Cord and Discord
It's Okay To Be Soft
The "Hard" Questions
Peripheral Knowledge
Take a Byte
100
VGA and DVI both send _____ to monitors.
What is graphics/images/video?
100
This extension marks a file as executable.
What is an EXE file?
100
This part of the computer supports the others by providing pathways for information.
What is the motherboard?
100
This output device is used to put words or images on different materials, primarily paper.
What is a printer?
100
A byte of made of eight of these little things.
What is a bit?
200
This is the more popular name for the RJ-45.
What is ethernet?
200
This type of application, which includes programs like Skype, allows users to talk to one another over the internet.
What is VoIP?
200
This part of the computer knows where everything is and processes all incoming and outgoing information. It also has the biggest fans, so it must be pretty popular.
What is the CPU?
200
This kind of device gives information to the computer's user.
What is an output device?
200
This is the language computers speak in, made up of 1's and 0's.
What is binary?
300
A place for ships, a dessert wine, and the place you plug cords in on computers all share this name.
What is a port?
300
This OS is--and will always be--free.
What is Linux?
300
This component uses frozen electrons to store information.
What is an SSD?
300
This is a DVD that can be burned over and over and over and over and...
What is a DVD-RW?
300
This is the name for 1024 Gigabytes.
What is a Terabyte?
400
This is the speed that USB 3.0 transfers at. You know, sometimes.
What is 5.0 Mbps?
400
This organizational system allows files to easily be found.
What are File Naming Conventions?
400
Contrary to popular belief, this acronym stands for the unit supplying power to the computer and not for a Sony console.
What is a PSU?
400
CRT and LCD are examples of this piece of output.
What is a monitor?
400
This type of program removes extraneous bits of data to save space.
What is File Compression Software?
500
This hot, popular cord is also known as the IEEE 1394
What is a Firewire?
500
Thanks to legal documentation, this type of program will always be free.
What is copyleft?
500
DIMM and SODIMM are the two kinds of this.
What is RAM?
500
A shorter wavelength allows this type of disc to hold about 50 GB of information, far more than its predecessor.
What is Blu-Ray?
500
USB 3.0 transfers data at this speed.
What is 5.0 Mbps?