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  • What's file server?
    Server that stores users' files and enables them to be shared on a network
  • What's data packet?
    Small unit of data that is packaged to be sent across a network
  • What's biometric security?
    Security method that identifies people using a physical attribute (e.g: fingerprint)
  • HTTP's extended form?
    Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • What's router?
    hardware device that connects networks together
  • What's scalability?
    capacity to make something larger
  • What's NOS?
    Computer operating system that supports networks, often including additional administrator software and monitoring tools
  • HTTPS's extended form?
    Hpertext Transfer Protocol Secure
  • What's IP adress?
    A unique number assigned to a computer on a network
  • What's star topology?
    Network in each all devices are connected together to form a ring
  • What's microprocessor?
    Device that has one circuit but the input, process and output functions of a computer
  • What's terminator?
    Ending to a network cabel that absorbs the signal to stop it bouncing back
  • What's parity byte?
    Byte added to a block of data to check whether data is valid or invalid
  • What's Data packet ?
    small unit of data that is packaged to be sent across a network
  • What's firewall?
    To ensure that's safe
  • What's operating system?
    The software that manages all computer hardware and sofware
  • What's NOS's extended form?
    Network operating system
  • What's MicroPython?
    programming language used on the micro:bit
  • What's domain name?
    part of a URL that specifiaes the location on the internet
  • What's star topology?
    Network in which each device is connected separately to a cnetral switch
  • What's wireless access point?
    Allows device to connected to a network using Wi-Fi