Digitized Data
Turning data into digital data.
What is digitizing?
An example of a device that is made better by digital programming.
Answers may vary, such as a smart watch.
A PC, a laptop, a mobile phone, a tablet, and a gaming console are all different examples of this.
What is a platform?
It is what app is short for.
What is application?
What is malicious?
An example of a file format used for sound waves.
What is mp3, wma, aiff, or wav?
Examples of how a simple device such as a doorbell could be made better using digital technology.
Answers may vary, such as camera that sends video to the internet or speakers and microphones that allow 2-way communication or interconnectivity with the home security system.
Ways mobile devices are different from computers.
Answers may vary, such as smaller screen, touch-screen displays more common, optimized for different types of input such as TTS instead of keyboard, restricted apps, portable, etc.
A series of commands or set of instructions for a processor to complete a task.
What is software? (Also accept programs or apps)
What kind of malware promises you something good, but instead installs unwanted code on your computer?
What is a Trojan Horse?
Type of data compression in which the original file cannot be restored
What is lossy?
A group of computer systems and network devices interconnected to allow access to shared resources.
What is a network?
Ways a gaming console is similar to a computer.
Answers may vary, such as connectivity to the internet, input/output systems, stores information digitally.
3 examples of software uses.
Answers may vary, such as word processing, games, photo or video editing, utilities, etc.
Windows defender, spybot, and ad-aware are examples of this.
What are anti-malware programs?
The type of data compression that WMA ang PNG files use.
What is lossless?
Name 2 different types of networks.
What are home network and business network? (Other acceptable answers include WAN, WLAN, LAN, VPN, etc.)
Ways a gaming console is different from a computer.
Answers may vary, such as doesn't allow installing new apps, has proprietary software, has limited applications, etc.
The name for writing software using any of the various programming languages.
What is coding?
Malware that locks your data until you pay to have it unlocked.
What is ransomware?
This type of digitization is used for text data such as txt, doc, and pdf.
What is ASCII?
2 different network configurations include P2P and this type of network.
What is a client-server network?
3 things all platforms have in common.
What are processors (CPUs), input/output devices, and digital storage?
3 examples of programming languages.
This type of malware is more dangerous than a virus because it can self-replicate and spread itself throughout a computer system or network.
What is a worm?