CGS 1000 Final Exam pt. 2
A(n) ________ is a way of retrieving information from one or more tables that defines a particular subset of data.
Query
________ are hardware components that often contain firewalls.
Routers
A print server uses a print ________ as a software holding area for jobs waiting to be printed.
spooler
________ involves taking data from your database and putting it into an electronic file in a format that another external application or database can recognize
Exporting
A ________ keeps your computer safe by determining who is trying to access it.
Firewall
A(n) ________ address is the address that external entities use when communicating with your network
IP
A ________ is a group of two or more computers, or nodes, designed to share information and resources.
Network
In a ________ network, each node connected to the network communicates directly with every other node.
Peer-to-peer
________ is the process of translating a task into a series of commands that a computer will use to perform the task.
Programming
A ________ is a set of rules for how information and communication are exchanged
Protocol
Packet ________ is a form of protection for your computer that looks at each packet that comes into your computer network.
Screening
________ is the set of instructions that programmers have written in a higher-level language.
Source code
agreed-on set of rules defining how the language must be structured
Syntax
The main suite of protocols used on the Internet is
TCP/IP
In a database, a group of related records is referred to as a(n) ________.
Table
A data ________ is a large-scale electronic repository of data that contains and organizes all of an organization's data in one place.
Warehouse
________ enables users to define their own data-based tags and facilitates exchange of information between websites.
XML
translates source code line by line into an intermediate form
interpreter
Which of the following database systems uses artificial intelligence?
knowledge-based system
programmers' instructions written in a higher- level language
source code
defines the name, data type, and length of each field in a database
Data Dictionary
________ is the standard communications protocol used on most client/server networks
Ethernet
The main path of the Internet along which data travels the fastest is known as the Internet ________.
Backbone
________ is the amount of data that can be transmitted across a transmission medium in a certain amount of time.
Bandwidth
transaction data that are processed all at once
Batch Processing
A ________ sends data from one collision domain to another.
Bridge
The process that converts program code into machine language is called ________.
Compilation
agreed-on set of rules defining how the language must be structured
Compiler
A ________ is a group of related data that can be stored, sorted, organized, and queried.
Database