Abbreviations (Abkürzungen)
Operating Systems
Vocabulary (DE to EN)
Computing History
Multimedia
100
What does PC stand for?
Personal Computer
100
Which operating system is associated with Bill Gates?
Windows
100
Festplatte
Hard drive
100
What company did Steve Jobs help start?
Apple Inc.
100
Are AVI files video files or music files?
video
200
What does RAM stand for?
Random Access Memory
200
Which is the most popular mobile operating system: Android, Apple iOS, or Windows?
Android
200
Betriebssystem
Operating System
200
True or false: the first electronic computer was developed during WWII.
True
200
What type of files are JPEGs, GIFs, BMPs, PNGs, etc.?
Image files
300
What does CD-ROM stand for?
Compact disc - read-only memory
300
Which operating system is associated with Linus Torvalds?
Linux
300
Praktikum
Internship
300
In what decade were the first electronic mail systems developed?
the 1960s
300
True or false: musicians can record digital music in MIDI format.
True
400
What does HTTP stand for?
Hyptertext transfer protocol
400
What is the difference between iOS and OSX?
iOS is a mobile operating system; OSX runs on Mac computers
400
künstliche Intelligenz
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
400
What was the Y2K Problem?
A problem where computers counted the year 2000 as the year 1900
400
What is the main difference between MP3 and WAV files?
MP3s are lossy/more compressed than WAVs
500
What does USB stand for?
Universal Serial Bus
500
In Unix, what does the command "rm" do?
Removes/deletes a file
500
Nadeldrucker
Dot matrix printer
500
Who built the first mechanical computer?
Charles Babbage
500
Is GIF pronounced with a hard g (as in girl/go) or a soft g (as in giraffe/German)?
Both are officially correct!
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