Binary Bits
A tiny piece of silicone or another semiconductor material on a chip that forms the building blocks of a computer
What is a transistor?
This is raw facts, statistics, or values
What is data?
Data taken from the user or environment.
What is input?
Connections between products or habits.
What are correlations?
1000 bytes (KB)
What is a Kilobyte?
Storage that loses all of its contents when the power to the device is turned off
What is volatile?
A single binary value, either 0 or 1
What is a bit?
Data that is given meaning or put in a particular context
What is information?
Where data is held.
What is storage?
Organized collections of data.
What are databases?
1000 kilobytes or 1,000,000 bytes (MB)
What is a Megabyte?
Ultra-portable and durable storage that use memory chips to store data, so there are no moving parts.
What are Flash Drives?
Bits grouped together in a chunk of eight.
What is a byte?
Instructions that a computer uses to perform a certain task
What is a program?
The work that a computer does with data in the CPU.
What is processing?
Data that is kept safe from hackers but also kept private and not shared with the public
What is secure?
1000 megabytes or 1,000,000,000 bytes (GB)
What is a Gigabyte?
Hard Drive that has a magnetic platter with an arm that passes over and reads the data. Ha a large capacity and relatively inexpensive price compared to other secondary storage devices
What is a hard disk drive?
The number system that has only two possible values: 0 and 1
What is Binary?
A set of step-by-step instructions to solve a problem, commonly used to process data.
What is analgorithm?
The result a computer produces.
What is output?
An electronic device that automatically receives an incoming radio or radar signal and immediately transmits a reply signal as it reads and records.
What is a transponder?
1000 gigabytes or 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (TB)
What is a Terabyte?
Storage where devices use lasers to read and write data to and from a disk.
What is optical Storage?
A number system with 16 values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, and F. It is used only by humans, not computers and commonly represents colors, error messages, and memory locations
What is hexadecimal?
When date is turned into information through the use of an algorithm.
What is an asset?
Short term storage.
What is RAM?
The way that companies collect and process data in order to create new information
What is data mining?
1000 terabytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes (PB)
What is a Petabyte?
Hard drive that has no moving parts, but has a grid of multiple chips that store data. (SSD)
What is a solid-state drive?
A device that takes binary inputs—0s and 1s—and processes them based on specific rules to produce an output, which will also be a 0 or a 1
What is a logic gate?
Online servers that users can access through the internet
What is the cloud?
Devices that put information into or get information out of a computer
What are peripherals?
Stores files in one central place on a network instead of locally on each computer
What is a file server?
1000 petabytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes (EB)
What is an Exabyte?
A group of computers that can communicate
What is a network?