Questions and Correct Answers 2025-
2026 Updated.
cybersecurity - Answer the practice of protecting information systems, networks, data, and
programs from digital attacks
cyberspace - Answer a network of hundreds of thousands of interconnected computers,
servers, routers, switches, and fiber-optic cables that allow critical infrastructures to work
digital - Answer technologies that generate, store, and process data as fixed numbers; binary
digits or bits in the form of zeroes and ones
information systems - Answer combinations of hardware, software, and networks that are
integrated together to collect, process, store, and distribute data
internet - Answer a global network of wired and wireless networks
web - Answer an information space consisting of a number of public resources that are
linked together and made accessible via the internet
consumer IoT - Answer all the users' networks around their personal and home devices
industrial IoT - Answer machines, computers, and people enabling intelligent industrial
operations using advanced data analytics for transformational business outcomes
Internet of Bodies - Answer connected devices that monitor the human body, collect
physiological, biometric, or behavioral data, and exchange information over a wireless or hybrid
network
Challenges Impacting the Adoption of IOT - Answer Security, Privacy, Data Control and
Governance, Standardization
sensors - Answer devices that respond to inputs from the physical environment and use
, actuator - Answer a device that converts an electrical signal into a corresponding physical
quantity such as movement, force, or sound
edge processing - Answer a process of data aggregation, manipulation, bandwidth reduction,
and other logic directly on an IoT sensor or device
IoT ecosystem - Answer a set of stakeholders that participate in the deployment of IoT
technology and the relationships between them
First wave of IOT - Answer Developing Sensors that could be connected to a network
Second wave of IOT - Answer focused increasingly on developing new types of sensors and
sensing materials, as well as on developing new communication technologies and protocols.
Communication technology that allowed widespread deployment of sensors
Third wave of IOT - Answer Data collection, processing, and security
IOT Stakeholders - Answer Information Providers, Platform Providers, Application
Developers, End Users
Information Provider - Answer IOT Stakeholder. Owner of sensor deployments. May use for
self or provide for wider usage. Also includes parties that aggregate and provide data from
multiple sources.
Platform Provider - Answer IOT Stakeholder. Provide functionalities like frameworks and
platforms for other participants to use so they can focus on their part (e.g., app development)
LPWAN - Answer low-power wide-area network. a wireless wide area network technology
that interconnects low-bandwidth, battery-powered devices with low bit rates over long ranges
and can be delivered through cellular networks.
Access Network - Answer that part of the network which is concerned with moving data to
and from a sensor or edge device into a backhaul network, often via a gateway. How IOT devices
achieve connectivity.