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Year 7 Networking unit

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Bits   show
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BYTE   show
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show The maximum transmission capacity of a device, measured by bit rate.  
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show The number of bits per second a system can transmit.  
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show A network cable that contains strands of glass fibers and uses light to transmit data.  
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Wireless network   show
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show A local-area network (LAN) that connects devices to the Internet or other network using cables. This network commonly uses cables connected to Ethernet ports on the network router on one end and to a computer or other device on the cable's opposite end.  
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show Also referred to as a cellular network, employs the use of radio frequencies that can be used simultaneously by several callers at one and the same time.  
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Internet Protocol (IP)   show
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Internet service provider (ISP)   show
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show A well-known set of rules and standards used to communicate between machines.  
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Domain Name System (DNS)   show
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show A type of cyberattack, when an attacker hacks into a server and changes the domain name to match with a wrong IP address and sends people to an imposter website.  
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show A piece of computer hardware that acts as traffic managers to keep information packets moving efficiently over the Internet.  
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The Internet   show
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show The application you use to access and view the web pages from your device.  
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show An address that identifies a particular webpage on the Internet.  
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show A protocol used on the WWW to communicate between web browsers and the server in order to transfer data.  
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HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)   show
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show ID cards sent from a website and stored on the user's device by the user's web browser so the next time you visit that site it will know who you are and load correct pages.  
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SSL and TLS   show
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Encryption   show
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Decryption   show
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show A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.  
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show A form of encryption where a sender and a receiver share the same key used to encrypt and decrypt a message. The key has to be agreed on ahead in private.  
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Asymmetric encryption   show
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Cybercrime   show
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Computer virus   show
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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)   show
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Phishing scam   show
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show A network protocol that manages the sending and receiving of all your data. Its role is to do an inventory to see if all packets have been received.  
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Latency   show
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show Code standard for information interchange that is the universally recognized as raw text format that any computer can understand.  
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Network redundancy   show
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show Reducing information and detail to focus on essential characteristics.  
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show A computer that awaits and responds to requests for data.  
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Client   show
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show Software that runs on servers (often routers) that only allows traffic through according to some set of security rules.  
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