Computer Classifications
A collection of devices such as a keyboard, mouse, monitor screen, data processing hardware, memory storage and printer, communicating with each other for data processing purposes.
What is a Computer?
Music file
What is MP3 and Wav?
Explain LAN and what it does
What is Local Area Network?
A local area network is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.
These are known as desktop computers.
The computer you use at home or school
would be called a workstation in a network.
What is a Workstation?
A device with a television-type screen that displays information relayed from the computer system.
What is a Monitor?
A large computer system comprised of several pieces of hardware. It can fill a large room or even a warehouse. Used mostly by large businesses or corporations that need to process large amounts of data.
What is a Mainframe?
Video File?
What is Wmv, mov, mp4?
Explain WAN and who uses them
What is Wide area network?
Business, education and government entities use wide area networks to relay data to staffs.
can look like desktop computers; however, most
do not look like your “normal” computer.
do not really need monitors, graphics and sound
cards.
What is a server?
Alphabet arrangement similar to the Qwerty keyboard. The keys for the left hand are separated from the keys for the right hand to help prevent hand/wrist/arm cramps.
What is an Ergonomic Keyboard?
A much smaller version of the desktop which incorporates a flat-screen monitor, keyboard, mouse/touchpad, data processor, and memory storage in a compact case. Also called a notebook. Battery operated. Intended to be portable.
What is a Laptop?
.docx
What is a word document file?
This is a type of network where the
computers in the network share resources
among each other.
What is a Peer to Peer Network?
enables computers
to interpret data they receive from a network
or send data in the proper form along a
network.
What is a Modem?
Has a red beam of light that is directed out of the bottom of the mouse. The reflected light bouncing off of the desktop surface is what causes the mouse to communicate with the computer system.
What is an Optical Mouse?
A device built to reside on the desktop area, maintaining permanent connections to the printer and Internet, so that a laptop can just be placed on the dock rather than having to reconnect the wires to the printer and Internet every time it is moved.
What is a laptop dock?
Picture/image files
What is JPEG, BMP, PNG?
There is a hefty investment for this
network.
What is a client server network?
sort of like a car radio.
Every computer that has that
section of network (like a radio
station) can hear everything that is
being transmitted.
What is a Hub?
A device that is inside the case of the computer. It is a flat, thin board with circuits welded on it. It has connections to all the other devices that are inside the computer system. It has connections to all the devices that are externally connected to the computer system. Contains the CPU chip and ROM chip.
What is a Motherboard?
Computer system built on a smaller scale for single person use, sometimes referred to as a PC, which stands for Personal Computer.
What is a microcomputer?
GUI
What is Graphics User Interface?
someone who finds
access in a computer’s security system to
break into another machine.
What is a Hacker?
work a lot like a telephone system. Each
computer is given its own unique number by the router.
When information comes into the router, it is then sent
along to the correct number—or in this case, computer.
What is a Router?
– a silicon chip. Chip that transfers or processes ALL the data/information from one device to the other. Speed or processing time of the chip is measured in hertz.