Concepts and Terms
This number system uses only 1s and 0s to represent all data.
What is binary?
This kind of software helps you write documents or create spreadsheets.
What is productivity software?
A group of computer systems connected together so they can share information.
What is a network?
A storage container for data that can be changed
What is a variable?
Secret string of characters used to confirm a user's identity
What is a password?
This part is known as the brain of the computer
What is the CPU?
A small program that helps the OS communicate with hardware
What is a Driver?
This is the program that manages a computer’s hardware and software.
What is the operating system (OS)?
This wireless technology is used for short-range device communication like headphones.
What is Bluetooth?
The rules of writing in a programming language
What is syntax?
The meanings of the letters of the CIA Triad
What is :
This component stores data temporarily for quick access by the CPU.
What is RAM?
These are the four basic functions of a computer: input, processing, output, and this.
What is storage?
This software allows multiple users to edit documents and chat at the same time.
What is collaboration software?
Physical address of a technological device
What is a Media Access Control (MAC) Address?
A programming concept that executes code based on whether it is true or false
What is a conditional?
Type of malware that locks your files and demands a payment
What is ransomware?
The main circuit board where all hardware components connect
What is the motherboard?
Turning data into secret code to protect it.
What is encryption?
This is the term for software that’s built into a device and runs it, like in a the BiOS, printer or microwave.
What is firmware?
Connects devices together within the same network. More advanced than a hub.
What is a switch?
This loop type continues as long as a condition is true.
What is a while loop?
the practice of sending fraudulent communications that appear to come from a legitimate source, usually email and texts
What is phishing?
An external hardware component connected to a computer to extend its functionality
What is a peripheral?
This encoding system can represent characters from every language in the world.
What is Unicode?
These are rules about what a user can or can’t do with a software program.
What are software licenses?
A device that takes the signals from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and translates them into a form your devices can understand.
What is a modem?
A specialized language used to manage and manipulate data in relational databases. It allows users to create, read, update, and delete data within a database.
What is a Query Language/SQL?
a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on pre-defined rules.
What is a firewall?
This older storage device uses spinning magnetic disks
What is a hard disk drive (HDD)?