Thinking inside the box
This is a characteristic of a CPU that allows it to run two or more operations at the same time.
What is mult-core?
Use one of these pen or pencil-like devices to draw on a tablet.
What is a stylus?
You plug this drive into your USB port.
What is a thumb/flash drive?
This is the unique numeric address of every device on the Internet.
What is an IP address?
These memory chips, store information that can't be changed by the user.
What are ROM?
This is the study of human factors that are related to things people use
What are ergonomics?
This type of storage medium "burns" pits and lands to represent digital 1s and 0s.
What is optical media (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray)?
This is a high-frequency transmission cable that delivers television signals as well as connects computers in a network.
What is coaxial?
Want to upgrade your computer with more memory? You might try to install one of these expansion modules.
What is a (SO-) DIMM?
This is a feature of an input device like a scanner that can read text images and change it into machine-readable code or text.
What is optical character recognition (OCR)?
This refers to the amount of time required by a storage device to retrieve data and programs from its medium.
What is access speed?
This is the measurement of the capacity of a communication channel.
What is bandwidth?
A processor is arithmetic logic unit performs two types of operations: arithmetic and this one.
What is logical?
Do you need to deposit a check? A check scanner uses this technology to "read" the funny marks and numbers on the bottom of a check.
What is magnetic ink character recognition (MICR)?
A computer's primary storage comes from this physical component.
What is RAM?
This is the class of networks described as bus, ring, star, tree, and mesh.
What are topologies?
This refers to the number of times a CPU can fetch and process data or instructions in one second.
What is clock speed?
This is a monitor feature that is expresses its area in the number of pixels horizontally and vertically.
What is resolution?
You can improve storage performance of a computer by using multiple storage together known as this acronym.
What is Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)?
This describes the process of converting from digital to analog signals.
What is modulation?