itemize a list

Answer 1

bullet

Question 2

attempting to acquire information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication

Answer 2

phishing

Question 3

a specific geographic location in which an access point provides public wireless broadband network services to mobile visitors through a WLAN

Answer 3

hotspot

Question 4

a horizontal bar located at the bottom of the screen which contains shortcuts to applications and different settings

Answer 4

taskbar/dock

Question 5

a program that automatically fetches web pages which is used to feed pages to search engines

Answer 5

spider/(web)crawler

Question 6

a connection point of the elements of a star network topology / a central connection point in the star network topology, which does not distinguish to which port data packets should be sent

Answer 6

hub

Question 7

one of the main high-speed transition paths within a WAN

Answer 7

backbone

Question 8

keeps visitors from leaving a website by locking them into a window, opening multiple windows on the desktop, or re-launching their website in a window that cannot be closed

Answer 8

mousetrapping

Question 9

the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time or range within a band of frequencies or wavelength

Answer 9

bandwidth

Question 10

a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network

Answer 10

network interface card/controller (NIC)

Question 11

a point in a network or diagram at which lines or pathways intersect or branch / a connection point; a device linked in a network

Answer 11

node

Question 12

a horizontal bar at the top of the window that displays the name of the program and active document

Answer 12

title bar

Question 13

a device that filters and forwards packets between LAN segments, but often not capable of much more

Answer 13

switch

Question 14

a technique used to redirect a legitimate website’s traffic to another illegitimate website in order to gain access to a user’s banking information such as passwords of Internet bank accounts or credit card details / the fraudulent practice of directing Internet users to a bogus website that mimics the appearance of a legitimate one, in order to obtain personal information such as passwords, account numbers, etc.

Answer 14

pharming

Question 15

a computer program that searches the Internet for information, especially by looking for documents containing a particular word or group of words

Answer 15

search engine

Question 16

a computer networking device that connects multiple switches, and their respective networks, to form a larger network / a device that forwards data packets along two or more networks

Answer 16

router

Question 17

an icon on the desktop that allows you to go immediately to a program, a website or a data file

Answer 17

shortcut

Question 18

to reverse the action of an earlier action

Answer 18

redo

Question 19

to move an object or text from the clipboard to a specific location

Answer 19

paste

Question 20

to place an object (characters, words, pictures, etc.) between two other objects

Answer 20

insert

Question 21

to eliminate an object or text

Answer 21

delete

Question 22

to select an object or text and store it in a temporary location often known as the clipboard, which is usually invisible to
the user

Answer 22

cut

Question 23

to highlight text or pick an object

Answer 23

select

Question 24

to use a mouse or other device to position the cursor over a particular area of a computer screen in order to cause a program to respond without clicking a button on the device

Answer 24

hover

Question 25

to adjust a line of type or piece of text so that the print fills a space evenly or forms a straight edge at both margins

Answer 25

justify

Question 26

to send an email on to a further destination / to send an email that you have received to someone else

Answer 26

forward

Question 27

to scan through a website to gain an impression of the contents

Answer 27

browse

Question 28

to add a related document to an email

Answer 28

attach

Question 29

to make a computer virus spread to another computer or program

Answer 29

infect

Question 30

to combine the various versions of a file or folder

Answer 30

merge

Question 31

to make data unreadable by other humans or computers for the purpose of preventing others from gaining access to its contents

Answer 31

encrypt

Question 32

to send a signal, data, or other information to an alternate location / to change the direction of something, especially to send it to a different place

Answer 32

redirect

Question 33

to make exact copies of themselves (of computer viruses)

Answer 33

replicate

Question 34

a type of data transmission in which a single medium (coaxial cable or optical fibre) can carry several channels at once

Answer 34

broadband

Question 35

a device that modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information

Answer 35

modem

Question 36

the main transmission path within a WAN

Answer 36

backbone

Question 37

a family of computer networking technologies commonly used in LANs and MANs / a LAN architecture that uses a bus or star topology and supports data transfer rates of 10 Mbps

Answer 37

ethernet

Question 38

is a general term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software

Answer 38

malware

Question 39

is installed through a stolen password or by exploiting system vulnerabilities in order to gain constant administrator-level access to a computer or network

Answer 39

rootkit

Question 40

replicates itself across a network and usually performs malicious actions; it does not need to attach itself to an existing program

Answer 40

worm

Question 41

a vulnerability used by an attacker to collect an infected user's clicks / tricks users into clicking on a malicious link by adding the link to a transparent layer over what appears to be a legitimate web page

Answer 41

clickjacking

Question 42

adds itself to an executable file and can cause considerable damage to the data on the infected computer

Answer 42

virus

Question 43

collects and sends private information from the infected computer to the third party

Answer 43

spyware

Question 44

presents unwanted advertisements embedded in the application

Answer 44

adware

Question 45

stars connected to a bus

Answer 45

tree

Question 46

the practice of sharing computer data or space on a network

Answer 46

file swapping

Question 47

a copy of an e-mail message sent to a recipient without the recipient's address appearing in the message

Answer 47

blank carbon copy (BCC)

Question 48

an e-mail utility that automatically replies to an e-mail message with a prewritten response when that e-mail comes into a specific e-mail or Internet address

Answer 48

autoresponder

Question 49

the authoring language used to create documents on the Web

Answer 49

HTML

Question 50

the term used to describe any link in any part of a software system that is intended to cause security breaches or damage to a system

Answer 50

malicious link

Question 51

a message posted to a public Internet discussion group with the intent of provoking an angry response or argument over a topic

Answer 51

flame bait

Question 52

a central connection point in the star network topology, which distinguishes to which port data packets should be sent

Answer 52

switch

Question 53

a distinct subset of the Internet with addresses sharing a common suffix or under the control of a particular organization or individual

Answer 53

domain

Question 54

a record of the address of a website or other data made to enable quick access

Answer 54

bookmarks

Question 55

to use someone/something for your own advantage

Answer 55

exploit

Question 56

the average speed required to transmit data from the disk to the CPU, measured in megabytes per second

Answer 56

transfer rate

Question 57

programs designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a compute

Answer 57

utilities

Question 58

to identify the source of a problem and correct faults in a computer system, typically through a process of elimination, beginning with the most obvious or easiest problem to fix

Answer 58

troubleshoot