Unit 2 Vocab: Networking and Computing Concepts

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Routers

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Devices that help 'route' network requests and send data packets

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Web page

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Page with information written in HTML and published on the WWW

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Sequential computing

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A computational model in which operations are performed in order one at a time

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Website

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Collection of web pages

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DDoS

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Cyber-attack that floods a server/network with traffic to disrupt operations

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Packet routing

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Routers direct packets between networks, choosing dynamic routes

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Web browser

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Software that displays an HTML page; HTML tags guide the browser

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Distributed computing

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A computational model in which multiple devices are used to run a program

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Link

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Connection between one page and another

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HTTP

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol