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MIS 4153 -FINAL CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 8 KEY TERMS
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12/07/2009

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ACTIVE SERVER PAGES (ASP)
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Microsoft developed a now widely used dynamic page-generation technology call this?
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Benchmarking
Definition
Testing that compares hardare and software performances.
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Black List Spam Filter
Definition
Software that looks from addressed in incoming messages that are known to be spammers. The software can delete the messageor put it into a seperate mailbox for review
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Blade Server
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A server configuration in which small server computers are eached installed on a single computer board and thn many of those boards are installed into a rack-mounted frame.
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Centralized Architecture
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A server strcture that uses a few very large and fast computers.
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Challenge-Response
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A content-filtering security technique that requires an unknown sender to reply to a challenge presented in an email.
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Database Server
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The server computer on which database management software runs.
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Dead Link
Definition
A web link that when clicked displayed an error message instead of a webpage.
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Decentralized Architecture
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A server structure that uses a large number of less-powerful computers and divides the workload among them.
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Distributed Architecture
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Synonymous with decentralized architecture, which is a server structure that uses a large number of less-powerful computers and divides the workload among them.
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Dynamic Content
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Nonstatic information constructed in response to a Web client's request.
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Java Server Pages (JSP)
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A server-side scripting program developed by Sun Mircrosystems.
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Link Checker
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A site management tool that examines each page on the site and reports any URLs that are broken, that seem to be broken, or that are in some way incorrect.
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Load Balancing
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A piece of network hardware that monitors the workloads of servers attached to it and assigns incoming web traffic to the server that has the most available capacity at that instant in time.
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Log File
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A collection of data that shows information about Web sit visitors' access habits.
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N-tier architecture
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higher order client server architectures that have more than three tiers
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Open-Source
Definition
Freely available source code for software.
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Orphan file
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A file n the Web Site that is not linked to any page.
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PHP (Hypertext PreProcessor)
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A web programming language that can be used to writer server-side scripts that generate dynamic web pages.
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Ping (Packet Internet Groper)
Definition
A program that test the connectivity between two computer connected to the Internet.
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Remote Server Administration
Definition
Control of a Website by an administrator from any Internet-connect computer.
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Response Time
Definition
The amount of time a server require to process one request.
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Reverse Link Checker
Definition
A website management program that checks on sites with which a company has entered a link exchange program and ensures that link exchange partners are fulfilling their obligation to include a link back to the company's Website.
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Server Farm
Definition
A large collection of electronic commerce Web Site Servers.
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Spam
Definition
Electronic Junk mail
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Static Page
Definition
a webpage that displaus unchanging information restrieved from a disk
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Telnet
Definition
A program that allows users to log on to a computer and access its contents from a remote location.
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Throughput
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The number of HTTP requests that a particular hardware and software combination can process in a unit of time.
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Tracert
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A route-tracing program that sends data packets to every computer on the path (internet) between one computer and another computer and clocks the packets' round-trip times, providing an indication of the time it takes a message to travel from one computer to anouther and back, pinpooint any data traffic congestion, and ensuring that the remote computer is online.
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Virtual host
Definition
multiple servers that exist on a single computer
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white list spam fileter
Definition
Software that looks for From addresses in incoming messages that are known to be good addresses.
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