AP CSP Vocabulary - (ALL)
Bit - ANSBinary Digit. Single unit of records on a computer. Represented as a 0 or 1
Bit Rate - ANSThe quantity of bits that are conveyed or processed in step with unit of time
Protocol - ANSA set of policies governing the trade or transmission of information among
gadgets. A set of guidelines for sending, receiving, and decoding binary messages
Latency - ANSThe time it takes for a signal to arrive
Bandwidth - ANSTransmission potential, measured by way of bit rate
Boolean - ANSQuestion for which handiest two answers are possible
Fiberoptics - ANSMethod of transmitting records that utilizes mild
Copper Wire - ANSMethod of transmitting statistics that utilizes electrical current
WiFi - ANSA wireless networking generation that makes use of radio waves to transmit
records/information
Prototype - ANSA initial cartoon of an concept or model for some thing new. It's the unique
drawing from which something actual is probably built or created.
IP Address - ANSA number assigned to any object that is related to the Internet.
Packets - ANSSmall chunks of statistics which can be portions of a bigger, whole set.
Router - ANSA pc which gets messages visiting across a community and redirects them closer
to their meant destinations primarily based at the addressing facts blanketed with the message.
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) - ANSProvides dependable, ordered, and errors-checked
delivery of a stream of packets on the net. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually visible as
TCP/IP in writing.
Domain Name System (DNS) - ANSAn abbreviation for Domain Name System, the Internet's
machine for changing alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) - ANSThe protocol utilized by the World Wide Web. It
describes how messages are formatted and interchanged, and the way web servers reply to
commands.
,Abstraction - ANSReducing facts and element to consciousness on crucial traits.
Server - ANSA computer that awaits and responds to requests for facts.
Client - ANSA laptop that requests facts saved on a server.
Net Neutrality - ANSThe precept that Internet provider vendors should allow access to all
content material and programs regardless of the supply, and with out favoring or blocking
precise products or web sites.
Internet Censorship - ANSThe manage or suppression of what may be accessed, posted, or
considered at the Internet. It can be completed by using governments or through personal
agencies on the behest of presidency, regulators, or on their very own initiative.
Node - ANSVertex; Represented by a classified circle
Edge - ANSA line connecting nodes
Shortest Path - ANSThe lowest wait path among nodes
Routing Table - ANSA data table stored in a router that lists the routes to particular network
destinations
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - ANSA organization of volunteers, private residents,
authorities officials, and many others. Who promote net standards
Peer-to-peer networks - ANSNetworks that are designed to attach similar computer systems
that proportion facts and software with every other.
Censorship of digital records (DI) - ANSCommercial & governmental censorship of DI enhance
ethical and criminal issues.
Open supply software - ANSSoftware that effects from the voluntary collaboration of builders
who create programs that they distribute unfastened to others
Licensing of software - ANSOpen supply and Licensing of software and content boost ethical
and prison concerns.
Aggregation of Information - ANSconsolidation of statistics, which include geolocation, cookies,
browsing history, boost moral and legal concerns.
Anonymity in on-line interactions - ANScan be enable thru using on line anonymity software
program and proxi servers
, exploitation of records - ANStechnology enables an act that exploits or victimizes someone
(treats them unfairly)
proxy servers - ANSserver (a pc machine or an application) that acts as an intermediary for
requests from customers in search of resources from different servers.
Curation - ANSHow statistics and content material is presented
goal marketing - ANSCompanies goal precise corporations like youngster or elders, and so
forth.
Highbrow property - ANSRefers to intangibles along with ideas, track, art, images, logos, films,
and applications that are the result of creativity and intellectual effort.
Copyright - ANSAn distinct right granted by using the federal authorities allowing the proprietor
to reproduce and sell a creative or posted paintings.
Digital millennium copyright Act - ANS1998 act that criminalized the circumvention of any
anti-piracy encryption era on industrial software, eBooks, motion pictures, and music. It bans the
sale and manufacture of gadgets used to illegally reproduction virtual content material.
Wireless - ANSa form of pc networking or other communique that uses radio alerts and
microwaves to transmit statistics
digital divide - ANSA time period used to describe the discrepancy between humans who've get
right of entry to to and the sources to apply new information and conversation equipment, such
as the net, and those who do no longer have the resources and access to the era.
Socioeconomic - ANSA man or woman's role in society as determined through profits, wealth,
profession, schooling, area of house, and different elements
infrastructure - ANSFundamental facilities and systems serving a country, town, or place, as
transportation and conversation systems, energy flora, and colleges
commercial - ANSrelated to commercial enterprise
browser - ANSA program that permits the person to discover and examine pages on the sector
huge internet.
Hosts - ANSComputers that hyperlink character private computer customers to the Internet are
called: