General
A common keyboard shortcut used to copy highlighted text or files.
What is Ctrl+C (or Command+C)?
This handheld input device is used to point and click items on the screen.
What is a mouse?
A secret string of characters used to verify your identity when signing in to an account.
What is a password?
This three-letter abbreviation refers to the visual, windowed way users interact with a computer, as opposed to typing commands.
What is a GUI (Graphical User Interface)?
This colorful arc appears in the sky when sunlight passes through water droplets after rain.
What is a rainbow?
This icon, often shaped like a small house, returns a web browser to its starting page.
What is the Home button?
This component cools the CPU and other hot parts inside a computer.
What is a fan (or heat sink)?
This hardware or software acts as a barrier between a trusted network and untrusted traffic.
What is a firewall?
This secure version of HTTP is indicated by a padlock icon in the browser's address bar.
What is HTTPS?
At 29,032 feet, this is the tallest mountain on Earth.
What is Mount Everest?
This unit of digital storage is equal to roughly one trillion bytes.
What is a Terabyte?
This common port shape, found on almost every modern computer, lets you plug in flash drives, keyboards, and chargers.
What is a USB port?
This type of malware locks or encrypts your files and demands payment to release them.
What is ransomware?
This number system, used internally by all modern computers, uses only the digits 0 and 1.
What is binary?
This Shakespeare tragedy features star-crossed lovers from feuding families in Verona.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Unsolicited bulk email, often advertising or fraudulent, shares its name with this canned meat product.
What is spam?
This main circuit board connects every component of the computer together.
What is the motherboard?
This type of attack floods a server or network with traffic to make it unavailable to legitimate users.
What is a DDoS (or Denial-of-Service) attack?
This markup language is the standard for structuring content on web pages.
What is HTML?
This is the only U.S. state that grows coffee commercially.
What is Hawaii?
These three letters refer to a private network connection that encrypts traffic, often used to access work resources remotely.
What is a VPN (Virtual Private Network)?
This faster type of storage drive uses flash memory and has no moving parts, unlike a traditional HDD.
What is an SSD (Solid State Drive)?
This authorized simulated attack against a system is performed to find security weaknesses before bad actors do.
What is penetration testing (or a pen test)?
These four numbers, separated by dots and ranging from 0 to 255, make up an IPv4 address.
What are octets?
Including Pluto's reclassification, this is the current official number of planets in our solar system.
What is 8?