Online Safety
Networks
Software
Vocab.
Hardware
100
The one thing you should never give away. A safeguard for access to a computer.
What is password?
100
Any website designed to allow multiple users to publish content themselves.
What is a Social Network?
100
The illegal copying and distribution of software.
What is Piracy?
100
A highlighted mark (sometimes blinking) on the screen that indicates the user's location. It indicates where the next letter or character will appear when keyed.
What is a Cursor?
100
The physical parts of a computer.
What is hardware?
200
A person who enjoys getting into your personal information without permission.
What is a hacker?
200
A local connection of school computers.
What is a Local Area Network?
200
Programs and products that you install into your computer.
What is a Software?
200
Data entered into a computer.
What is input?
200
The TV-like screen--an output device
What is a Monitor?
300
This data will allow all users to see.
What is public data?
300
A connection to computers out of the local range, as in a different state or country.
What is a Wide Area Network?
300
Software that is available for purchase.
What is Commercial Software?
300
Electronic junk mail.
What is a Spam?
300
An output device used to print on paper.
What is a Printer?
400
This includes your name,phone number, address, email address, social security number,and credit card numbers. You should not give it away to strangers.
What is Personal Information?
400
What we need to follow when we are on Facebook.
What is Safe and Secure Online Behavior?
400
The process of loading the operating system software into memory to start up a computer. Also called starting.
What is Booting?
400

A machine that performs four functions: input,processing, storage, and output. It can perform calculations and process a large amount of information accurately and much more rapidly than the human brain.

What is a Computer?

400
Output device that produces sound or softcopy.
What is a Speaker?
500
A contract that clearly details the use of Internet and the technology lap equipment.
What is Acceptable Use Policy?
500

Our school's O drive is an example of this.

What is Local Area Network?

500
A destructive computer program that disguises itself as a useful piece of software.
What is a Trojan Horse?
500
Polite and courteous behavior on the Internet.
What is Netiquette?
500
A device that reads data off a disk and/or writes data to a disk.
What is a Disk Drive?
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