General
Often the first and simplest step suggested by technicians, this action can resolve many minor software glitches and connectivity issues.
What is "rebooting" or "Turning it off and on again"?
Also known as a computer screen.
What is a Monitor?
The process of identifying yourself or verifying who you say you are, usually through a multidigit code.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication?
Considered an open source operating system.
What is Linux?
This 2006 animated film features talking cars and a racecar named Lightning McQueen.
What is Cars?
What is the global system of interconnected computer networks called?
What is the internet?
This item can be in the computer or separate from the computer, and is also known as "the brain" of the computer.
What is a CPU?
Sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to get people to reveal personal information.
What is Phishing?
This slang term for an unexpected glitch or flaw in a computer system was famously popularized by Grace Hopper in 1947 when she found a literal moth stuck in a relay.
What is a bug?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Information processed by a computer.
What is Data?
It temporarily stores data while the computer is running.
What is RAM?
The term for malicious software.
What is malware?
This type of logic operates on just two values: true and false (or 1 and 0).
What is Boolean (logic/algebra)?
He is the gaming protagonist who loses his power-up and shrinks back down to "Small" form whenever he takes damage.
Who is Mario?
The unique number assigned to every device connected to a computer network.
What is an IP Address?
This is a group of adjacent binary digits that a computer processes as a unit.
What is a Byte?
This is the process of converting information or data into a code to prevent unauthorized access.
What is encryption?
In networking, DNS is often called the "phonebook of the internet"; DNS stands for this 3-word system that translates domain names into IP addresses.
What is the Domain Name System?
Which US presidents are on Mount Rushmore?
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln?
The computer has four (4) functions, they are?
What is Input, Output, Processing, and Storage?
This small rectangular piece connects to the motherboard and stores the operating system and files permanently.
What is hard drive?
This type of malware disguises itself as legitimate software to trick users into installing it.
What is a Trojan horse?
A network that connects computers and devices within a limited area, such as a single home, office, or school building.
What is a "LAN" or Local Area Network?
This is the year the UNLV was founded.
What is 1957?