CertiGuide to Network+  9  Glossary

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Hot keys

A Windows feature that allows quick activation of specified accessibility features through a combination of keys pressed in unison.

A new feature in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 that adds timing and media synchronization support to HTML pages. Using a few Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based elements and attributes, you can add images, video, and sounds to an HTML page, and synchronize them with HTML text elements over a specified amount of time. In short, you can use HTML+TIME technology to quickly and easily create multimedia-rich, interactive presentations, with little or no scripting.

The primary protocol for requesting documents on the Internet.

A hardware network component which operates as a common termination point for multiple computers (nodes). It relays all incoming signals to all other nodes on the star based topology. Hubs in Ethernet may ‘stack’ however only one hub may cascade (per connection) in Fast Ethernet hubs.

Intelligent Hub -- A hub with management capabilities. This can range from reporting to shutting down a port with a malfunctioning node.

A firmware specification that is a new standard for input and output devices such as drawing tablets, keyboards, USB speakers, and other specialized devices designed to improve accessibility.

A simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML files are simple ASCII text files with embedded codes (indicated by markup tags) to indicate formatting and hypertext links. HTML is used for formatting documents on the World Wide Web.

The protocol used to transfer information on the World Wide Web. An HTTP address (one kind of Uniform Resource Locator [URL]) takes the form: http://www.microsoft.com.

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