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Vocabulary List Flashcards

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WWW

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World Wide Web/ the internet (A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML.)

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Internet

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a network that accommodates several computers to facilitate exchange and transfer of data

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ISP

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Internet Service Provider-An ISP that piggybacks its services off of a third-party provider in order to offer ISP services without the expenses and duties required in providing those services.

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Cat.6a

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Category 6A is defined at frequencies up to 500 MHz—twice that of Cat 6.

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Wifi

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Wi-Fi is the name of a popular wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed Internet and network connection.

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NIC

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(Square drawn connecting Mac/PS to cable) Short for network interface card (NIC) bonding it is a term used to describe a way to increase available bandwidth.

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Router

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a device that forwards data packets along networks.

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Modem

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A modem is a device or program that enables a computer to transmit data over, for example, telephone or cable lines.

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AP

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AP- Short for Access Point, a hardware device or a computer’s software that acts as a communication hub for users of a wireless device to connect to a wired LAN.

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PC

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Short for personal computer or IBM PC. The first personal computer produced by IBM was called the PC, and increasingly the term PC came to mean IBM or IBM-compatible personal computers, to the exclusion of other types of personal computers, such as Macs

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MAC

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Short for Media Access Control
Also “The Macintosh (branded as Mac since 1998) is a series of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.”

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HUB

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A common connection point for devices in a network. Hubs serve as a central connection for all network equipment and handles a data type known as frames.

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Switch

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In networks, a device that filters and forwards packets between LAN segments.

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Internet Filtering

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A program that accepts a certain type of data as input, transforms it in some manner, and then outputs the transformed data.

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Firewall

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Firewall systems prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both.

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WAP

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WAP- WAP gateway is a software system that helps WAP-enabled wireless devices to communicate to Internet Web sites and applications.

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LAN

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LAN- LAN stands for local area network.

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WAN

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WAN- A phrase used to describe applications and products used to manage and accelerate the flow of data across a wide-area network (WAN)

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MAN

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MAN- A data network designed for a town or city. Geographically, MANs are larger than local-area networks (LANs), but smaller than wide-area networks (WANs).

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WLAN

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WLAN- A type of local-area network that uses high-frequency radio waves rather than wires to communicate between nodes.

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OS

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OS- The official name of the Macintosh operating system. Earlier versions were called System x.x, where x.x were the version numbers.

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Server

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Server- A computer or device on a network that manages network resources.

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Network Engineer

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Network Engineer- A network engineer, also known as network architect, designs and implements computer networks.

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Network Administrator

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Network Administrator- The IT network administrator focuses on maintaining an organization’s data management network. The IT network extends to the corporate LAN, WAN, intranet, and Internet. The LAN network administrator is responsible for maintaining an organization’s local area network.

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System Analyst

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Systems Analyst- A programmer or consultant who designs and manages the development of business applications. Typically, systems analysts are more involved in design issues than in day-to-day coding.

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Cellular

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Cellular- Refers to communications systems, especially the Advance Mobile Phone Service (AMPS), that divide a geographic region into sections, called cells.

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DOS

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DOS- Any operating system, but it is most often used as a shorthand for MS-DOS (Microsoft disk operating system).

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Software

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Software- Computer instructions or data. Anything that can be stored electronically is software.

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Hardware

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Hardware- Computer hardware refers to objects that you can actually touch, like disks, disk drives, display screens, keyboards, printers, boards, and chips.

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Machine Language

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Machine Language- The lowest-level programming language, except for computers that utilize programmable microcode. Machine languages are the only languages understood by computers.

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Assembly Language

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Assembly Language- A programming language that is once removed from a computer’s machine language. Machine languages consist entirely of numbers.

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Interpreter

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Interpreter- A program that executes instructions written in a high-level language.

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High Level Language

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High Level Language- A programming language such as C, FORTRAN, or Pascal that enables a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer.

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Low Level Language

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Low Level Language- Low-level languages are closer to the hardware than are high-level programming languages, which are closer to human languages.

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Command Processor

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Command Processor- The part of the operating system that receives and executes operating system commands. Every operating system has a command processor.

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Command Language

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Command Language- The programming language through which a user communicates with the operating system or an application. For example, the DOS command language includes the commands DIR, COPY, and DEL, to name a few.

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IDE

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IDE- integrated development environment abbreviated as IDE, a programming environment integrated into a software application that provides a GUI builder, a text or code editor, a compiler and/or interpreter and a debugger.

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JIT

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JIT- Short for just-in-time compiler, a code generator that converts Java bytecode into machine language instructions.

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OOP

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Object-oriented programming (OOP) refers to a special type of programming that combines data structures with functions to create re-usable objects.

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OOPL

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OOPL- Object Oriented Language-A type of programming in which programmers define not only the data type of a data structure, but also the types of operations that can be applied.

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JAVA

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JAVA- A high-level programming language that is a commonly used foundation for developing and delivering content on the Web.

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Assembler

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Assembler- A program that translates programs from assembly language tomachine language

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C++

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C++: A high-level programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs. C++ adds object-oriented features to its predecessor, C.

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High Performance Computing

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High Performance Computing- A branch of computer science that concentrates on developing supercomputers and software to run on supercomputers. A main area of this discipline is developing parallel processing algorithms and software: programs that can be divided into little pieces so that each piece can be executed simultaneously by separate processors.

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Program

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Program- An organized list of instructions that, when executed, causes the computer to behave in a predetermined manner. Without programs, computers are useless.

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Language

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Language- A system for communicating. Written languages use symbols (that is, characters) to build words.

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BIOS

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BIOS- The BIOS is built-in software that determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk.

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CPU

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CPU- CPU is the abbreviation for central processing unit (the processor). The CPU is the brains of the computer where most calculations take place.

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RAM

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RAM- RAM is an acronym for random memory access , a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly; that is, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes.

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ROM

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ROM- Acronym for read-only memory. ROM is computer memory on which data has been prerecorded. It retains its contents even when the computer is turned off.

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