Unit 6 Vocabulary
By: Tram Tran
Lesson 19
Access statistics: Data that analyzes the visitors to a Web site.
Bandwidth: The capacity of an Internet connection.
Co-location: A service that allows customers to locate their own server at the facility of a Web hosting provider.
Dedicated hosting: A service that dedicates a single server to a Web site.
Denial of service attack: A malicious attack in which so many requests for a Web site are generated that legitimate users cannot get through.
E-commerce: Financial transactions taking place on the Internet.
Firewall: A hardware or software system that limits the communication through an Internet connection in order to protect a server or network.
Hackers: People who maliciously attempt to break into computer systems.
Hit: A request received by a Web server.
Page views: A count of pages served by a Web server.
Patch: A software fix.
Session: A visit to a Web site by a single user or browser.
Shared hosting: A service in which multiple Web sites are served from the same Web server.
SONET: Synchronous Optical Network, which is the standard for fiber optic transmission of data.
Static IP address: A permanent IP address assigned to a device.
T-1 line: A circuit sometimes used for Internet traffic.
T-3 line: A circuit equivalent to 28 T-1 lines.
Viruses: Programs that are written to do damage to computer systems.
Web hosting service provider: A company that sells Web hosting services.
Lesson 20
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP): A statement detailing the intended use of the network, what kinds of computer-related activities are appropriate and what kinds are not, and the consequences for violations.
Copyright: Legal protection that grants exclusive ownership to the creator of any original work—whether literary, musical, or artistic.
Deep link: A hyperlink to another Web site that bypasses the home page and jumps directly to an internal page.
Disk arrays: A group of hard disks that work together to store data in such a way that any one hard drive can fail without losing any data.
Extranet: A Web site that allows an organization to communicate and share resources with a select group outside the organization.
Fair use: A policy that entitles the public to use portions of copyrighted material without permission for reporting, research, and educational purposes.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP): The primary Internet protocol for transferring files.
Framing: Design structure that divides a Web page into separate parts.
Gopher: An obsolete protocol used to browse text files before the World Wide Web was established.
Inlining: The process of placing a graphic image on your site by linking to a file that is actually hosted on another site.
Intranet: A Web site accessible only by people within an organization.
Mail client: An application program that allows e-mail to be read and sent.
Port number: A label on a TCP packet that assists in routing the packet to the correct service on a device.
Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3): The protocol used to transfer e-mail from a server mailbox to a client.
Public domain: The legal status of material whose copyright has expired or never existed, such as work created hundreds of years ago.
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID): A specific implementation of a disk array that allows for data redundancy.
Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP): The Internet protocol that allows e-mail to the routed among host servers.
Tape backup system: A system that backs up server data onto tapes for safe keeping.
Telnet: A protocol that allows remote access to computers over the Internet.
Trademark: Any distinguishing symbol, figure, letter, word, or name that has been registered with a government patent office.
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS): A device that provides a battery backup to a computer and other devices in the case of a power failure.
Wide Area Information Server (WAIS): A network of databases that allows natural language searches to find text documents.