Computer System
A collection of unprocessed elements, which include text, numbers, images, audio, and video.
What is DATA?
What is a mobile device?
Microsoft Windows, LINUX, Android, MAC OS and MAC OS X
What are operating systems?
A small network. It is generally contained in a room or one building.
What is a LAN?
This allows you to speak into the computer and the sound signals are interpreted by the sound card.
What is a microphone?
1024 KB
What is a Megabyte (MB)?
The central printed circuit board (PCB) and holds many of the critical components of the system.
What is the motherboard?
Computer viruses that send copies of themselves over the network, often via email. They consume the computer's memory making it increasingly slower and may destroy and corrupt files.
What is a worm?
We use it every day on our cell phones and laptops.
What is WiFi?
For output of information generated by the computer through the video card and display the results on a screen.
What is a monitor?
The heart of the computer.
What is the CPU?
You need one of these to hear your music video.
What is a sound card?
Small files on your computer that sound like you should eat them but don't! They are there to help remember information for the next time you visit a website.
What are Tracking Cookies?
Online data storage.
What is the cloud?
Plugs into the USB socket located on the front side, or the back of your computer case. They are compact, hold large amounts of data, and are reliable (due to their lack of moving parts)
What is a USB Flash Drive (Thumb Drive)?
The program that is stored on the hard drive, is transferred here.
What is RAM?
This contains rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective casing.
What is a hard drive?
A category of malware that gathers information about your computer usage. It does not self-replicate but it does slow down your PD by using up computer resources.
What is spyware?
A card that is one of the most important components of a computer network. It identifies one computer to another.
What is NICs (Network Interface Cards)?
The type of storage drive that WeChat, Facebook or Instagram/ Snapchat is?
What is Cloud Storage?
Input, Processing, Storage, and Output
What is the Information Processing Cycle?
Components of larger products and usually small and have limited hardware.
What are Embedded Computers?
Strengthen your security, be careful what you download, do not respond to emails requesting personal information, create strong passwords, log out completely.
What are ways to increase your online safety?
the digital signal from a computer is converted into analogue form, and then sent over the analogue medium and then decoded back into its digital form.
What is a modem?
Electronic visual displays that can detect when you touch the display area with a finger, hand or pen.
What is a touch screen?