What is the main circuit board inside a system unit?
100
the ability of an operating system to have more than one program open at a time.
What is multitasking?
100
using a personal computer to combine and manipulate text and images to ceate documents.
What is desktop publishing?
100
Keyboards, mouse, stylus, touch screens, scanners, barcode readers, and speech recognition systems are examples of this.
What are input devices?
200
a bit
What is he smallest unit of data that a binary computer can recognize?
200
a special connector accessible through the exterior of the system unit case that is used to connect and external hardware device.
What is a port?
200
DOS, Windows, Mac OS, UNIX, Linux.
What are the five most widely used personal operating systems?
200
any application that contains more than one type of media (e.g.audio and video)
What is multimedia?
200
Monitors, flat-panel displays, plasma displays, data projectors, and printers are examples of this.
What are output devices?
300
a byte
What is eight bits grouped together?
300
a computer chip that performs the calculations and comparisons needed for processing.
What is a CPU?
300
a software program that performs a specific task, usually related to managing or maintaining the computer system
What is a utility program?
300
This enables a group of individuals to work together on a project.
What is collaboration software?
300
a collection of programs that manage and coordinate the activities that take place on a computer. It is the most critical piece of software installed on the computer.
What is Operating System or OS?
400
0’s and 1’s used to represent data.
What is binary digits?
400
What RAM stands for.
What is Random Access Memory?
400
the programs that allow you to perform specific tasks on a computer.
What is application software?
400
Google Notebook, EverNote and Zoho Notebook are examples of this application.
What is a Web notebook.
400
software programs given away by the author for others to use free of charge.
What is freeware?
500
it is the largest amount of bytes
What is a Yottabyte
500
This determines bandwitdth.
What is bus width and bus speed?
500
a software program that is not copyrighted
What is public domain software?
500
This application is designed to play audio and video files.
What is a media player?
500
software that must be installed on a computer before it is run.