Basic Computer Questions

1. This is a set of related programs, located at a network gateway server, that protects the resources of a private network from users from other networks.

Secure socket shell

Firewall

General protection fault

Logic gate

Private key

2. This is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network.

Network node manager

Handshake

Gateway

Floating point unit

Fortezza

3. This is the smallest unit of data in a computer.

Exabyte

Byte

Bit

Gigabyte

Nit

4. This is the standard interactive and programming language for getting information from a database.

SQL

SSL

DCOM

PL/1

DASD

5. This is the place in a computer where the operating system, application programs, and data in current use are kept so that they can be quickly reached by the computer's processor.

Microprocessor

Random access memory

Access control list

Management information base

System tray

6. This is the device, or in some cases, software in a computer, that determines the next network point to which a packet is forwarded toward its destination.

Bit map

Router

Traceroute

Device driver

Transducer

7. This is the measure of the range of frequencies a communication signal occupies.

Radian

Frequency modulation

Frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Dynamic range

Bandwidth

8. This is the program your personal computer's microprocessor uses to get the computer system started after you turn it on.

Boot

Source code

Initialization

BIOS

Softswitch

9. This is a collection of small programs, any of which can be called when needed by a larger program that is running in the computer.

Digizine

Legacy application

Crosstalk

Servlet

Dynamic link library

10. This is the basic Internet program that lets you verify that a particular Internet address exists and can accept requests.

Universal Resource Locator

NOC

Ping

Resource Reservtion Protocol

Bandwidth Test