Vocabulary Words

1.) Network: A computer system that links two or more computers.

S/E Issues: Reliability and Control

AOI: Business and Education

2.) Ethernet: A popular networking architecture developed in 1976 at Xerox.

S/E Issues: Policies & Standards: Certain requirement on this networking device and Reliability: since its been around for 30 years.

AOI: Business and Education

3.) Wi-Fi: A popular wireless LAN technology that allows multiple computers to connect to a LAN through a base station up to 150 feet away. Often referred to as 802.11b.

S/E Issues: Reliability and Control

AOI: Entertainment

4.) LAN (local area network): Multiple personal computers connected on a network.

S/E Issues: Equality of access: each user get the same local network and Control

AOI: Business and Education

5.) Node: Each computer and shared peripheral on a local-area network.

S/E Issues: Reliability and Control

AOI: Business and Education

6.) fiber-optic cable: High-capacity cable that uses light waves to carry information at blinding speeds.

S/E: Reliability

Control

AOI: Business and Education


7/8.) Client/Server: Client programs in desktop computers send information requests through a network to server databases on mainframes, minicomputers, or desktop computers; the servers process queries and send the requested data back to the client.

S/E: People and Machines

Policies and Standards

AOI: Business and Education


9.) Spam: Internet junk mail

S/E: Control: you control what is junk

AOI: Business and Education


10.) Password: The most common security tools used to restrict access to computer systems.

S/E: Privacy: You only have access to your password

Security

11.) VPN (virtual private network): A network that uses encryption software to create secure “tunnels” through the public Internet or between intranets; a method an organization can use to set up an extranet.

S/E: Private and Security

AOI: Business



12.) Sysadmin: A system administrator, s a person employed to maintain and operate a computer system and/or network.

S/E: People & machines

AOI: Business



13.) Nodes: Each computer and shared peripheral on a local-area network.

S/E: Equality of access

AOI: Business and Education



14.) UPS (uninterruptible power supply): A hardware device that protects computers from data loss during power failures.

S/E: Reliability

AOI: Business and Education



15.) EDI: (electronic data interchange): A set of specifications for conducting basic business transactions over private networks.

S/E: Privacy and Security

AOI: Business and Education