Storage Devices
Networks
Communication
Peripherals
Mixed Bag
100
This storage device is a separate freestanding unit that connects with a cable to a USB port or other port on a computer or mobile device.
What is an external hard disk drive.
100
This type of network is a network that connects computers and devices in a limited geographical area such as a home, school computer laboratory, office building, or closely positioned group of buildings.
What is a local area network (LAN).
100
This device initiates an instruction to transmit data, instructions, or information.
What is a sending device.
100
This input device is a small, flat, rectangular pointing device that is sensitive to pressure and motion.
What is a touchpad.
100
This device is a small metal or plastic device that looks like a tiny ink pen but uses pressure instead of ink and is classified as an input type device.
What is a stylus.
200
This storage device is a flash memory storage device that contains its own processor to manage its storage.
What is a solid state drive (SSD).
200
This network is a high-speed network that connects local area networks in a metropolitan area such as a city or town and handles the bulk of communications activity across that region.
What is a metropolitan area network (MAN).
200
This type of wireless communications equipment is a space station that receives microwave signals from an earth-based station, amplifies (strengthens) the signals, and broadcasts the signals back over a wide area to any number of earth-based stations.
What is a communications satellite.
200
This input device is an input device that contains keys users press to enter data and instructions into a computer.
What is a keyboard.
200
This communications device connects multiple computers or other routers together and transmits data to its correct destination on a network.
What is a router.
300
This storage devices is a flash memory storage device that plugs in a USB port on a computer or mobile device and is convenient for a mobile user.
What is a USB flash drive or thumb drive.
300
This type of network is a simple, inexpensive network that typically connects fewer than 10 computers.
What is a peer-to-peer network.
300
This device accepts the transmission of data, instructions, or information.
What is a receiving device.
300
This output device is a desktop monitor that uses a liquid crystal display to produce images.
What is an LCD monitor.
300
This is a type of network topology where a cable forms a closed loop (ring) with all computers and devices arranged along the ring
What is a Ring Network.
400
This type of storage is an Internet service that provides hard disk storage space to computer users.
What is Cloud storage?
400
On this type of network, one or more computers act as a server; the other computers on the network request services from the server.
What is a client-server network.
400
This navigation system uses line-of-sight (LoS) communication to determine geographic location.
What is the global positioning system (GPS).
400
This output device is a display device that uses gas plasma technology, which sandwiches a layer of gas between two glass plates.
What is a plasma monitor.
400
This acronym is used to describe a group of two or more integrated hard disks and is commonly seen when configuring server hard disks. It also an insecticide.
What is a RAID (redundant array of independent disks).
500
This type of storage is a magnetically coated ribbon of plastic capable of storing large amounts of data and information at a low cost.
What is Tape?
500
This type of network that covers a large geographic area (such as a city, country, or the world) using a communications channel that combines many types of media such as telephone lines, cables, and radio waves. It can also be one large network or can consist of two or more LANs connected together.
What is a wide area network (WAN).
500
This type of device is any type of hardware capable of transmitting data, instructions, and information between a sending device and a receiving device.
What is a communications device
500
This output device takes the text and images displaying on a computer screen and projects them on a larger screen so that an audience can see the image clearly.
What is a data projector.
500
This type of storage is a server connected to a network with the sole purpose of providing storage. Any user or device connected to the network can access it's files.
What is network attached storage (NAS).
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