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Portable Document Format
This is a file format developed by Adobe Systems in 1992. PDF captures formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications, making it possible to send formatted documents and have them appear on the recipient’s monitor or printer as they were intended. This is because a PDF will maintain the original fonts, images, graphics as well as the exact layout of the file. |
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| A novel or improved idea, device, product, etc, or the development thereof. |
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| A computer is a programmable machine. A computer responds to specific set of instructions in a well-defined manner and executes pre recorded instructions. |
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A computer. A computer that awaits and responds to requests for data.
Example: a DNS server awaits and responds to requests for urls to be translated to IP addresses |
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| A groups of computers and servers that are connected to each other. |
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| ISP:Internet Service Provider |
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An ISP is your gateway to the Internet and everything else you can do online; a company that provides subscribers access to the Internet.
ISP. Examples:Verizon, ATT, Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, |
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A computer that requests data stored on a server.
Example: When you type an address into your browser, your computer is the client and it sends the request to the DNS server. |
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A program that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to serve the files that form Web pages to users, in response to their request, which are forwarded by their computers’ HTTP clients.
Dedicated computer and appliances may be referred to as a Web servers as well.
Web servers are computers on the internet that deliver(store) web pages. Every web server has an IP address and possibly a domain. |
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| A computer and storage device dedicated in storing files. Any user on the network can store files on the server. |
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| A server that sits between a client application, such as a web browser, and a real server. It intercepts all requests to the real server to see if it can fulfill the requests itself. If not, it forwards the request of the real server. |
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| The practice of using a network of remote servers from data centers all over the world hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. |
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| Cloud server hosting is when hosting services are made available to customers on demand via the internet. Rather than being provided by a single server or virtual server, cloud server hosting services are provided by multiple connected servers that comprise a cloud. |
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| A program that handles all application operations between users and an organization’s backend business applications or databases. |
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| A single computer in a network reserved for serving the needs of the network. For example, some networks require that one computer be set aside to manage communications between all the other computers. |
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| A computer that manages one or more printers, and a network server is a computer that manages network traffic. |
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| A computer system that processes database queries. |
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A way of representing information using only two options, usually 0’s and 1’s.
Yes/No
True/False |
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| Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information. |
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| A set of rules and standards used to communicate between machines. |
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| HyperText Transfer Protocol - the protocol used for transmitting web pages over the internet. |
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| HTML HyperText Markup Language) is the language in which the content and formatting of a web page are written. |
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| American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is the university recognized raw text format that any computer can understand. |
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