Hardware
Software
Hardware Concepts
Hardware
Part 3
Microsoft
100
A type of computer typically used by one person
What is a personal computer?
100
This type of software supports a computer's basic functions (turning on, opening software, controlling hardware)
What is an operating system?
100
This piece of hardware has several hardware subsystems that each perform their required tasks, including the processor.
What is the motherboard?
100
This type of hardware can be used to play music
What are speakers/headphones?
100

This function takes what is on the screen and converting it into a physical document

What is printing?

200
A type of computer that folds up for easy storage
What is a laptop?
200
This type of software is designed to help a user visualize information from the web
What is a web browser?
200
This storage device is used for storing and retrieving digital information
What is a hard dive?
200
This type of hardware can be used to view information
What is a computer monitor?
200
This keyboard shortcut will open Word's "Find" function
What is CTRL + F?
300
A small laptop that was made largely to access the internet
What is a netbook?
300
This type of software is used to directly control hardware devices
What is firmware?
300
This device is a temporary storage area of digital information
What is computer memory?
300
This type of optical disc is the new standard for storing movies
What is Blu-Ray?
300
This keyboard shortcut will save your document
What is CTRL + S
400
A device that allows the user to make a phone call as well as perform many of the basic functions of a computer
What is a smartphone?
400
This type of software is used for telling the computer how to execute a specific task (word processing, drawing, presenting)
What is application software?
400
This type of device receives information from the user and passes it to the computer
What is an input device?
400

This type of peripheral can convert hard copies of documents into soft copies 

What is a scanner?

400
This shortcut will select everything in your document
What is CTRL + A?
500

This type of server is designed to house data and programs that will be shared across multiple people

What is network server?

500
This is the process of placing or integrating a new software onto a computer
What is the installation process?
500
This type of hardware takes processed information and sends it back to the user in a new format
What is an output device?
500
This size of file is equal to 1,000,000 bytes
What is one megabyte?
500

This button combo will quit the program on a Mac computer

What is Command Q?