REVIEW FOR FINAL

FINAL REVIEW SHEET

KNOW THE FOLLOWING TERMS & CONCEPTS  You need to look up their definitions or concepts

I. Networks

 A. Network topologies

   Star

   Ring

   Bus

   Tree

   Mesh

 B. Network mediums

   Optical fiber

   Coaxial cable

   Microwave

   Satellite

    Geosynchronous satellites (early ones were not)

    GPS  Global Position System

   BlueTooth

   WI-FI

 C. Broadband

 D. Home networks

  DSL

  Cable

  Ethernet

 E. Client/server  vs.  Peer-to-peer

 F. Network links

router

   hubs

   modems (modulator de-modulator)  analog to digital & digital to analog

   Nodes

 G. NIC card  (Network Interface Card)

 H. WEB    collection of electronic documents on the internet

 I. FTP  file transfer protocol   (used to upload and download files)

 J. Asynchronous transmission

 K. Synchronous transmission

 L. Full Duplex

 M. Simplex

 N. Half Duplex

 O. Packets and Packet switching

 P. TCP/IP  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

 Q handshaking  two devices negotiating their protocols

II. TERMS

 Virtual reality

 Ergonomics

 Artificial Intelligence

  Expert Systems

  Natural Language

  Neural Networks

 Booting

 Hacker

 Cracker

 Firewalls—software to protect against hackers and crackers

 IP address

 Domain name

 Fuzzy logic

 Virtual reality

 Record Matching

III. Programming and Alice

 Method

 Object (instance of a class)

 Class

 Control Structures

 Loops  (while loop       for loop)

 Object Oriented Language  (Alice)

 Interactive

 Event

 Event handling routine  (event driven method)

 Parameters

 World level method

 Class level method

 Storyboard  (algorithm used for games and movies)

IV. History

 Grace Hopper—worked on COBOL  MARK I and Assembly lang.

 John V. Atanasoff

 Mauchly and Eckert

 Lady Lovelace

 Alan Turing

 MARK I

 UNIVAC

 ENIAC

 ABC

V. Operating System and Programming Languages

 UNIX

 Windows

 DOS

 Java

 Machine Language (low level, needs knowledge of hardware, uses 1’s and 0’s)

 Assembly Language (symbolic low level)

 Compiler

 Interpreter

 Variable

 Constant

 Data types   Character ‘a’    real   7.8    integer  7

(be able to work with expressions and determine their value  be careful with integer and know the mod % operation)

VI. Know the terms of your homework tracking Packets (and how they work)

 Ping  how it works and how it is launched (Through DOS command)

 Traceroute

 www.internettrafficreport.com

IN addition to this review sheet.  Study the review sheet for Test 2.