Jeopardy Computer Technology Vocabulary 2 Template By Carl Lyman © September 2001

Jeopardy Operating Systems 1 Operating Systems 2 Viruses Networking / Internet Disk Information

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Operating Systems 1 $100 A system of programs that perform a variety of technical operations, providing an additional layer of insulation between the user and the bits-and-bytes world of computer hardware.

Operating Systems 1 $100 Operating system software

Operating Systems 1 $200 Concurrent processing for personal computers. The user can issue a command that initiates a process and continue working with other applications white the computer follows through on the command.

Operating Systems 1 $200 Multitasking

Operating Systems 1 $300 A user interface based on graphical displays. With a mouse, the user points to icons that represent files, folders, and disks. Documents are displayed in windows. The user selects commands from menus.

Operating Systems 1 $300 GUI (Graphical User Interface)

Operating Systems 1 $400 Software tool that allows a computer to be used for specific purposes.

Operating Systems 1 $400 Application software or program

Operating Systems 1 $500 A unit of measurement for a computer’s clock speed; millions of clock cycles per second.

Operating Systems 1 $500 MHz (megahertz)

Operating Systems 2 $100 The combination of hardware and operating system software upon which application software is built.

Operating Systems 2 $100 Platform

Operating Systems 2 $200 In a graphical user interface, a picture that represents a file, folder, or disk.

Operating Systems 2 $200 Icons

Operating Systems 2 $300 An on-screen list of command choices

Operating Systems 2 $300 Menus

Operating Systems 2 $400 A container for files and other folders; also called a directory.

Operating Systems 2 $400 Folder

Operating Systems 2 $500 Memory that stores program instructions and data temporarily.

Operating Systems 2 $500 RAM (Read Access Memory)

Viruses $100 Software that spreads from program to program or from disk to disk, and uses each infected program or disk to make more copies to itself. A form of software sabotage.

Viruses $100 Virus

Viruses $200 A virus that is transmitted through macros embedded in documents and usually spread via .

Viruses $200 Macro virus

Viruses $300 A program that performs a useful task while at the same time carrying out some secret destructive act. A form of software sabotage.

Viruses $300 Trojan Horse

Viruses $400 Programs that use computer hosts to reproduce themselves. These programs travel independently over computer networks, seeking out uninfected workstations to occupy. A form of software sabotage.

Viruses $400 Worm

Viruses $500 A program designed to attack in response to a particular event or sequence of events. A type of software sabotage.

Viruses $500 Logic bomb

Networking / Internet $100 A way to send formatted word processor documents, pictures, and other multimedia files via .

Networking / Internet $100 Attachments

Networking / Internet $200 In a LAN, a computer used as a storehouse for software and data that are shared by several users.

Networking / Internet $200 File server

Networking / Internet $300 A network in which the computers are close to each other, usually in the same building. Typically includes a collection of computers and peripherals; each computer and shared peripheral is an individual node on the network.

Networking / Internet $300 LAN Intranetwork

Networking / Internet $400 A network that extends over a long distance. Each network site is a node on the network. The Internet is an example

Networking / Internet $400 WAN Internetwork

Networking / Internet $500 An Internet address; a string of four numbers separated by periods, included with every packet of information that traverses the Internet.

Networking / Internet $500 IP address

Disk Information $100 Beams that read and write bits of information on the disk surface of CD’s

Disk Information $100 Laser

Disk Information $200 A means of making sure no more information can be added or deleted from a diskette

Disk Information $200 Write-protected

Disk Information $300 Lines and sectors on a medium of storage so that information can be written upon it.

Disk Information $300 Formatted

Disk Information $400 A thicker version of a standard diskette. Can hold up to 250 MB

Disk Information $400 Zip disk

Disk Information $500 Memory that includes permanent information only. The computer can only read information from it; it can never write any new information on it.

Disk Information $500 ROM (Read Only Memory)