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What 3 things does a computer do? Input, Processing, Output 100
What is the largest circuit board in the PC? Motherboard 200
What letter represents the diskette drive of the computer and what letter represents the hard drive? A and C 300
What does RAM stand for? Random Access Memory 400
Name 4 computer hardware components Monitor, mouse, keyboard, hard disk, diskette drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, modem, printer, scanner, speaker, CPU, motherboard, power supply, bus & expansion slots 500
What does CPU stand for and what is it often called? Central Processing Unit The “brain” of the computer 600
It is lost. 100 What happens to a document in RAM when the power is turned off?
Name two common input devices. Keyboard, mouse, scanner, touch screen, CD-ROM drive 200
Name two types of printers. laser inkjet plotter 300
Name four mouse functions. point click double click drag right click right drag scroll 400
How is the speed of a computer measured? megahertz or gigahertz 500
What is the difference between gigabyte and gigahertz? Gigabyte measures storage. Gigahertz measures speed. 600
What Operating System Software do we have in our lab? Windows XP 100
What do Network Administrators do? They ensure that a company’s network operates efficiently. 200
What do Help Desk Professionals do? They provide help to users of applications. 300
What do Web site Designers and Programmers do? They decide what websites will look like and write the code to create them. 400
What is software? Instructions that tell your computer what to do 500
What are the two types of software? Operating System Software and Application Software 600
What type of computer would a large business use to do huge numbers of relatively simple computations. mainframe 100
What category of computer do we have in our lab? microcomputer 200
What category of computer is the fastest problem solver? supercomputer 300
What kind of computer is used by more that one person and is now called a workstation and server. minicomputer 400
What is the most commonly used microcomputer called? personal computer 500
Name the 4 categories of computers from largest to smallest: Supercomputer Mainframe Minicomputer Microcomputer 600
Personal computers operate through a number of on/off switches. What are they called? binary digits or bits 100
What is a string of 8 bits called? byte 200
What does a zero in binary code represent? A switch that is off 300
How many bytes are in a Kilobyte? 1 thousand 400
How many bytes are in a Gigabyte? 1 billion 500
What term would you use for a million bytes? Megabyte 600