This part of your computer creates a display signal.
What is a Graphical Processing Unit?
100
A Software application through which users primarily
access the Web.
What is a browser?
100
The use of electronic communication that
allows two or more people at different locations to have a
simultaneous conference.
What is teleconferencing?
100
The process of converting an original message into a
form that cannot be read by anyone except the intended receiver.
What is encryption?
100
A communications medium consisting of thousands of very thin filaments of glass fibers, surrounded by cladding, that transmit information via light pulses generated
by lasers.
What is fiber-optic cable?
200
This part of your computer stores information and keeps that information even if the computer is shutdown.
What is a hard drive?
200
A grouping of logically related records.
What is as file?
200
Learning supported by the Web; can be done
inside traditional classrooms or in virtual classrooms.
What is e-learning?
200
A private combination of characters that only the
user should know.
What is a password?
200
A network that connects communications
devices in a limited geographical region, such as a
building, so that every user device on the network can communicate with every other device.
What is a Local Area Network?
300
This component is super fast, and can temporarily store information for the CPU to process.
What is system memory?
300
A grouping of logically related fields; describes an entity.
What is a record?
300
Malicious software that can attach itself to (or “infect”)
other computer programs without the owner of the program
being aware of the infection.
What is a virus?
300
Crime in which someone uses the personal
information of others to create a false identity and then uses it for some fraud.
What is identity theft?
300
A communications processor that routes messages
from a LAN to the Internet, across several connected LANs, or across a wide area network such as the Internet.
What is a router?
400
This type of computer is usually accessed remotely by many users. It is also used for mass storage.
What is a server?
400
A binary digit—that is, a 0 or a 1.
What is a bit?
400
Diverse, high-volume, high-velocity information
assets that require new forms of processing to enable enhanced
decision making, insight discovery, and process optimization.
bit A binary digit—that is, a 0 or a 1.
What is Big Data?
400
A system (either hardware, software, or a combination
of both) that prevents a specifi c type of information from
moving between untrusted networks, such as the Internet, and private networks, such as your company’s network.
What is a firewall?
400
The name assigned to an Internet site, consisting
of multiple parts, separated by dots, which are translated
from right to left.
What is a domain name?
500
This type of copper cable allows computers to communicate with other devices on a network.
What is twisted- pair wire?
500
Software that interacts with hardware and the user.
What is an Operating System?
500
A group of logically related fi les that stores data and
the associations among them.
What is a database?
500
Typically a password, known only to the attacker,
that allows the attacker to access the system without having to go through any security procedures.
What is a back door?
500
The system administered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (ICANN) that assigns names to each site on the Internet.