Basic Bits
How good is your memory?
Networking and Processing
Component Conundrums
Spider Bytes
100
The smallest unit of computer data
What is a bit?
100
Computer memory that stores info temporarily
What is RAM
100
A small network within a room.
What is a LAN?
100
The large magnetic storage device in a computer.
What is a hard drive?
100
A billion bytes.
What is a gigabyte?
200
Eight bits of computer data
What is a byte?
200
A word that is created from a series of words
What is an acronym?
200
A large network composed of smaller networks.
What is a WAN?
200
The part of a computer that powers all the internal parts.
What is a power supply?
200
A trillion bytes?
What is a terabyte?
300
The counting system digital devices and computers use.
What is binary?
300
Memory that can be written once but can be read many times
What is ROM?
300
A shared computer in a network that can control a network.
What is a server?
300
The part of a computer that contains all the logic circuits.
What is the processor?
300
A million bytes?
What is a megabyte?
400
The physical parts of the computer
What is hardware
400
A set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do
What is software?
400
Central piece of hardware in a network that allows the computers to communicate.
What is a switch/hub?
400
The part of a computer that controls and connects all of the parts.
What is the mother board?
400
What is a URL?
500
In base 2 the code 00000111
What is 7?
500
The software that manages the hardware and software
What is an operating system?
500
Motherboard, bus and CPU.
What are processing devices?
500
The highways of circuits on the motherboard.
What is the bus?
500
A group of network servers, in different locations and connected in no formal way, that allows file sharing.
What is the Internet?