Computer Hardware
A network device that moves traffic between two different IP networks.
What is a Router?
discipline that is dedicated to meeting the computer needs of businesses, schools, governments, and other organizations.
What is Information Technology?
A computer program that makes it so people, hardware, and software can interface with each other in a meaningful way.
What is an Operating System?
The act of taking someone else's work and passing it off as one's own.
What is Plagiarism?
The representation of text by assigning a unique binary code to each character.
What is Encoded Text?
A connector used to connect a computer to a wired network.
What is a Registered Jack 45 (RJ-45) Connector?
The study of computers and computing concepts. In practice, computer science deals with creating software and using computers to solve problems.
What is Computer Science?
A feature of the Windows operating system that keeps the system up to date.
What is Windows Update?
Books or articles written by experts who have credentials in a particular field of study.
What is an Academic Source?
An international 16-bit encoding standard that accommodates character sets from multiple languages, with each letter, digit, or symbol being assigned a unique numeric value.
What is Unicode?
A connector, typically white with three rows of eight pins, designed to connect digital monitors to a computer.
What is Digital Visual Interface (DVI) Connector?
An area of computer science that focuses on intelligent machines
What is AI or Artificial Intelligence?
A physical signal, such as text, numbers, graphics, or sound, interpreted by converting it into binary numbers
What is Digital Data?
The format used for citing academic sources, including author, date of publication, and journal title.
What is Citation Style?
An audible alarm that occurs when a computer encounters an issue before a power-on self test (POST) has completed when booting. The number and frequency of the beeps can be used to compare information found in the motherboard manual and identify the issue.
What are Beep Codes?
Short for modulator/demodulator, a network device that converts digital signals used by modern networks to analog signals that are typically carried by telephone or cable television lines.
What is a modem?
discipline that involves collecting and utilizing data to help organizations know what information they need, how to generate it, and how to turn it into meaningful decisions.
What is Information Systems?
An operating system interface that allows a user to interact with the computer by displaying pictures, icons, and other images on a screen to represent files, folders, and system controls and by accepting input from a mouse or a touch screen.
What is a GUI or Graphical User Interface?
Resources such as original speeches, letters, poems, laws, scientific fieldwork, and artwork.
What is a Primary Source?
process that combines knowledge, experience, and intuition to quickly identify the cause of a problem.
What is Troubleshooting?
network device that moves traffic within an IP network.
What is a switch?
Content that is owned by a copyright holder.
What is Intellectual Property?
operating system interface that allows a user to interact with the computer by displaying text on a screen and accepting input from the keyboard. The input is entered as commands. The command line is used primarily by IT and other tech professionals.
What is CLI or Command Line Interface?
Resources that compile or summarize material from other sources including bibliographies, abstracts, and online article indexes and databases
What is a Tertiary Source?
the most common format for text files in computers on the internet where each character is represented by a unique 7-bit binary code.
What is ASCII? ( Pronounced ask-ee)
American Standard Code for Information Interchange,