External Equipment
A device that can be connected to a computer or network that looks at paper documents and converts them into digital files.
What is a Scanner
This connector type is used to connect older monitors to a computer. You can identify this connector by its blue color and three rows of pins.
What is Video Graphics Array (VGA)
Basic of computing and processing
What is Input, Processing, Output, and Storage
The most important part of any modern computer system that controls the other parts of the computer
What is the Central Processing Unit (CPU)
An operating system interface that allows a user to interact with the computer by displaying pictures, icons, and other images on a screen to represent files, folders, and system controls and by accepting input from a mouse or a touch screen
What is Graphical User Interface (GUI)
A device, usually external to a computer, that is plugged into a computer's communication port or is connected wirelessly. Common peripherals are keyboards, mice, monitors, speakers, and printers.
What is are Peripherals - keyboard, mice, monitors, speakers, and printers.
This computer connector was introduced in 2014. It is simpler than the previous types. Both ends of a connector are the same and the cord allows bi-directional power flow, so a host device can charge a peripheral, and a peripheral device can charge a host. Best of all, you don't need a specialized connector for each pair of devices; all ports are this type of connector; one connector will work for all ports, even Thunderbolt ports in newer devices.
What is USB Type C or USB-C
Common computing devices
What is Mobile Phones, Tablets, Laptops, Workstations, and Gaming Consoles
The main memory of a computer that can be quickly accessed by the CPU and where the computer stores data and instructions that it is actively using.
What is Random Access Memory (RAM)
An operating system interface that allows a user to interact with the computer by displaying text on a screen and accepting input from the keyboard. The input is entered and is used primarily by IT and other tech professionals.
What is the Command Line Interface
A common interface used to connect peripherals, such as mice, keyboards, printers, and digital cameras to a computer.
What is Universal Serial Bus (USB)
This connector is used to connect a computers to an newer flat screen monitor or smart TV.
What is High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
Information that a user physically entered into a computer by pressing a key on a keyboard, clicking a mouse, tapping a touch screen, pushing a button on a game controller, speaking into a microphone, etc.
What is Input
A storage device that uses light instead of magnetism to store information. This include CD-ROM, DVD, and Blu-ray devices.
What is an Optical Drive
A role of the operating system that helps keep storage devices well organized and maintained.
What is Disk Management
An interface primarily used on Apple computers that typically connects a monitor to a computer and can also provide DC power.
What is Thunderbolt
Some computers provide this type of connector which is rectangular in shape with a bevel on one end to keep you from inserting them the wrong way. It allows you to connect external devices, such as digital cameras, external hard drives, and scanners to the computer.
What is Firewire Connector
The operations performed by a computer to retrieve, transform, or classify information
What is Processing
A large, flat computer component that connects the important components of the computer, such as the CPU, RAM, and the BIOS chip. It also has power and other communications connections.
What is the Motherboard
Software that analyzes, configures, and optimizes the computer including backup software, compression software, disk cleaners, and antivirus software.
What is Utility Software
A short-range wireless communication technology used to connect peripherals such as wireless headphones, speakers, keyboards, mice, smart watches, printers, and game controllers to a computer, including smartphones.
What is Bluetooth
Most computers provide a this type of connector that allows you to connect the system to a network.
What is Registered Jack 45 (RJ-45)
The set of rules or standards you adopt that dictate how you act
What is a Code of Ethics
A device with similar capacity to an HDD that uses flash storage instead of magnetic disks to store data. This device is much faster and more durable than hard disk drives but usually are more expensive.
What is Solid State Devices (SSD)
Software that allows an operating system to communicate with hardware equipment, such as printers, video cards, scanners, and cameras.
What is the Device Drivers