Two or more computers that share data and resoures and which are connected to each other and to peripheral device
What is a network?
100
The representation of data as a 1 or 0.
What is a bit?
100
A file created by a user, usually with software, such as a report that you write with a word processing program.
What is a data file?
100
Software that searches executable files for the sequences of characters that may cause harm, and disinfects the files erasing or disabling those commands; also called virus protection software.
What is antivirus software?
200
A high-speed port to which you can connect a device with a USB connector you have the the computer recognize the device and allow you to use it immediately.
What is a USB port?
200
A computer network that interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building using network media
What is Local Area Network (LAN)
200
Tells the computer to initialize the motherboard, how to recognize the peripherals, and to start the boot process.
What is BIOS?
200
Words, numbers, figures, sounds, and graphics that describe people, events, things, and ideas.
What is data?
200
A set of storage locations on the main circuit board that store instructions and data
What is memory?
300
A magnetic storage device that contains several magnetic oxide-covered metal platters that are usually sealed in a case inside the computer.
What is Hard Disk?
300
A way to connect several computers over long distances, usually using phone lines.
What is Wide Area Network (WAN)
300
One character of storage speace on a disk or RAM.
What is a byte?
300
The transmission of data from one computer to another or to a peripheral device via a channel using a protocol
What is data communications?
300
About one million bytes
What is a megabyte?
400
A computer enviornment in which the user manipulates graphics, icons, and diolog boxes to execute commands.
What is Graphical User Interface (GUI)
400
A port used to connect computers in a LAN or sometimes directly to the internet; it allows for high speed data transmission.
What is an Ethernet Port?
400
Software used to write computer instructions.
What is Programming Language?
400
The term to describe networks connected using a standard radio frequency
What is Wi-Fi?
400
A website that looks exactly like another legitimate site on the Web but steals the information people enter
What is a Spoofed Site?
500
The set of events that occurs between the moment you turn on the computer and the moment you can begin to use the computer.
What is boot process?
500
A wireless technology standard that allows electronic devices to use short range radio waves to communicate with one another or connect to the Internet; the radio waves can be transmitted around corners and through walls.
What is Bluetooth?
500
The number system that personal computers use to represent character data.
What is ASCII system?
500
The card in a computer on a network that creates a communications channel between the computer and the network.
What is a Network Interface Card (NIC)?
500
The largest and fastest type of computer used by large corporations and government agencies for processing a tremendous volume of data.