Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Miscellaneous
AWL Extras
100
A screen for a computer that shows information.
What is a monitor?
100
a device for taking pictures.
What is a camera?
100
Basic input output system
What is BIOS?
100
Data sent one-by-one.
What is serial?
100
The material from which computer chips are made.
What is silicon?
200
software for composing texts
What is a word processor?
200
data leaving the computer.
What is output?
200
One billion cycles per second
What is Gigahertz?
200
Non-volative storage on the motherboard.
What is ROM?
200
Images shown on a monitor.
What are graphics?
300
To gather and keep for future use.
What is "to store"?
300
The visible parts of the system.
What is hardware?
300
Part of the CPU designed to perform mathematical operations.
What is the ALU?
300
A standard way to stiore characters in digital form.
What is ASCII?
300
The ability to see and understand
What is recognition?
400
A careful study of the parts of something in order to uinderstand more about the whole.
What is analysis
400
a computer that fills a room
What is a mainframe?
400
The size of the physical paths down which the data and instructions travel in the CPU.
What is bus width?
400
Under the direct control of another computer, or connected to a computer network.
What is "on line"?
400
sitting firmly on top of something else
What is "mounted"?
500
a field of study
What is area?
500
A computer the size of a writing pad
What is a notebook?
500
Temporary storage that holds data and instructions in the processor.
What is the register?
500
A computer you can hold in your hand.
What is a PDA?
500
To adjust or fine-tune.
What is "calibrate"?
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