Digital Citizenship
A private combination of characters associated with the user name that allows access to certain computer, mobile device, or network resources.
What is a password?
A potentially damaging computer program that affects, or infects, a computer negatively by altering the way the computer works without the user’s knowledge or permission
What is a virus?
Programs designed to make users more productive and/or assist them with personal tasks
What is an application?
A separate freestanding storage device that connects with a cable to a USB port or other port on a computer or mobile device.
What is an external hard drive?
A computing device small enough to hold in your hand.
What is a mobile device?
The right to use a program or app, which provides specific conditions for use of the software and that a user typically must accept before using the software.
What are the terms of use/agreement?
Any illegal act involving the use of a computer or related devices.
What is a computer crime?
An application that allows users to organize data in rows and columns and perform calculations on the data
What is spreadsheet software?
A web app that evaluates our computer or mobile device to check for Internet and email vulnerabilities.
What is an online security service?
A small mobile device that contains a screen, speakers, controls, and game console all in one unit.
What is a handheld gaming devices?
A written guidelines that helps determine whether a specific action is ethical/unethical or allowed/not allowed.
What is a code of conduct?
Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer or mobile device hardware, software, data, information, or processing capability.
What is a digital security risk?
An application that allows users to create, access, and manage a database.
What is database software?
Storage device that includes one or more inflexible, circular platters that use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information.
What is a hard disk drive?
A portable personal computer designed so that a user easily can carry it from place to place.
What is a mobile computer?
An applied science devoted to incorporating comfort, efficiency, and safety into the design of items in the workplace.
What are ergonomics?
A scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and/or financial information.
What is phishing?
An application that allows users to create visual aids for presentations to communicate ideas, messages, and other information to a group.
What is presentation software
Device that uses electrical components to provide a stable current flow and minimize the chances of an overvoltage reaching the computer and other electronic equipment.
What is a surge protector?
A device, typically used in a home, that streams digital media from a computer or network to a television, projector, or some other entertainment device.
What is a digital media player?
The moral guidelines that govern the use of computers, mobile devices, information systems, and related technologies
What is a technology ethics?
Cybercriminal who has the same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge
What is a script kiddie?
A collection of individual applications available together as a unit.
What is a software suite?
A tool that reorganizes the files and unused space on a computer’s hard disk so that the operating system accesses data more quickly and programs and apps run faster.
What is a device defragmenter?
A special-purpose computer that functions as a component in a larger product.
What is an embedded computer?