ITF+ Module 2 Flashcards

This is a set of flashcards in the fill_in_the blank style for the ITF+ Module 2

What is Binary Notation?

A numbering system where each single digit can express only two values, in the range 0 to 1.

What is Hexadecimal Notation?

A numbering system that enables you to express 16 different numbers using a single digit in the range 0 to F.

What is a bit?

The basic unit of computer data, which can represent two values (zero or one).

What is a byte?

Eight bits

What is a Kilobyte (KB)?

1000 bytes

What is a Megabyte (MB)?

1000 * 1000 bytes

What is a Gigabyte (GB)?

1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes

What is a Terabyte (TB)?

1000 GB

What is a Petabyte (PB)?

1000 TB

What is a KibiByte (KiB)?

1024 bytes

What is a MebiByte (MiB)?

1024 * 1024 bytes

What is a GibiByte (GiB)?

1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes

What is a Kilobit per second (Kbps)?

1000 bits per second

What is a Megabit per second (Mbps)?

1,000,000 bits per second.

What is a Gigabit per second (Gbps)?

1,000,000,000 bits per second

What is a Terabit per second (Tbps)?

1,000,000,000,000 bits per second

What is a Megahertz (MHz)?

1 million cycles per second

What is a Gigahertz (GHz)?

1000 million cycles per second

What are integers?

These are whole numbers.

What are Floating-point numbers?

This type can support decimal fractions.

What are Boolean values?

A special numeric data type indicating that something is either TRUE or FALSE (with a 1 or 0).

What is a Character?

A single textual character, and can be a letter of the alphabet, a symbol, or, indeed, a numerical character.

What is a String?

A collection of text characters.

What is ASCII Data Representation?

Each number or character in a text file or string variable is represented by a seven- bit binary number.

What is Unicode?

Enables you to handle character data and express that data across platforms in a uniform way.

What is an asset?

Something of commercial value.

What is a security control?

A mechanism designed to protect an information asset or processing system.

What is ROSI?

Calculating the Return on Security Investment.

What is data exfiltration?

When an attacker removes data from your network without authorization.

What is Data encryption?

This means that data is encoded in some way that only a person with the correct key can read it.

What are Firewalls?

On a network, this can control how hosts and network applications are accessible to one another.

What is fault tolerance or high availability?

Technologies that enable you to ensure your data is available in the event of one or several failures of hardware or software components within your infrastructure.

What is copyright?

Automatic legal protection granted to certain types of work indicating that the copyright holder owns the right to control the use of the work, including rights of publication, distribution, or sale.

What is a patent?

Legal protection for some kind of invention.

What is a patent infringement?

Where someone uses, makes, sells, or imports your invention without your permission.

What is a digital product?

One that is sold or distributed as binary computer data.

What is DRM?

Various copy protection or Digital Rights Management systems.

What are analytics?

The process of using data in this way is usually called .

What is data?

The raw values collected by the system.

What is information?

Some level of summarization of the individual data points.

What are insights?

Things that inform meaningful business decisions.

What are applications/apps?

Let users do useful things with their computer, such as create and edit documents, browse websites, send email, watch videos, or play games.

What is Windows' User Account Control (UAC) security feature?

Used to confirm any important change to the system, such as installing a program or hardware device or changing a security setting.

What is a custom installation?

Allows you to choose specific settings, such as where to install the software and what icons or startup/autorun options to configure.

What is decimal?

The system (or base 10) is so well understood, it’s actually quite easy to overlook how it actually works.

What is a place value?

As with decimal, to express a value of more than one, you must use multiple binary digits in a system.

What is Hex?

You will also encounter this numbering system when you plan and implement Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

What is a cycle?

System memory and network technologies can transmit more than one bit per .

What is a "string"?

is a collection of text characters.

What is Data correlation?

means analyzing the whole data set and finding connections and links between data points.