File Management Tools
Computer File Basics
How Computers Represent Data
100
A collection of data that exists on a storage medium.
What is a file?
100
A set of letters, symbols, or numbers that identifies a file.
What is a filename?
100
The number system used by computers to represent data.
What is the binary number system?
200
A logical representation of where you store your files on a computer.
What is a folder?
200
A set of letters and/or numbers added to the end of a filename following a period that help to identify the contents of a file.
What is a file extension?
200
0 or 1
What is a binary digit or bit?
300
This defines the location of a file on a storage device.
What is its file path?
300
A file property usually measured in bytes, kilobytes, or megabytes.
What is file size?
300
Text, numbers, graphics, sound, and video that have been converted into the digits 0 and 1.
What is digital data?
400
The main directory of the hard drive or storage medium.
What is the root directory?
400
The file extension for an Office 2010 Word file.
What is .docx?
400
A series of 8 bits.
What is a byte?
500
The name of the file management software within Windows.
What is Windows Explorer?
500
The file extension for a compressed file.
What is .zip?
500
The term used to describe a billion bytes.
What is a Gigabyte?
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