Computers in the Workplace
External Computer Hardware
Internal Computer Hardware
Productivity Software
Media Software
100
Being familiar enough with computers that you understand their capabilities and limitations and know how to use them.
What is computer literacy?
100
CD-ROM drives, DVD drives, USB drives
What the most common external drive bays?
100
Used to regulate the wall voltage to the voltages required by computer chips - it is housed inside the system unit.
What is a power supply?
100
An application program that helps business owners manage their finances more efficiently.
What is accounting software?
100
Gaming software
What is entertainment software?
200
A type of computing that relates to emotion or deliberately tries to influence emotion.
What is affective computing?
200
A common output device that creates tangible or hard copies of text and graphics.
What is a printer?
200
The case that holds all the physical parts of the computer together.
What is the system unit?
200
Software used for training purposes and that allows the user to experience or control an event as if it is reality.
What is simulation software?
200
Programs used to edit photographs and other images.
What is image editing software?
300
The application of computer systems and techniques to gather potential legal evidence.
What is computer forensics?
300
A common output device that desplays text, graphics, and video as soft copies.
What is a monitor?
300
A device that permanently stores programs and data - can be internal or external.
What is a hard drive?
300
An electronic filing system best used for larger and more complicated groups of data.
What is database software?
300
Software that turns an artificial environment into a realistic experience.
What a virtual reality program?
400
The set of techniques used in processing and retrieving information.
What is information technology?
400
A powerful mobile computing solution that offers a large display and all of the computing power of a full desktop system.
What is a notebook computer?
400
An expansion card that is installed inside a system unit to translate binary data into the images viewed on the monitor.
What is a video card?
400
The personal information software used at ASD.
What is google apps?
400
A 3D modeling program used to create automated designs, technical drawings, and model visualizations.
What is CAD?
500
The practice of relocating technical work to countries outside of the US.
What is offshoring?
500
A large, expensive computer that supports hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously.
What is a mainframe?
500
A circuit board with specific functions that augment the computer's basic functions and provide connections to other devices.
What is an expansion card?
500
Program code made publicly available for free. It can be copied, distributed, or changed.
What is open source software?
500
Violating a software license agreement by copying an application onto more computers than the license agreement permits.
What is software piracy?