A table of columns and rows used by people responsible for tracking revenues, expenses, profits, and losses.
What is a Spreadsheet?
100
A smaller version of a microcomputer that is designed for portability, all components are included in a single unit.
What is a Laptop?
100
Raw facts figures, and details.
What is Data?
100
The data or information entered into a computer or the process of entering data or information into the computer for processing, storage and retrieval, or transmission.
What is Input?
200
The system unit in a computer located on a board mounted on the bottom of a computer base.
What is Motherboard/System board?
200
The general term for a set of instructions that controls a computer or a communications network.
What is Software?
200
An electronic system that can be instructed to accept, process, store, and present data and information.
What is a Computer?
200
The process of converting, analyzing, computing, and synthesizing all forms of data or information.
What is Processing?
200
The results of inputting and processing data and information returned by the computer, either directly to the person using the system or to a secondary storage.
What is Output?
300
The computer process of retaining information for future use.
What is Storage?
300
A set of instructions that directs a computer to perform certain tasks and produce certain results.
What is a Program?
300
A relatively compact type of computer, used in business and at home.
What is a Microcomputer/Personal Computer?
300
The process by which a computer locates and copies stored data or information for further processing or for transmission to another user.
What is Retrieval?
300
Software used to prevent, detect and remove malware.
What is Virus Protection/Anti-virus Protection?
400
A set of electronic circuits that perform the computer’s processing actions
What is the Central Processing Unit (CPU)/Processor?
400
A collection of data and information describing items of interest to an organization.
What is a Database?
400
A collection of computers and other hardware components interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information.
What is a Network?
400
A familiar, easy to remember names for computers on the Internet that correlate to assigned IP address.
What is a Domain Name?
400
A general term used for any device that is attached to a computer system.
What is Peripheral Equipment?
500
A storage medium that is external to the computer, but that can be read by the computer.
What is Secondary Storage?
500
A collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs.
What is an Operating System?
500
Larger, faster, and more expensive than a midrange computer, this computer is used for several purposes simultaneously.
What is a Mainframe?
500
The main markup language for displaying web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.
What is HTML?
500
The use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over the network (typically over the Internet).