Network Connections
File Security
Computer Processing
Computer Data
Magnatudes
100
Uses POTS (plain old telephone system) to transport data between your computer and your ISP (Internet service provider)
What is dial-up connection.
100
A copy of one or more files that has been made in case the original files becomes lost or damaged.
What is a backup.
100
A very thin slice of semiconducting material packed with microscopic circuit elements.
What is an integrated circuit (IC)?
100
The number system that makes it possible for computers to represent data by only using 1's and 0's.
What is the binary number system?
100
1 binary digit.
What is a bit?
200
Converts digital signals from your computer to analog signals used by the telephone system.
What is a modem.
200
A backup point created automatically or manually of your computer's settings.
What is a restore point?
200
A chip package that is mall with caterpillar-like legs protruding from a black, rectangular body.
What is a DIP (dual in-line package)?
200
Text, numbers, graphics, sound, and video that have been converted into 1's and 0's.
What is digital data?
200
A series of eight bits.
What is a byte?
300
A connection that provides high-speed, digital, always-on Internet access over standard telephone lines.
What is DSL (digital subscriber lines)
300
A removable storage medium containing the operating system files needed to boot your computer without accessing the hard drive.
What is a boot disk?
300
A chip package that resembles a pincushion.
What is a PGA (pin-grid array)?
300
The most flexible coding scheme for coding character data.
What is Unicode?
300
1 million bytes.
What is a mega byte?
400
The transmission capacity of a communications channel that determines how fast data travels over a network.
What is bandwidth.
400
A bootable CD/DVD that contains a complete copy of your computer's hard drive as it existed when shipped from the manufacturer.
What is a recovery CD/DVD (recovery disk)?
400
The computer's main circuit board.
What is a motherboard?
400
A series of of colored dots found in digitized images.
What is a pixel?
400
1 billion bytes.
What is a gigabyte?
500
High-bandwidth communication systems like cable TV, fiber-optic and DSL.
What is broadband.
500
Three types of backup procedures that either backup all the files or only those that have changed since the last backup.
What is a full backup, differential backup, and incremental backup.
500
The main processing chip in a computer.
What is a CPU (central processing unit)?
500
The way in which data is created, stored, processed, output, and transmitted.
What is data representation?
500
1 trillion byes.
What is a terabyte?
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