CertiGuide to Network+  9  Glossary

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EDP

Electronic Data Processing.

The amount of data sent over a given time period, minus overhead. Case in point: Page Per Minute rating for printers. The standard baseline assumes multiple copies of the same page.

Creates standards, such as EIA/TIA 568. The color/pin set in UTP.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. A 32-bit extension of the ISA bus, released in the late 1980’s. Expansion cards required configuration diskettes.

Information created in another application that has been pasted inside a document. When information is embedded, you can edit it in the new document by using toolbars and menus from the original program. When you double-click the embedded icon, the toolbars and menus from the program used to create the information appear. Embedded information is not linked to the original file. If you change information in one place, it is not updated in the other.

A disk, created by the Backup utility, that contains copies of three of the files stored in the %SystemRoot%/Repair folder, including Setup.log that contains a list of system files installed on the computer. This disk can be used during the Emergency Repair Process to repair your computer if it will not start or if your system files are damaged or erased.

ElectroMagnetic Interference. Undesired energy from external sources that interfere with transmissions. Typical sources include: motors and fluorescent lighting. Refer to RFI. (Radio Frequency Interference).

An IPSec protocol that provides confidentiality, in addition to authentication, integrity, and anti-replay. ESP can be used alone, in combination with AH, or nested with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). ESP does not normally sign the entire packet unless it is being tunneled. Ordinarily, just the data payload is protected, not the IP header.

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