Hardware/Software
Http & Html
Wires, Cables & Wifi
Computing Systems
CS Vocabulary
100

What do you call the programs that give instructions to the computer?

Software

100

The address of a website is known as ...

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

100

What three ways are bits sent?

Electricity, Light & Radio Waves

100

List the six layers of the computing system.

Information, Hardware, Programming, Operating Systems, Application, Communication

100

The physical parts of the computer, such as the CPU, the circuit boards, the keyboard, and the monitor.

Computer Hardware

200

What type of devices are the mouse, keyboard, camera & microphone?

Input Devices

200

What does HTTP & HTML stand for?

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)

200

Time it takes for a bit to travel from one place to another.

Latency

200

Which layer of the computing systems goal is to solve problems and give instructions used to manage data

Programming

200

When a computer programmer eliminates the need for one part of a program to access another part of a program.

Information Hiding

300

Any software that assists with the running or management of the computer system. This can include operating systems, security software and file management software.

System Software

300

What a website uses to remember who you are?

Cookies

300

How many kilobytes are in 1 megabyte?

1024 kilobytes

300

This layer of the computing system refers to data which includes: numbers, text, audio, video & images.

Information

300

A complete and functional computer that includes hardware, software, and can input & receive data.

Computing Systems

400

________ is the physical components of a computer and ________ is the program that run a computer.

Hardware / Software

400

Secure websites communicate on secure channels known as ...

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

Transport Layer Security (TLS)

400

What is 1 byte?

8 bits strung together

400
Which layer of the computing system uses specific software tools such as AI and simulations.

Applications

400

A device that processes data based on instructions from software and hardware programs.

Computer

500

Any software added to the system that enables the user to perform a task. For example, a word processor allows the user to type a document and a browser allows the user to view web pages.

Application Software

500

Binary sequences of 1s and 0s are sent physically ...

Wires, Cables & WiFi

500

The internet ships what type of information?

Binary
500

Examples of include Linux, MacOS, Windows, and Windows XP

Operating Systems

500
A thread of glass engineered to reflect light.

Fiber Optics