Zusammenfassung der Ressource
GCSE ICT KEY WORDS
- Internet
- Latency
- Latency is the measurement of delay of an internet connection. It is the time in
milliseconds between a bit leaving one device and arriving at the other. Measured
in bits per second.
- Router
- Conntect a LAN to WAN.
- Bandwith
- Measurement of capacity of an internet
connection. It is the number of bits that can go
through the network connection in one second.
Measured in bits per second.
- Wireless Security
- Set an acess key/password.
- MAC Filtering
- Hide SSID
- Network
- Devices connected together to
allow communtication and to
exchange data
- Cloud Computing
- A system in which all computer programs and
data is stored on a central server owned by a
company and accessed virtually.
- Location Services
- Geo Tagging
- Adds GPS co-ordinates to the images for reference or
social networking apps.
- Email
- IMAP
- Emails pushed directly to phone/copy of
mail is kept both on client and server.
- POP
- Requries users to acess email via an internet
mail account/ mail deleted from server when
sent to client.
- Online Dangers
- Malware
- Software that is desgined to cause
problems for users
- Phishing
- A form of internet fraud that steals
valuable information
- Firewall
- A system designed to prevent
unauthorised access to your
computer when connected to a
network such as the internet
- Spyware
- Software that can be installed on your computer without
your knowledge which collects information about logins
and passwords and sends details to another computer on
the internet.
- Encryption
- For security,data is translated
into a secret code