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CIW Foundations
Terms and fact critical to the CIW Foundations certification exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| network of interconnected computers having now centralized control | Internet |
| US Commerical TLD | com |
| US Educational TLD | edu |
| US Government TLD | gov |
| TLD | top level domain |
| International country TLD | co |
| US Military TLD | mil |
| organizational network TLD | net |
| Non-profit organization TLD | org |
| Country code for UK | co |
| Files stored from a visited website that the browser doesn't have to reload if not changed | browser cache |
| early Internet text-based browser tool | Gopher |
| FTP | file transfer protocol |
| file transfer protocol | used for transferring files between across the Internet |
| Fastest dial-up speed | 56 KPS |
| dial-up networking device | Modem |
| DSL | digital subscriber line |
| DSL max speed | 10Mbps |
| ISDN max speed | 64Kbps |
| Cable connection max speed | 52Mbps |
| Connects LANS to Internet | T1 |
| T1 Best speed | 1.544 Mbps |
| European equivalent of T1 | E1 |
| E1 best speed | 2.048 Mbps |
| Connects corporate LANS to the Internet | T3 |
| T3 best speed | 44.736Mbps |
| Europeon equivalent of T3 | E3 |
| E3 best speed | 34.368Mbps |
| E-commerce transactions between businesses | B2B |
| B2B | Business to business |
| E-commerce transactions between businesses and consumers | B2C |
| B2C | business to consumers |
| E-commerce transactions between consumers | C2C |
| C2C | consumers to consumers |
| SSL | Secure Socket Layers |
| Common security protocol used to encrypt e-commerce transactions | SSL |
| text files saved by servers to client computers in response to a request from a client browser | cookies |
| graphic format that has no compression and holds 256 colors and can be animated | GIF |
| GIF | Graphics Interlaced Format |
| graphic format that has 16million colors that can be compressed and lose quality | JPEG |
| JPEG | Joint Photographers Exchange Graphic |
| A replacement for GIF that supports 16 million colors but no animation | PNG |
| PNG | Portable network graphic |
| RGB | Red Green Blue |
| a graphics error where the graphic is rendered outside its range of colors, and a suitable color is approximated | dithering |
| graphics error where the graphic is rendered in a larger quality size than what is was saved for, resulting in blurring of image | pixelated |
| object oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems used to develop a website | Java |
| object-based scripting language adapted from Sun's LiveScript that is interpreted by the web browser | JavaScript |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheet |
| HTML | Hypertext markup language |
| XHTML | Extensible Hypertext Markup Language that meets both HTML and XML standards |
| XML | Extensible markup language |
| IMAP | Internet Messaging Access Protocols |
| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol |
| Used by RSS and Newsfeed servers | NNTP |
| Used by Internet-Email servers to provide access to e-mail only via Internet | IMAP |
| PPP | Point to Point protocol |
| Protocol used in dial-up connections to connect to the Internet | PPP |
| POP | Post office protocol |
| Used by client PCs to retrieve e-mail from an e-mail server and store on client's computer | POP |
| SMTP | Simple mail transfer protocl |
| used by e-mail servers to send the e-mail messages | SMTP |
| Port for HTTP | 80 |
| Port for ftp | 20/21 |
| Port for Telnet | 23 |
| Port for SMTP | 25 |
| Port for SSL | 443 |
| HTTP | Hypertext Markup Language |
| protocol used to remotely connect to a PC | telnet |
| OSI Model | standard for network communications |
| regenerates a weak signal and performs NO error correction | repeater |
| multi-port network repeater device | hub |
| networking device | bridge |
| networking device | brouter |
| networking device | switch |
| networking device | router |
| digital networking device to convert analog and digital signals | CSU/DSU |
| cable backbone with notes | bus |
| notes connected by cables that pass through a central controlling device such as a hub | star |
| nodes connected through a MAU that pass a token around for permission to transmit | ring |
| MAU | multistation access unit used in MAC networks |
| multiple nodes connected to each other with the ability of data to travel many different paths | mesh |
| IIS | Internet Information Server |
| Microsoft's web server | IIS |
| Open Source & Unix-based webserver | Apache |
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