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AP CSP Vocabulary - (ALL) Exam
Questions With Revised Answers
Bit - answer✔✔Binary Digit. Single unit of information on a computer. Represented as a 0 or 1
Bit Rate - answer✔✔The number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time
Protocol - answer✔✔A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between
devices. A set of rules for sending, receiving, and interpreting binary messages
Latency - answer✔✔The time it takes for a signal to arrive
Bandwidth - answer✔✔Transmission capacity, measured by bit rate
Boolean - answer✔✔Question for which only two answers are possible
Fiberoptics - answer✔✔Method of transmitting data that utilizes light
Copper Wire - answer✔✔Method of transmitting data that utilizes electrical current
WiFi - answer✔✔A wireless networking technology that utilizes radio waves to transmit
information/data
Prototype - answer✔✔A preliminary sketch of an idea or model for something new. It's the
original drawing from which something real might be built or created.
IP Address - answer✔✔A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet.
Packets - answer✔✔Small chunks of information that are portions of a larger, complete set.
Router - answer✔✔A computer which receives messages travelling across a network and
redirects them towards their intended destinations based on the addressing information included
with the message.
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) - answer✔✔Provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked
delivery of a stream of packets on the internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually seen as
TCP/IP in writing.
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Domain Name System (DNS) - answer✔✔An abbreviation for Domain Name System, the
Internet's system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) - answer✔✔The protocol used by the World Wide Web. It
describes how messages are formatted and interchanged, and how web servers respond to
commands.
Abstraction - answer✔✔Reducing information and detail to focus on essential characteristics.
Server - answer✔✔A computer that awaits and responds to requests for data.
Client - answer✔✔A computer that requests data stored on a server.
Net Neutrality - answer✔✔The principle that Internet service providers should enable access to
all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular
products or websites.
Internet Censorship - answer✔✔The control or suppression of what can be accessed, published,
or viewed on the Internet. It may be carried out by governments or by private organizations at the
behest of government, regulators, or on their own initiative.
Node - answer✔✔Vertex; Represented by a labeled circle
Edge - answer✔✔A line connecting two nodes
Shortest Path - answer✔✔The lowest wait path between two nodes
Routing Table - answer✔✔A data table stored in a router that lists the routes to particular
network destinations
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - answer✔✔A group of volunteers, private citizens,
government officials, etc. who promote internet standards
Peer-to-peer networks - answer✔✔Networks that are designed to connect similar computers that
share data and software with each other.
Censorship of digital information (DI) - answer✔✔Commercial & governmental censorship of
DI raise ethical and legal concerns.
Open source software - answer✔✔Software that results from the voluntary collaboration of
developers who create programs that they distribute free to others
Licensing of software - answer✔✔Open source and Licensing of software and content raise
ethical and legal concerns.
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Aggregation of Information - answer✔✔consolidation of information, such as geolocation,
cookies, browsing history, raise ethical and legal concerns.
Anonymity in online interactions - answer✔✔can be enable through the use of online anonymity
software and proxi servers
exploitation of information - answer✔✔technology enables an act that exploits or victimizes
someone (treats them unfairly)
proxy servers - answer✔✔server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an
intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers.
curation - answer✔✔How information and content is presented
target advertising - answer✔✔Companies target specific groups like teen or elders, etc.
intellectual property - answer✔✔Refers to intangibles such as ideas, music, art, photos, logos,
movies, and programs that are the result of creativity and intellectual effort.
Copyright - answer✔✔An exclusive right granted by the federal government allowing the owner
to reproduce and sell an artistic or published work.
digital millennium copyright Act - answer✔✔1998 act that criminalized the circumvention of
any anti-piracy encryption technology on commercial software, eBooks, videos, and music. It
bans the sale and manufacture of devices used to illegally copy digital content.
wireless - answer✔✔a form of computer networking or other communication that uses radio
signals and microwaves to transmit data
digital divide - answer✔✔A term used to describe the discrepancy between people who have
access to and the resources to use new information and communication tools, such as the
internet, and people who do not have the resources and access to the technology.
socioeconomic - answer✔✔A person's position in society as determined by income, wealth,
occupation, education, place of residence, and other factors
infrastructure - answer✔✔Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as
transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools
commercial - answer✔✔related to business
browser - answer✔✔A program that allows the user to find and view pages on the world wide
web.
