CPU & Storage
To hook up a new webcam to your desktop computer, you'll want to use this 3-letter type of port.
What is a USB?
You use this wireless-technology standard to pair your earbuds to your cell phone.
What is Bluetooth
A collection of raw facts, and may be devoid of context or intent.
What is data?
When a company successfully attracts more customers, earns more profit, or returns more value to its shareholders than rival firms do, it has this.
What is competitive advantage?
The lowest level of data storage, stored as either a one or a zero.
What is a bit?
Used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling or disposal.
What is electronic waste?
Peripheral hardware used to provide data and control signals to a computer. Examples include keyboards, mice, and joysticks.
What are input devices?
Processed data that possess context, relevance, and purpose.
What is information?
A framework to determine the profitability and attractiveness of a company's market. Includes Industry Rivalry, Bargaining Power of Buyers and Suppliers, Threat of New Entrants and Substitute Products.
What is Porter's Five Forces Model?
Digital computers use this number system in which the decimal number 12 becomes 1100.
What is binary?
This type of storage drive uses flash memory and provides fast data transfer speeds because it has no mechanical parts.
What is a solid state drive (SSD)?
One of the easiest ways to improve your computer's performance is to add more of this type of memory chip
What is RAM?
Human beliefs or perceptions about relationships among facts or concepts relevant to that area; can be viewed as information that facilitates action.
What is knowledge?
A business strategy where a firm offers customers its product or service at a lower price than its rivals can.
What is (low) cost leadership?
This unit equals 1000 kilobytes or about a million bytes.
What is a megabyte?
This long-term storage component stores information on magnetic platters and uses a read/write arm to transfer data
What is a hard drive?
The main circuit board inside a computer that connects the different parts of a computer together
What is a motherboard?
This component of an information system is a series of steps undertaken to achieve a desired outcome or goal.
What are processes?
A business strategy whereby a firm chooses to add value or lower costs for a smaller market.
What is a focus strategy?
Computer hard drives are usually measured in GBs, which are these.
What are gigabytes?
Personal computing trend in which microprocessors, sensors and other digital technology are being integrated into many everyday products.
What is the Internet of Things?
This component of the motherboard provides much of the electrical connections between different computer components
What is the bus?
A set of parts or components working together towards a common goal.
What is a system?
A set of activities that a firm performs to deliver a valuable product or service for the market.
What is a value chain?
The cycles per second ("clock speed") of a CPU is measured in this unit.
What are hertz or gigahertz?