# Presentation: 440662

## But I’m Not a Techie!

- Alice Bettencourt HHS
- Alan Vander Mallie DOC
- Web Content Managers Workshop
- September 2005

## Five Categories for our Not a Techie!Jeopardy Game

- What is DNS?
- What is Security?
- What is Infrastructure?
- What is Privacy?
- What is an Error Message?

## Not a Techie!What is DNS? (Domain Name Service)

- $100  “The” Internet Standard
- $200   Provides Web Access
- $300   Microsoft Web Strategy
- $400   Identifies Web Location
- $500   Evolving Web Protocol

##  DNS   $100 

**The standard that describes how data is sent across networks.  One of the Internet’s most important elements.**
**What is IP? (Internet Protocol)**

##  DNS   $200 

**Is a company that provides customers and businesses access to the Internet.**
**What is an ISP? (Internet Service Provider)**

##  DNS   $300 

**Is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people, systems, and devices through software.  **
**What is Dot Net? ( .Net )**

##  DNS   $400 

**Is a means of identifying an exact location on the Internet.**
**What is a URL? (Uniform Resource Locator)**

##  DNS   $500 

**This protocol or set of protocols is making the wireless Internet a reality, and even if it isn’t totally successful right now, this industry is expecting enormous growth.**
- What is the Wireless Web or WAP? (Wireless Access Protocol)

## Not a Techie!What is Security? 

- $100  “The” Security Act
- $200   Internet Secure Protocol
- $300   Provides website security (& privacy)
- $400   Programs that protect a Network
- $500   System that identifies threats

##  Security   $100 

**This security act creates specific requirements for Federal agencies’ information security programs.**
**What is FISMA? (Federal Information Security Management Act)**

##  Security  $200 

**This protocol enables (encrypted) secure communications to pass bewteen a website server and a client, your browser.**
**What is SSL?  (Secure Sockets Layer)**

##  Security   $300 

**This method of encoding messages provides security and privacy for Intranets and Internet websites, email, discussion group postings, and other communications on the Web.  **
- What is Encryption?

##  Security  $400 

**A set of programs, located at a network gateway server, that protects the resources of a private network from users from other networks.**
**What is a Firewall?**

##  Security   $500 

**This system identifies and records all attempts to compromise a network.**
**What is IDS?  (Intrusion Detection System)**

## Not a Techie!What is Infrastructure?

- $100  “The” Internet communications device
- $200   Performs Web data exchange functions
- $300   “The” common web information format
- $400   “The” Application level protocol
- $500   Virtual Yellow Pages for Web services

##  Infrastructure   $100 

**A computer networking device that forwards data packets optimally toward their destinations through a process know as routing.**
**What is a Router?**

##  Infrastructure   $200 

**A collection of protocols and standards that enable simple, self contained applications to perform data exchange functions between applications, from simple requests to complicated business processes.**
- What is/are Web Services?

##  Infrastructure   $300 

**A specification developed by the W3C.  Is a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, Intranets, and elsewhere.  **
- What is XML? (Extensible Markup Language)

##  Infrastructure   $400 

**Describes how one application talks to a Web service and asks it to perform a task and return an answer.**
**What is SOAP? ( Simple Object Access Protocol)**

##  Infrastructure   $500 

**A virtual yellow pages for Web services that lets software discover what Web services are available and how to look them up worldwide.**
**What is UDDI? (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration)**

## Not a Techie!What is Privacy? 

- $100  “The” privacy invader
- $200   Summarizes Cookie Policy in code
- $300   Name for OnLine identity theft
- $400   Machine Readable Privacy Policy
- $500   Provides user friendly privacy

##  Privacy   $100 

**Stored on your computer and remains there when your browser session is over.**
**What is a Persistent Cookie?**

##  Privacy   $200 

**Is machine-readable and summarizes the website’s privacy policy relating to cookies only, and provides browsers with policy information.**
**What is a Compact Privacy Policy?**

##  Privacy   $300 

**An online method of identity theft that uses social engineering.**
**What is Phishing?**

##  Privacy   $400 

**The standard for machine readable Privacy Policy.**
**What is P3P? (Platform for Privacy Preferences Project)**

##  Privacy   $500 

**A user-friendly form of public key encryption.**
**What is PGP?  (Pretty Good Privacy)**

## Not a Techie!What is Error Message? 

- $100  Can’t find the file requested
- $200   You’re not authorized
- $300   Service is temporarily overloaded
- $400   Special permission needed
- $500   Your request times out

##  Error Message  $100 

**You get this error message number when the web server can’t find the file you requested.**
**What is 404 Error (File Not Found)**

##  Error Message   $200 

**You get this error message number when the Web server tells you that you are not authorized.**
**What is 401 Error? (Unauthorized)**

##  Error Message   $300 

**You get this error message when the web service is temporarily overloaded.  There may be server congestion, high traffic, or too many trying to connect.**
**What is 502 Error? (Service Temporarily Overloaded)**

##  Error Message   $400 

**You get this error message number when special permission is needed to access the site – a password and/or a username if it is a registration issue.**
**What is 403 Error?  (Forbidden/Access Denied)**

##  Error Message   $500 

**You get this error message number when you get impatient or your browser stops the request before the server finishes retrieving it.**
**What is 408 Error?  (Request Timed Out)**

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-    How Can I Learn More?

## More Tech Jeopardy or More Info?

- Federal Web Advisory Council Contacts:
- Alice Bettencourt HHS OS
- _[Alice.Bettencourt@hhs.gov](mailto:Alice.Bettencourt@hhs.gov)_
- 202-619-2493
- Alan Vander Mallie,
- Commerce Web Advisory Group
- _[Alan.vandermallie@mail.doc.gov](mailto:Alan.vandermallie@mail.doc.gov)_
- 202-482-0420