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Technology In Action - 2

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. About a billion bytes






2. Comprises computing devices - softeare - or peripherals that use techniques - parts - and methods from an earlier time that are no longer popular.






3. A UTP cable type that provides more than 1 GB of throughput.






4. 'Small blocks of memory - located directly on and next to the central processing unit (CPU) chip - that act as holding places for recently or frequently used instructions or data that the CPU accesses the most. When these instructions or data are sto






5. A hardware device that uses lasers or light to read from - and maybe even write to - CDs - DVDs - or Blu-ray discs.






6. A device that amplifies your wireless signal to get it out to parts of your home that are experiencing poor connectivity.






7. A heavily secured server located on a special perimeter network between a company's secure internal network and its firewall.






8. 1 -099 -511 -627 -776 bytes or 2^40 bytes( approximately 1 trillion bytes).






9. 'The portion of a company's intranet that is used to share business information with business partners such as vendors - suppliers - and customers.'






10. 'Someone who has training in computer and peripheral maintenance and repair - network design - and the installation of network software; installs new equipment - configures computers for users - repairs equipment - and assigns network access to users






11. A server that processes and delivers incoming and outgoing e-mail.






12. A drive that plugs into a universal serial bus(USB) port on a computer and stores data digitally. Also called USB drive - jump drive - or thumb drive.






13. 'A special signal sent to all network nodes - alerting them that a data collision has occurred.'






14. 'The process that occurs after the read/write head of the hard drive locates the correct track - and then waits for the correct sector to spin to the read/write head.'






15. 'The top level of the filing structure in a computer system. In Windows computers - the root directory of the hard drive is represented as C:.'






16. A small segment of data that is bundled for sending over transmission media. Each packet contains the address of the computer or peripheral device to which it is being sent.






17. 'An operating system originally conceived in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of AT&T's Bell Labs. In 1974 - the UNIX code was rewritten in the standard programming language C. Today there are various commercial versions of UNIX.'






18. An interface through which external devices are connected to the computer.






19. The process by which great amounts of data are analyzed and investigates to spot significant patterns or trends within the data that would otherwise not be obvious.






20. A specially designed computer chip that resides inside another device - such as a car. These self-contained computer devices have their own programming and typically neither recieve input from users nor interact with other systems.






21. When two computers send data at the same time and the sets of data collide somewhere in the media.






22. A desktop system unit that houses the computer's processor -memory - and monitor in a single unit.






23. A cable that transmits data at close to the speed of light along glass or plastic fibers.






24. 'Programs that include image - video - and audio editing software - animation software - and other specialty software required to produce computer games - animations - and movies.'






25. Anyone who unlawfully breaks into a computer system (whether an individual computer or a network).






26. A software program or hardware device designed to prevent unauthorized access to computers or networks.






27. An application that is still under development.






28. 'A type of network design in which users are not responsible for creating their own data backups or providing security for their computers; instead - those tasks are handled by a centralized server - software - and a system administrator.'






29. A business program used for storing sales and client contact information in one central database.






30. A network device that is used to send data between two different local area networks (LANs) or two segments of the same LAN.






31. 'A device on a network such as a router - hub - and switch that moves data signals around the network.'






32. A small camera that sits on top of a computer monitor (connected to the computer by a cable) or is built into a notebook computer and is usually used to transfer live video.






33. 'Allows you to read flash memory cards such as CompactFlash - Memory Sticks - and Secure Digital.'






34. 'A wireless standard established in 1997 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; also known as WiFi (short for Wireless Fidelity) - it enables wireless network devices to work seamlessly with other networks and devices.'






35. A notebook computer designed specifically to work with handwriting recognition technology.






36. The first part of the label applied to a file; it is generally the name a user assigns to the file when saving it.






37. 'A method of optical storage for digital data - developed for storing high-definition media. It has the largest storage capacity of all optical storage options.'






38. A tag that looks like a sticker or label - is attached to a batch of merchandise - and contains a microchip that holds a unique sequence of numbers used to identify the product to which it is attached.






39. 'A device designed to store media - share media across the network - and back up files on computers connected to a home network.'






40. A type of audio processing that makes the listener experience sound as if it were coming from all directions.






41. 'The mechanism that retrieves (reads) and records (writes) the magnetic data to and from a data disk. They move from the outer edge of the spinning platters to the center - up to 50 times per second.'






42. A computer running a specialized operating system that enables it to host Web pages (and other information) and provide requested Web pages to clients.






43. The set of computer programs or instructions that tells the computer what to do and enables it to perform different tasks.






44. A folder on a Windows desktop in which deleted files from the hard drive are held until permanently purged from the system.






45. An application program for creating dynamic slide shows such as Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple Keynote.






46. RAM that is included as part of a video card.






47. A cable that transmits data at close to the speed of light along glass or plastic fibers.






48. A server that keeps track of who is logging on to the network and which services on the network are available to each user.






49. A special data packet that allows Data to flows from device to device in one direction only.






50. A type of technology used to transmit video signals; used on newer LCD monitors - as well as other multimedia devices such as televisions - DVD players - and projectors.