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CA Beginning of Year
Beginning of school year review
Question | Answer |
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What is scientific discipline concerned with interactions between humans and workplace? | ergonomics |
What should you do every 15-20 minutes while using a computer? | stretch |
What does RSI stand for? | Repetitive Stress Injury |
How far away from your computer monitor should you be? | An arm's length |
If your workspace is not ergonomically correct for you, then you should ______________ it. | Adapt |
An RSI is easier to _______________ than treat. | prevent |
CPU stands for: | Central Processing Unit |
What is a program that gives the computer instructions? | Software |
What are devices within or attached to the CPU/tower? | Hardware |
What piece of software communicates between software and hardware? | Operating System |
What is used to organize files and programs? | Folder |
What is a piece of work created by using a program? | File |
Pictures, graphs, charts, icons, and clipart are all examples of _____________. | Graphics |
What are smaller boards plug into the motherboard and have a specific purpose, for drives or ports? | expansion cards |
What is the largest circuit board? | motherboard |
What converts electricity to current that works in computer? | power supply |
BIOS stands for? | Basic Input Output System |
RAM is memory that can be read and write information if you tell it to save. What does RAM stand for? | Random Access Memory |
What are places on outside to plug in hardware? | Ports |
ROM is memory that can only be read. What does ROM stand for? | Read Only Memory |
What is thousands of compartments that the memory chips in the computer are divided up into? | Bit |
What is eight bits grouped together? | byte |
What is equal to about 1,000 bytes? | kilobyte |
What is equal to about 1,000,000 bytes? | megabyte |
What is equal to about 1,000,000,000 bytes? | gigabyte |
What can hold 1.44 MB of information? | floppy disk |
External harddrives, jumpdrive, and CDs are all examples of ___________________. (2 words) | storage devices |
What reads information off of storage disks? | disk drive |
What holds data in the computer? | hard drive |
What Microsoft program is used to create slide presentations? | PowerPoint |
What Microsoft program is used to wordprocess? | Word |
What Microsoft program is used to create spreadsheets with data? | Excel |