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Year 7 Networking unit

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Bits   show
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BYTE   show
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Bandwidth   show
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Bitrate   show
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Fiber optic cable   show
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Wireless network   show
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Wired network   show
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Mobile network   show
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Internet Protocol (IP)   show
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show A company that provides customers with Internet access.  
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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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show A global wide area network (WAN) that connects computer systems across the world.  
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Web browser   show
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)   show
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)   show
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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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show A layer of security that provides secure channel for your online communications and protects you from hackers, by checking that a website has an authentic digital certificate.  
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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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Symmetric encryption   show
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Asymmetric encryption   show
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Cybercrime   show
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Computer virus   show
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show When a virus affects millions of computers worldwide and creates a BOT NET (digital bomb) to attack and take down websites. This is achieved by the hackers overwhelming a website with too many requests.  
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Phishing scam   show
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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)   show
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Latency   show
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ASCII   show
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Network redundancy   show
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Abstraction   show
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show A computer that awaits and responds to requests for data.  
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show A computer that requests data stored on a server.  
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Firewall   show
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