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| a model that shows how the application is deployed across networks and computers |
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| broad design of the overall system structure; also called general design or conceptual design |
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| low-level design that includes the design of the specific program details |
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| Client-server architecture |
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| a computer network configuration with user’s computers and central computers that provide common services |
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| the computers at which the users work to perform their computational tasks |
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| the central computer that provides services (such as database access) to the client computers over a network |
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| the predominant language for constructing Web pages and which consists of tags and rules about how to display web pages |
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| Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP): |
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| the foundation protocol of the internet; used to provide reliable delivery of messages between networked computers |
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| a client/server architecture that divides an application into view layer, business logic layer, and data layer |
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| the part of the 3-layer architecture that contains the user interface |
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| the part of a 3-layere architecture that interacts with the data |
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| Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS |
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| ): an encrypted form of information transfer on the internet that combines HTTP and TLS |
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| Transport Layer Security (TLS) |
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| an advanced version of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol used to transmit information over the internet securely |
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| Content delivery network (CDN) |
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| a set of server computers, separate from the hosting computers, used to deliver such static content as images or videos |
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| the process of providing physical servers at a secure location and selling those services to other businesses that with to deploy web sites. |
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| : a hosting service with a secure location but in which the computers are usually owned by the client businesses |
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| a method to partition the services of a physical Web server so it appears as multiple, independent Internet servers |
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| an extension of virtual servers in which the resources available including computing, storage, and Internet access and appear to have unlimited availability |
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| Service Level Agreement (SLA): |
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| part of the contract between a business and a hosting company that guarantees a specific level of system availability |
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| Virtual Private Networks (VPNs): |
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| a closed network with security and closed access built on top of a public network, such as the Internet |
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| when independent computers communicate and share resources without the need of a centralized server computer |
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