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100
The electric, electronic, and mechanical components of a computer.
What hardware?
100
The box-like case that contains the electronic components of the computer used to process data.
What is the system unit?
100
The term used for a collection of unprocessed items that include text, numbers, images, audios, and video?
What is data?
100
A collection of computers and devices connected together via communication devices and transmission media. Allows for sharing resources.
What is a network?
100
A program or a series of instructions telling the computer what to do and how to do it.
What is software?
200
A general term that includes a keyboard, mouse, microphone, scanner, digital camera, and PC video cameras.
What are input devices?
200
The term used for the electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed and data needed by those instructions.
What is memory?
200
Data when it conveys meaning and is useful to one or more persons.
What is information?
200
When an individual computer connects to a network.
What is online?
200
Enabling a software to work with the computer, printer, and other hardware components.
What is installing?
300
Output devices
What is the term used for devices that convey information to one or more people? (such as a printer, monitor, and speakers)
300
The central processing unit or the processor. Usually used interchangeably.
What is a CPU?
300
The electronic component that interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate the computer.
What is the processor?
300
A worldwide connection of networks.
What is the internet?
300
The programs that operate or maintain the operations of the computer and its devices.
What is system software?
400
Storage media
What is the general term for those components such as floopy discs, Zip discs, USB flash drives, hard discs, CDs, DVDs and memory cards?
400
A hardware component that enables a computer to send and receive data, instructions, and information to and from one or more computers. The most widely used device is the modem.
What is a communications device?
400
Storage device(s)
What is the term used for all items that record (write) and/or retrieves (reads) items to and from storage media? (This includes drives and readers / writers - including hard drives, CD drives and USB flash drives)
400
One service on the internet. Think of the web as a global library of information available to anyone connected to the internet containing billions of documents.
What is the world wide web?
400
The set of programs (part of the system software) that coordinates all the activities among computer hardware devices. Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, etc. are all examples of operating systems.
What is an operating system?
500
The hard drive.
What is the storage device on a computer that has the greatest capacity for information / data?
500
A program that allows a user to perform maintenance type tasks usually related to managing a computer, its devices, or its programs. Most operating systems include several utility programs (disc cleanup, disc defrag, printer drivers,etc).
What is a utility program?
500
A server controls access to a network. Computers connected to a network, called "client" or "workstation" request resources from the server. The server ordinarily has more power, more storage space, and is more reliable than individual clients.
What is a server?
500
C++, C#, Visual Basic, .NET 2003, JavaScript, COBOL, Basic,etc.
What are different programming languages? For a list of programs, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
500
What controls how you enter data and instructions and how it is displayed on the screen. Usually present in all software.
What is graphical user interface (GUI)?
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