Across
- 2. a system of computers that are joined together so that they can communicate by exchanging information and sharing resources
- 7. storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of from a computer's hard drive
- 8. storing and accessing data in servers that are geographically closer to the user, rather than in the cloud
- 9. a computer program that manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network
- 10. a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
Down
- 1. common set of communication rules and instructions that each computer follows
- 3. an information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another
- 4. a storage device, generally inside of a computer
- 5. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, an early network and the technical foundation of the Internet.
- 6. the amount of time it takes for a packet of data to get from one designated point to another