Hardware
The computer's processor is like this human organ.
What is a brain?
Short-term memory that is deleted when the computer is shutdown.
What are RAM (Random Access Memory) cards/sticks?
What happens during the fetch step?
What is CPU gets the next instruction from the RAM
The programs that run on a computer
What is software?
Input device that allows you to enter text and use certain shortcuts.
What is a keyboard?
Output device that allows you to hear audio files played on the computer.
What are speakers (including headphones and earphones)?
Small operating system that controls the motherboard?
What is the BIOS system
Where data/files are saved long-term.
What is the hard drive (HDD and/or SSD)?
What happens during the decode step?
What is the CPU figures out what the fetched instruction means.
What is software made from?
Code-Computer language
Input device that allows you to record and transmit audio.
What is a microphone?
Output device that allows you to see the visual representation of programs (apps) and documents.
What is a monitor?
It controls the data coming from the computer going to the projector or monitor
What is a graphics or video card.
The computer part that allows a user to play CDs and DVDs.
What is the optical drive (disk drive)?
What is missing from the cycle Fetch... Decode ____
What is execute
Word processors
Input device that allows you to record images and video.
What is a camera (webcam)?
Output device that allows you to produce a physical copy of a digital document.
What is a printer?
It holds the data and programs that the CPU currently needs.
What is the RAM?
Storage device that stores data magnetically on a spinning disk.
What is the hard drive (HDD)? (also accept floppy disk)
When the CPU fetches the instruction from the main memory, where does it store it?
RAM
The system that manages and programs hardware resources for a computer.
What is the Operating System?
Input device that allows you to bring a copy of a physical document into your computer.
What is a scanner?
True or False. The Dot matrix printer is BEST suited for printing images
What is False
CPU stands for
Central Processing unit
This storage device is used in the same way as a hard drive (HDD), but does not contain a spinning disk and works faster.
What is a solid state drive (SSD)?
How many instructions can a CPU process at a time?
ONE
Software used to do everyday tasks on the computer.
What is applications software?
Input device that allows you to select and interact with programs (apps) including access to semi-hidden options.
What is a mouse?
Output device that allows you to display images and video onto a service without the use of a monitor.
What is a projector?