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Absolute Path

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Representation of the location of a resource on the hard disk with respect to the root.

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Addon

Back 2

A piece of software designed to enhance the capabilities of another piece of software.

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Authenticate

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Checking to make sure that a computer or user is who/what it says it is.

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Authoritative DNS

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Publishes DNS data for a given domain and its subdomains.

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AWSS

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An Amazon Web Services system is a part of a physical machine that is used as a server

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many may exist on the same computer.

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Bandwidth

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Measurement of the amount of data that can be transmitted through a network.

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Bookmark

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A piece of data used by a browser to allow the user to return quickly to a previously visited site.

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Browser

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A piece of software that renders web pages and allows users to view resources on a network.

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Browser Tab

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A separate viewing pane within a browser window, many of which may be open at once, allowing a user to switch quickly between web pages.

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Brute Force

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A method for determining a solution to a problem by sequentially testing all possible solutions.

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Certificate Authority

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Issues a digital certificate verifying that a given public key is owned by the entity named on the certificate.

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Ciphertext

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A string of text that has been converted to a secure form using encryption.

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Client Application

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A program that makes use of another piece of software or set of data.

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Client Machine

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A machine running a client application.

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Computer and Information Technology

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A group of computing careers focusing on the use of computers to store and manipulate data.

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Computer System Design

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A cluster of computing careers focusing on the creation and maintenance of networks and computer hardware.

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Cookie

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A small piece of data stored on the client machine that can only be accessed by the server that issued it.

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Credentials

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A set of information that identifies a particular user or machine.

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Cryptography

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The study and use of techniques for securing communication.

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CSS

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Cascading Style Sheets contain hierarchical information about how the content of a web page will be rendered in a browser.

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Decryption

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The process of converting a cyphertext into plaintext.

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Domain

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A region of the Internet that is grouped together for administrative purposes such as allocating ownership of resources.

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Domain Name System

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A hierarchical system for naming resources on the Internet.

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Dotted Decimal Notation

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A representation of numerical data in which groups of base-10 numbers are separated by dots.

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Encryption

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Process of converting plaintext to cyphertext.

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Ethernet

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A set of protocols and technologies used for computer networking.

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External Style Sheet

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A file containing only CSS code that may be referenced by many HTML files.

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Filter

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Allows some packets through while blocking others based on predetermined criteria.

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Flag

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An option associated with the execution of a particular UNIX command (i.e., –l or –a).

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FTP

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File Transfer Protocol uses a TCP-based network to pass files from host to host.

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History

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Information stored by a browser about the web resources that it has requested.

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HTML

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HyperText Markup Language is the most common language used for creating web pages.

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HTTP

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HyperText Transfer Protocol allows for the passing of structured text from one node connected to the Internet to another.

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ICANN

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is responsible for governing the development of DNS policy.

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IETF

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The Internet Engineering Task Force develops and promotes Internet standards.

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Inline Style

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CSS code contained directly within an HTML tag using the “style” attribute, affecting only the content of that tag.

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Internal Style Sheet

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A portion of CSS code indicated by a “style” tag and contained within the head of an HTML document. Styles expressed here affect the entire HTML document.

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Internet

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A global computer network that relies on TCP/IP for communication between machines.

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IPv4

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The dominant protocol for routing traffic on the Internet.

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IPv6

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A new protocol developed to replace IPv4, addressing the issue of IP address exhaustion.

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ISP

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Internet Service Providers provide users with access to the Internet.

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JavaScript

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A web-based language primarily used to alter the content that will be displayed by a web browser dynamically.

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Kill

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To stop a process.

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Latency

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Measure of delay in communication between two machines over a network.

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Name Server

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A computer dedicated to providing responses to requests for Domain Name information.