Electronic machine that processes command stored in the memory
What is a computer?
100
A panel of keys that operate a computer or typewriter. Most important input device
What is a keyboard?
100
A device that displays signals on a computer screen
What is a monitor?
100
Input device connected to the monitor.
What is keyboard or mouse?
100
Sequence of 1's and 0's that are represented inside the computer as a sequence of on and off signals in an electric current
What is a binary number?
200
Data storage device used for storing and retrieving digital information using rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material
What is Hard Drive Disk?
200
A small handheld device that is dragged across a flat surface to move the cursor on a computer screen, typically having buttons that are pressed to control functions.
What is a mouse?
200
An output device that produces a paper copy of alphanumeric or graphic data.
What is a printer?
200
Consists 2 primary components: the CPU and the RAM. Attached to the motherboard. It also contains the bus, a set of electrical connections, which allows the CPU and RAM to communicate with each other with all input/output devices.
What is a Processor Unit?
200
This person the CEO of Apple Inc. who died in October 2011.
Who is Steve Jobs?
300
Built into the PC, and is the first software run by a PC when powered on.
A chip located on all motherboards that contains instructions
The built-in software that determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk.
What is Basic Input/Output System?
300
A camera that records and stores digital videos.
What is a digital camcorder?
300
A rigid non removable magnetic disk with a large data storage capacity.
What is a hard disk?
300
Located on the Motherboard. Connected by the BUS to the CPU
What is Main Memory RAM?
300
The year Google was found.
What happened in 1998
400
A power supply is a device that supplies electric power to an electrical load. The term is most commonly applied to electric power converters that convert one form of electrical energy to another.
What is Power Supply?
400
A machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached
What is a Quick Response code scanner?
400
A small, portable, round medium made of molded polymer used for electronically recording, storing, and playing back audio, video, text, and other information in digital form.
What is a compact disk?
400
Located on the motherboard and connects the CPU to the memory.
What is Bidirectional Universal Switch (BUS)?
400
The founder of the Dell computer corporation.
Who is Michael Dell?
500
A graphics processing unit, also occasionally called visual processing unit, is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer.
What is Graphics Card?
500
A system that gathers information by using a hardware device that detects a mark or an absence of a mark from a scan tron.
What is an optical mark reader?
500
A flexible removable magnetic disk, typically encased in hard plastic, used for storing data.
What is a floppy disk?
500
Connected to the processor unit. Provides signal to Internet, Ethernet, and telephone lines.