Computer Basics
Having current knowledge and understanding of computers, mobile devices, the web, and other technologies...Understanding their capabilities and limitations and know how to use them.
What is Digital Literacy?
Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program
What is debugging?
A collection of computers and devices connected together, often wirelessly
What is a network?
A number system with a Base of 2
What is Binary?
A potentially damaging computer program that affects a computer by negatively altering the way a computer works without the user's knowledge
What is a virus?
The internet has its roots in a networking project started by this agency
What is the Department of Defense?
A graphic on the screen with a location, size, and appearance
What is a Sprite?
A computer dedicated to providing one or more services to other computers or devices on a network
What is a server?
0 and 1 are binary digits. These are the individual numbers.
What are bits?
The destructive event or prank a virus delivers
What is a payload?
A notice that guarantees a user or website is legitimate
What is a Digital Certificate?
Putting commands in correct order so computers can read the commands
What is sequencing?
Unique address of each webpage
What is a URL?
Equal to 8 bits
What is a Byte?
Hardware or software that protects a network's resources from intrusion by users on another network
What is a firewall?
A set of programs that coordinate all the activities among computer or mobile device hardware.
What is the Operating System?
An action that causes something to happen
What is an Event?
A device you connect to a computer or mobile device to extend its capabilities
What is a peripheral device?
255
What is the highest number that can be represented with an 8-bit binary system?
The process of restricting access to certain material
What is Content filtering?
A sequence of numbers that uniquely identifies the location of each computer or device connected to the Internet or any other network
What is the IP address?
A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again
What is a Function?
3 most basic functions of a computer
What is 'accept date, process data, and store information'?
3 types of data that a computer represents with binary
What are numbers, letters, and pictures?
A scam in which the perpetrator sends an official looking email that attempts to obtain your personal information
What is Phishing?