Computer Basics
Hardware Components
Peripheral Components
More Hardware :)
Networks
100
Keyboards, microphones, mice are examples of this type of device
What is an input device?
100
Short-term storage for open programs; once the computer has been turned off, it is wiped clean
What is the RAM (Random Access Memory)
100
This monitor has wo pieces of polarized glass with a nematic liquid crystal material sandwiched between the two
What is LCD (Liquid Crystal Display?
100
Many hard, thin magnetic platters that are stacked one on top of the other with only enough space for a read-write head to glide over the surface of the disks
What is the Hard Drive?
100
Network that spans a large area: city, state, nation, continent, or the world
What is a WAN (WIDE Area Network)?
200
A byte is made of how many bits
What is 8?
200
Series of connections, controllers, and chips that creates the information highway of the computer
What is the Bus?
200
Used to record voice or to use voice dictation software
What is the Microphone?
200
This delivers all electricity to the PC, contains a fan to help keep the inside of the computer cool; Designed to take the brunt of the force if the computer ever receives a power surge
What is the Power Supply?
200
Each computer on the network is considered equal
Each computer controls its own information and operation and can function either as a client or as a server depending on the needs of the other computers on the network
What is a Peer-to-Peer Network?
300
The computer takes data from the user and processes it using a machine language of ones and zeros
What is binary code?
300
Contains the central processing unit (CPU), basic input/output system (BIOS), bus, memory, ports, and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS
What is the Motherboard?
300
This monitor type consists of a cathode and anode within a vacuum tube; has high energy use and heat production
What is a Cathode Ray Tube?
300
Collection of connectors sticking of the back the PC
What is a Port?
300
´Centralized computer that controls the operations, files, and sometimes the programs of the computers (the clients) attached to the network
What is a Server-Based Network?
400
Monitors, printers, and speakers are examples of this type of device
What is output devices?
400
Runs the start-up diagnostics on the system to make sure all the peripherals are functioning properly
What is the BIOS (Basic Input/ Output System)
400
Mechanical, Optomechanical, and Optical are all types of
What is Mice?
400
Contains all of the circuitry for recording and reproducing sound on the PC
What is the Sound Card?
400
Bus, Ring, Star, Mesh are considered
What is Network Topology Configurations?
500
If the transistor circuit is closed and current passes through, it is assigned a value of
What is 0?
500
Microprocessor – small chip found in the motherboard
What is the CPU?
500
Wireless keyboards use this type of signal
What is infrared or radiofrequency (RF)?
500
Enables the PC to connect to other PCs that are on the same network
What is the Network Interface Card?
500
The nearly universally accepted standard for exchanging medical images among networked medical devices
What is DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine)?