Terms
Peripherals
Components
What Am I
Software
100
The predominant operating system in personal and business computing.
What is the Windows Operating System?
100
A category of peripherals that allow computers to exchange information.
What are communication devices?
100
The electronic device that allows computers to communicate over telephone wires or cable-TV cable.
What is a modem?
100
I'm a multiuser system that links computers that are in close proximity for communication purposes.
What is a LAN (or Local Area Network)?
100
This type of application software organizes, controls, distributes, and allows for extensive searching of electronic documents.
What is Document Management Software?
200
As we learned from the last election, computer hackers, viruses, and spyware are concerns when using this.
What is Email (or Electronic Mail)?
200
A broad term describing storage devices that permanently store information.
What is an Auxiliary Storage Device?
200
This computer system component is responsible for permanent, unchanging memory that a computer uses internally to operate itself.
What is ROM (or Read Only Memory)?
200
Each computer on my network acts as both a server and a client.
What is a Peer-to-Peer Network?
200
A category of software that helps users with the housekeeping and maintenance tasks a computer requires.
What is Utility Software?
300
These are used to set out the terms under which a person or group is allowed to use certain software.
What is a licensing agreement?
300
A wireless modem is an example of this category of peripheral device?
What is a Communication device?
300
This computer system component organizes and processes information.
What is the CPU (or Central Processing Unit)?
300
Thanks to me, VPNs setup outside of the U.S. can be accessed from within China.
What is the Golden Shield Project (or Great Firewall of China)?
300
This type of application software tracks the sequence and timing of the separate activities of a larger project or task in a law firm.
What is Project Management Software?
400
An internal network; provides and disseminates information to internal staff.
What is an Intranet?
400
A broad category of peripherals that enter information into a computer.
What are Input Devices?
400
This computer system component is responsible for temporary memory used when the computer is turned on and erased when it’s off.
What is RAM (or Random-Access Memory)?
400
I let users access their office’s computer network over the Internet while at home or traveling.
What is a VPN (or Virtual Private Network)?
400
The two best-known Internet-based research providers in the legal industry.
What is LexisNexis and Westlaw?
500
It provides, disseminates, and shares confidential information with clients.
What is an Extranet?
500
A category of peripheries that provide the user with data that the computer has generated or stored.
What are Output Devices?
500
The technical term used to describe the box that holds the guts of the computer.
What is the system unit?
500
I use a server or servers to enhance the functionality of other computers on a network.
What is a Client/Server Network?
500
This type of application software tracks and maintains the financial data and records of a business.
What is Accounting Software?
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