Devices
A multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.
What is the personal computer (PC)?
A collection of instructions and data that tell a computer how to work
What is software?
Represents text, computer processor instructions, or any other data using a two-symbol system.
What is the binary-code?
A digital optical disc data storage format
What is a Digital Video/versatile Disc (DVD)?
A computer network that interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic region of the size of a metropolitan area.
What is a metropolitan area network (MAN)?
A panel of keys that operate a computer or typewriter.
What is a keyboard?
Software that communicates with the hardware and allows other programs to run.
What is an operating system "OS"?
The standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
What is the HyperText Markup Language (HTML)?
A small plastic disc on which music or other digital information is stored in the form of a pattern of metal-coated pits from which it can be read using laser light reflected off the disc.
What is a compact disc (CD)?
A computer network for interconnecting electronic devices centered on an individual person's workspace.
What is a personal area network (PAN)?
An electrical device worn on the ear to receive radio or telephone communications or to listen to a radio, MP3 player, etc.
What are earphones?
A specialized processor originally designed to accelerate graphics rendering.
What is a GPU?
A markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable
What is the Extensible Markup Language (XML)?
A form of computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code
What is the Random-access memory (RAM)?
A network that allows devices to connect and communicate wirelessly.
What is the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)?
A device used for observing, checking, or keeping a continuous record of something.
What is a monitor?
The electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. Fabricated on one or more chips, containing the basic arithmetic, logic, and control elements of a computer that are required for processing data.
What is a CPU?
A character encoding standard for electronic communication.
What is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)?
A type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in this cannot be electronically modified after the manufacture of the memory device.
What is the Read-only memory (ROM)?
A computer network that links devices within a building or group of adjacent buildings, especially one with a radius of less than 1 km.
What is the Local Area Network (LAN)?
An industry standard that establishes specifications for cables and connectors and protocols for connection, communication and power supply (interfacing) between computers, peripherals and other computers.
What is a Universal Serial Bus (USB)?
A finite sequence of well-defined, computer-implementable instructions, typically to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.
What is an algorithm?
An application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems that allows users to communicate data on the World Wide Web.
What is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?
An electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage and one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
What is a hard disk drive (HDD)?
A telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area for the primary purpose of computer networking, collection of local-area networks (LANs) or other networks that communicate with one another.
What is a wide area network (WAN)?