Concepts
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| Hardware | show 🗑
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| Tablet computer | show 🗑
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| Output devices? | show 🗑
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| show | "Pixel" is short for "Picture Element." Small little dots are make up the images on computer displays.
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| Bits | show 🗑
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| show | Point of connection to a network
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| show | A computer's memory and storage is measured in bytes. MB=million bytes, GB=billion bytes, TB=trillion bytes)
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| show | A motherboard contains the computer's circuitry and components CPU, Operating System, RAM, ROM, etc.
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| show | USB standardizes the connection of computer peripherals, such as keyboards, pointing devices, digital cameras, printers, portable media players, disk drives and network adapters to personal computers.
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| Flash drives | show 🗑
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| show | Storage devices that are totally inclosed in the computer: hard drives, CDs, DVD's Blue ray disks.
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| show | Blu-ray Discs are optical, high density storage designed to hold much more and replace the DVD format.
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| Magnetic vs optical storage | show 🗑
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| show | System software is computer software designed to operate and control the computer hardware and to provide a platform for running application software. Its utility software helps analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer.
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| show | Application software is designed to help the user perform specific tasks. Examples include office suites like word processing, spreadsheets, databases; accounting software, graphics software and media players.
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| Defragmentation | show 🗑
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| show | Freeware: Totally free
Shareware: Temporarily free, with request to donate money
Commercial: available for purchase
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| show | A small text file that contains a unique ID tag, placed on the user's computer by a website. Websites can access your cookies unless you have the option turned off. They can be useful.
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| Broadband connection | show 🗑
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| Fiber optic | show 🗑
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| show | Satellite service mainly for people who live in remote areas where DSL and cable are not available. Does NOT rely on copper wiring and is NOT limited by distance. Uses a dish. May be interrupted by high buildings, tall tress, and mountains.
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| Cable | show 🗑
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| show | DSL signals are sent along ordinary telephone lines.
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| Wi-Fi | show 🗑
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| show | Instant Messaging: a form of communication over the Internet, that offers an instantaneous transmission of text-based messages from sender to receiver.
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| Social networking | show 🗑
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| show | Voice is transmitted digitally
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| show | A type of malware (malicious software) installed on computers that tracks internet activity - collects information about users without their knowledge.
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| Phishing | show 🗑
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| Wikis | show 🗑
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| Virus | show 🗑
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| Hacking | show 🗑
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| Firewall | show 🗑
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| show | Small physical devices that join multiple networks together.
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| NIC | show 🗑
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| show | Wireless Access Point - a device that provides a location for wireless units to connect to a wired network using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or related standards. The WAP usually connects to a router (via a wired network) if it's a standalone device.
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| Wired network | show 🗑
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| blog | show 🗑
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| show | A wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short-wavelength radio transmissions)
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| RAM | show 🗑
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| show | ROM (Read only memory) is nonvolatile memory that contains the initial program running when the computer starts.
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| show | Data (text, numbers, graphics, video, and sound)is manipulated and converted to information during the process function of the information processing cycle.
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| Server | show 🗑
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| show | A computer that enables large organizations to simultaneously use institutional data and resources.
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| System unit | show 🗑
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| Ports | show 🗑
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| Removable circuit boards | show 🗑
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| show | Mouse on-screen representation. (Double click to open, or can be used to select and drag.
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| Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) | show 🗑
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| Resolution | show 🗑
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| Laser printer | show 🗑
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| Permanent memory | show 🗑
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| Windows | show 🗑
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| Mac OS versions | show 🗑
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| show | Open source operating system
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| Trojan Horse | show 🗑
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| Intranet | show 🗑
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| Peer to peer network | show 🗑
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| show | A network topology that connects all nodes to a single, central high-speed line.
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| show | Used to perform fast, accurate calculations, convert data into charts, organize and sort lists, and perform preexisting formulas.
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| show | Software used to locate, display, and navigate websites
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| show | Enables you to create, edit, format, print, and save letters, memos, reports, and others documents
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| show | Connects laptops to a full size keyboard or monitor
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| show | Most fast and most expensive and powerful computer.
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| Scanner | show 🗑
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| show | Small computers built into other devices such as automobiles, microwaves ovens, and medical equipment.
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| show | Correct Quiz answer - personal computer
(Wrong answers: laptop, modem, table)
Problem: true, also, for laptops and tablets.
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| Quiz Item: A _____ is a thin, lightweight mobile computer with a screen in its lid and a keyboard in its base. | show 🗑
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| show | Correct Quiz answer - cloud storage
(Wrong answers: optical disc storage, smartphone storage, flash drive storage)
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| show | Correct Quiz answer - slide out keyboard
(Wrong answers: stylus, mouse, slide out track)
Problem: some smartphones may also have a stylus)Quiz
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| Quiz Item: Which of the following is an input device? (multiple) | show 🗑
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| show | Correct Quiz answer - home user
Fill in blank
Problem: Frequently referred to as "user."
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| Quiz item: A(n) _____ is a real-time typed conversation among two or more people on a comuter or mobile device connected to a network | show 🗑
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| show | Operating system
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| Enables users with computers and mobile devices to connect to the Internet wirelessly. | show 🗑
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| A personal computer designed to be in a stationary location. | show 🗑
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| The World Wide Web, email, VOIP and FTP are examploes of _____. | show 🗑
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