Hardware and Software
Devices and Networks
Software in Office
The Internet!
Chapter 13 General Vocab
200

This type of software comes with your computer and helps it perform its major functions, such as executing programs and memory management. (pg 564)

What is an operating software/operating system?

200

True or False: if you are watching a deposition that was recorded earlier then you were watching it in real time.

False, because you are not watching it as it was happening.

200

This type of meeting between individuals takes place in more than one location, where the individuals can hear and see each other on computer servers in real time (pg 568) 

What is a video conference?

200

This was the decade in which the internet was first developed. (pg 563)

What is the 1960s?

200

This device converts text/images into an electronic or digital format that a computer can recognize. (pg 573)

What is a scanner? 

400

This process is the one a scanner undertakes when it reads a physical paper with text and/or images, and digitizes it (pg 555) 

What is imaging?

400

This commonly used input device input device allows you to place information into a computer. (pg 553)

What is a keyboard?

400

This type of converted electronic image preserves all features and styles from the original document, and is widely used for online legal documentation. (pg 559)

What is a portable document format (PDF)?

400

There are 6 original categories of domain names. Name 2 of them. (pg 564)

.com

.org

.gov

.edu

.mil

.net

400

This type of computer is NOT connected to any kind of network. (pg 573)

What is a stand-alone computer?

600

This type of computer memory cannot be altered, removed, or added to. It contains information like how to boot up the computer (pg 553) 

What is Read-Only Memory (ROM)?

600

Name one type of output device. (pg 555)

Monitor. printer, sound card, projector, headphones

600
This computer system is designed to provice reminders of important dates, potentially preventing default judgement (pg 556)

What is a tickler?

600

This type of online post is sometimes referred to as an audio blog. (pg 567)

What is a podcast?

600

This part of an intranet (part of the internet for the office only) is the part that outsiders have been given access to. (pg 573)

What is an extranet?

800

This type of network is available to people who are not geographically close to each other. (pg 555)

What is a wide area network (WAN)?

800

Which of these is not a communication device? 

A. Digital phone line

B. Real-time video

C. Modem

D. Scanner

A. Scanner

It is an input device

800

This type of software combines multiple taks in the control of a case, such as calandering or document control and assembly (pg 568)

What is an integrated package?

800

Also a food, this consists of unsolicited email messages, often containing commercial advertising. (pg 570)

What is spam?

800

This acronym refers to a series of interconnected nodes that can connect computers in the same office building to each other. (pg 573)

What is Local Area Network (LAN)?

1000

This type of internet connection can be given to selective outsiders of a certain organization. (pg 555) 

What is extranet?

1000

This multi-user system allows computers over a wide geographical system to share data and resources. (pg 555)

What is a Wide Area Network (WAN)?

1000

This type of program is used for capturing and reusing knowledge and work product of a law office, all the base knowledge of a law office. (pg 556)

What is a knowledge management? 

1000

Which of these is NOT an ethical problem in the use of computers.

A. Deception

B. Sharing of Metadata

C. Incompetence

D. Failure to provide supervision

B. Improper sharing of metadata is an ethical problem. 

1000

This software combines more than one application, such as word processing, spreadsheet calculations, and database management. (pg 573)

What is an integrated package?