General
Computer Related
Cybersecurity
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100

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"?

100

Also known as a computer screen.

What is a Monitor?

100

The process of identifying yourself or verifying who you say you are, usually through a multidigit code.

What is Multi-Factor Authentication?

100

Considered an open source operating system.

What is Linux?

100

This 2006 animated film features talking cars and a racecar named Lightning McQueen.

What is Cars?

200

What is the global system of interconnected computer networks called?

What is the internet?

200

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?

200

Sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to get people to reveal personal information.

What is Phishing?

200

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?

200

This is the largest planet in our solar system.

What is Jupiter?

300

Information processed by a computer.

What is Data?

300

It temporarily stores data while the computer is running.

What is RAM?

300

The term for malicious software.

What is malware?

300

This type of logic operates on just two values: true and false (or 1 and 0).

What is Boolean (logic/algebra)?

300

He is the gaming protagonist who loses his power-up and shrinks back down to "Small" form whenever he takes damage.

Who is Mario?

400

The unique number assigned to every device connected to a computer network.

What is an IP Address?

400

This is a group of adjacent binary digits that a computer processes as a unit.  

What is a Byte?

400

This is the process of converting information or data into a code to prevent unauthorized access.

What is encryption?

400

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?

400

 Which US presidents are on Mount Rushmore?

Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln?

500

The computer has four (4) functions, they are?

What is Input, Output, Processing, and Storage?

500

This small rectangular piece connects to the motherboard and stores the operating system and files permanently.

What is hard drive?

500

This type of malware disguises itself as legitimate software to trick users into installing it.

What is a Trojan horse?

500

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?

500

This is the year the UNLV was founded.

What is 1957?

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