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Free Vocab Resource
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| If anyone is looking for a great place to find definitions/explanations for just about any IT term, check out Webopedia at www.webopedia.com.
It's really helped me connect some of the terminology/concepts together and it's slick as snot for the alphabet soup of acronymns that I come across in my textbooks. What's also nice is that for any word that you plug in, it also give you a list of related terms/technologies that are associated with it.
Here's an example for even just a basic term such as Ethernet:
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A local-area network (LAN) protocol developed by Xerox Corporation in cooperation with DEC and Intel in 1976. Ethernet uses a bus or star topology and supports data transfer rates of 10 Mbps. The Ethernet specification served as the basis for the IEEE 802.3 standard, which specifies the physical and lower software layers. Ethernet uses the CSMA/CD access method to handle simultaneous demands. It is one of the most widely implemented LAN standards.
A newer version of Ethernet, called 100Base-T (or Fast Ethernet), supports data transfer rates of 100 Mbps. And the newest version, Gigabit Ethernet supports data rates of 1 gigabit (1,000 megabits) per second.
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It then includes about 20 terms that are related to Ethernet or were found in the definition (e.g. 100Base-T).
I'm a sucker for flash cards, so I've designed a MS Word template that creates them. Webopedia makes it easy because I just copy/paste the text that I need into my Word document.
Not sure if this will help anyone, but it's working for me as I prep for the exam.
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| Thanks for the tip! I, too, am a sucker for flash cards. Care to share your template? | |
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| Thanks for the tip. I take the iNet+ exam in one month. Any bit of help is appreciated!
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