A storage type with no moving parts and is very small.
What is Flash Memory?
100
The steps involved in the 7-step problem solving process.
What are Identify the problem, Explore the problem, Set goals, Look at alternatives, Select a possible solution, Implement a possible solution, and Evaluate?
100
A coding system traditionally used for text - based data.
What is ASCII, EBCDIC, or Unicode?
100
A type of pointing device.(Give at least 2.)
What are the mouse, stylus, touch screen, track ball, others?
100
A language using only two symbols, usually 1s and 0s.
What is binary?
200
The process of recording data onto an optical disc.
What is burning?
200
A broad topic/problem is broken down into smaller more manageable pieces.
What is drill down?
200
The factors that affect overall speed of a computer system.
What are amount of RAM, CPU process speed, bus speed, others?
200
The two types of printers.
What are impact (dot-Matrix) and non-impact (Ink-Jet)?
200
Where storage devices can be stored.
What are internal, external, or remote?
300
Each HD disk is divided into pie-shaped slices called ________ and circular lanes called _________.
What are sections and tracks?
300
An unambiguous, ordered sequence of finite steps that leads to the solution of a problem.
What is an algorithm?
300
A high speed memory located inside the CPU.
What are registers?
300
OCR stands for _________ and it is used by ________.
What is Optical Character Recognition and Scanners?
300
These are the types of monitors.
What are CRT and flat - panel?
400
The two storage systems: what the data is stored on and the device that reads the stored data are called __________ and __________.
What are storage medium and storage device?
400
Creativity's affect on the overall solution.
What is limiting the number and type of solution, others?
400
This type of electronic path inside the computer connects the CPU to the RAM and the other type of path connects the CPU to peripheral devices.
What are memory buses and expansion buses?
400
These influence storage capacity for digital cameras.
What are picture quality, . . .
400
The four different types of memory.
What are RAM, flash, ROM, and registers?
500
A dedicated part of RAM used to store the data next to data retrieved during a disk fetch.
What is disk caching?
500
A group gets together to solve a particular problem and come up with varying solutions free from judgment.
What is brainstorming?
500
The different parts of the CPU.
What are the ALU/FLU, Control Unit, Decode Unit, Prefetch Unit, Registers, Bus Interface Unit, and Internal Cache Memory?
500
The main difference between display screens and monitors.
What is display screens are part of the device and monitors are a separate device?