CertiGuide to Network+  9  Glossary

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Anti-Virus Software

A program the created for detecting and/or removing computer viruses.

Application Program Interface. A standardized set of routines which allows developers’ access to an Operating System (O/S) in a standardized fashion.

Name of the network protocol suite used in Macintosh computers.

Responsible for getting applications access to the network.

A data repository that determines which media can be accessed by which applications and that sets the policies for that media. There can be any number of application media pools in a Removable Storage system. Applications create application media pools.

A set of routines that an application uses to request and carry out lower-level services performed by a computer’s operating system. These routines usually carry out maintenance tasks such as managing files and displaying information.

A proxy server that operates layer 7 of the OSI model.

Attached Resource Computer NETwork. Legacy baseband network architecture, popular in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

The protocol which maps a MAC address to an IP address.

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