Computer Quiz 1

USB -

(Universal serial bus) the preferred way to connect peripheral devices.

Flash Drive

: Portable storage device that plugs into the USB port.

Drive -

A generic term used to distinguish the equipment that serves as storage

Printer

An output device that puts text or images on paper.

Scanner

Captures images from photographs, posters, and other sources to a computer screen.?

Utility Software -

Category of software that includes programs designed to optimize your computers performance.

CPU

Central Prosessing Unit-The "Brains" of a Computer

CD

Compact Disk, storage space for computer data. ROM Read only; R Recordable; RW Rewriteable

Data

Refers to symbols that represent facts, objects, and ideas.

Program (application)

Set of instructions that you use to tell the computer what to do.

Monitor

The TV thing you look at. Output device; displays text and images. Measured diagonally, across the screen.?

Computer

The box with the on/off switch and slots to put disks in and contains a microprocessor as its central processor. Don't point to your monitor and say, "That's my computer." It's not.?

Mouse

The little oblong thing with buttons that you click, and plugs in the back of the computer. It is an input device. (can be a stylus or even your finger these days)

Keyboard

The thing you type on. The main input device for data.?

Click

To tap one of the mouse buttons. If clicking doesn't work, try 2 quick taps (double- click).

Hang-

When a computer does not respond to keyboard commands.

Shareware -

a copyrighted software marketed under a try before you buy policy.

Copyright -

a form of legal protection that grants the author of an original work exclusive rights.

Software license -

a legal contract that defines the ways in which you may use a computer program.

Peripheral Device -

any input or output component that connects to a computers system.

Freeware -

copyrighted software that is available for free.

Ink jet printer -

has a nozzle-like print head that sprays ink onto paper to form characters/letters/numbers/pictures etc

Defragmentation Utility -

helps your hard disk operate more efficiently. It rearranges information so that they are easily accessible.

Surge Strip(surge protector)

monitor the flow of power and attempts to filter out overloads.

LCD (liquid crystal display)

monitors that produces an image by manipulating light within a layer of liquid crystal cells.

CRT (cathode ray tube-old school) -

monitors that uses the same sort of bulky glass tube as a TV.

Laser printer -

uses the same technology as a photocopier to paint dots of light on a light-sensitive drum