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NETBIOS is a programming interface that allows I/O requests to be sent to and received from a remote computer and it hides the networking hardware from applications.

NETBEUI is NetBIOS extended user interface. A transport protocol designed by microsoft and IBM for the use on small subnets.

Object Repository means not a collection of objects

it's a common repository for all the people (testing, developers) for seeing all the data in single login.

for example QA wants to see 5 testers works then he goes  to each person login and see the data. It's very difficult job. for this we can use Object Repository.

Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

Day dreaming, Meditation, Intoxication, Sleep and Hypnosis are all types of altered states of consciousness . In al these states, a person's state of conscious is altered but he has consciousness.