Internet quiz

  1. The Internet is a network of computing networks that is used for different locations to communicate with each other

  2. Net Neutrality - the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers (ISP).

  3. Digital Divide-the gap between those who benefit from the Digital Age and those who don't.

  4. Internet Censorship- control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet enacted by regulators.

  5. Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously.

  6. Path is connections between computing devices on a network starting with a sender and ending with a receiver

  7. Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can be sent in a fixed amount of time, usually measured in bits per second

  8. Latency - Time it takes for a bit to travel from its sender to its receiver.

  9. Bit- A "Binary Digit"; the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1

  10. Internet Service Provider - a company that provides subscribers with access to the internet.

  11. Protocol is a well known set of rules and standards on how to handle the information

  12. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the set of rules for transferring files -- such as text, images, sound, video and other multimedia files -- over the web.

  13. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force -a group that develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).

  14. Domain Name System is a system that can associate names with corresponding addresses

  15. World Wide Web refers to all the public websites or pages that users can access on their local computers and other devices through the internet.

  16. DNS Spoofing- hacking into a DNS server and changing the IP addresses to send users to a fake website

  17. Packets - Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information. They do NOT travel together when transferred.  

  18. TCP - (Also called TCP/IP) Transmission Control Protocol - provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet.  It puts all the tiny data packets back together.  

  19. Redundancy/ Network Redundancy- The inclusion of extra components so that a system can continue to work even if individual components fail, for example by having more than one path between any two connected devices in a network

  20. Fault Tolerant- Can continue to function even in the event of individual components failures. This is important because elements of complex systems like a computer network fail at unexpected times, often in groups

  21. LAN(local area network) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building

  22. WAN(wide area network) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area, such as a bank’s branch offices and ATM machines

  23. URL - An easy-to-remember address for calling a web page (like www.code.org).

  24. Internet Protocol (IP) is the method by which data is sent from one computer to another on the internet.

  25. Computing Device is a machine that can run a program, including computers, tablets, servers, routers, and smart sensors

  26.  Linear Search: Checks each element in the list until a target value is found

  27.  Binary Search: Checks the midpoint value in the list and compares the target value to the midpoint value