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Technology In Action - 2

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A tyoe of audio processing that makes the listner experiance sound as if it were coming in all directions.






2. A concentric circle that serves as a storage area on a hard drive platter.






3. A design in newer routers that provides for faster wireless data transmission by utilizing more than one antenna to transmit and receive data.






4. '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.'






5. A step-by-step guide that walks you through the necessary steps to complete a complicated task.






6. A port that can connect a wide variety of peripherial devices to the computer - including keyboards - printers - mice - smartphones - PDAs - flash drives - and digital cameras.






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






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






9. 'Software that handles requests for information - Internet access - and the use of peripherals for the rest of the network nodes.'






10. '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.'






11. A server that manages all client-requested printing jobs for all printers on the network.






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






13. 'In Windows 7 - a folder that is used to display files from different locations as if they were all saved in a single folder - regardless of where they are actually stored in the file hierarchy.'






14. 1 -099 -511 -627 -776 bytes or 2^40 bytes( approximately 1 trillion bytes).






15. BD-ROM is defined as BluRay Disc Read Only Memory. BD-ROM is an optical disc storage media format for high-definition video and data storage.






16. Connects the processor (CPU) in your computer to the system memory and allows data to your processor at a faster speed.






17. An expansion card that provides the computer with a connection to the internet via conventional phone lines.






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






19. '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.'






20. 'The computer's temporary storage space or short-term memory. It is located in a set of chips on the system unit's motherboard - and its capacity is measured in megabytes or gigabytes.'






21. 'In a wireless network - a device that translates the electronic data that needs to be sent along the network into radio waves and then broadcasts these radio waves to other network nodes.'






22. 'A group of two or more computers (or nodes) that are configured to share information and resources such as printers - files - and databases.'






23. The radio waves or cable that transport data on a network.






24. A keyboard that is distinguished by the first six letters on the top-left row of alphabetic keys on the keyboard.






25. A method of optical storage for digital data; originally developed for storing digital audio.






26. The set of techniques used in processing and retrieving information.






27. The instructions programmers write in a higher-level language.






28. '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






29. The process of installing only those features of a software program that a user wants on the hard drive.






30. DVD format in which data can only be read and not written.






31. The pre-installed software (often trial versions) on a new computer.






32. A network in which the nodes are located within a small geographic area.






33. 'A complete processing section from a CPU - embedded into one physical chip.'






34. The access method that ring networks use to avoid data collisions.






35. Measured in degrees - this tells how far you can move to the side of (or above or below) the monitor before the image quality degrades to unacceptable levels.






36. A power-management mode that saves the current state of the current system to the computer's hard drive.






37. 'A specialized logic chip that is dedicated to quickly displaying and calculating visual data such as shadows - textures - and luminosity.'






38. Software that facilitates the communication between a device and the operating system.






39. A special circuit board in the system unit that contains the central processeing unit (CPU) - the memory (RAM) chips - and the slots available for expansion cards; all of the other boards (video cards - sound cards - and so on) connect to it to recie






40. A device that uses some unique characteristic of human biology to identify authorized users.






41. A computer that requests information from a server in a client/server network (such as your computer when you are connected to the Internet).






42. '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.'






43. One of three competing technologies for rewritable DVDs.






44. A measurement used in comparing software and hardware performance. Benchmarks are created using software applications that are specifically designed to push the limits of computer performance.






45. The design of a computer network; includes both physical and logical design.






46. '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.'






47. A large - expensive computer that supports hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously and executes many different programs at the same time.






48. 'An application program - such as Microsoft Project - that helps project managers generate charts and tables used to manage aspects of a project.'






49. A block of code in the operating system that software applications need to interact with.






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