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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. 'System that is used to control many 'back office' operations and processing functions such as billing - production - inventory management - and human resources management.'






2. A collection of software programs that have been bundled together as a package.






3. '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.'






4. An expansion card that attached to the motherboard inside the system unit and the enables the computer to produce sounds by providing a connection for the speakers and microphone.






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






6. A fast transfer port.






7. 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.






8. The set of programs that enables a computer's hardware devices and application software to work together; it includes the operating system and utility programs.






9. A type of computing that relates to emotion or deliberately tries to influence emotion.






10. A network name that wireless routers use to identify themselves.






11. 'The time it takes for the hard drive's read/write heads to move over the surface of the disk - between tracks - to the correct track.'






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. 'In a file name - the three letters that follow the user-supplied file name after the dot (.); the extension identifies what kind of family of files the file belongs to - or which application should be used to read the file.'






14. A device (such as a printer or external hard drive) that can be attached directly to a network instead of needing to attach to a computer on the network.






15. The process of installing all the files and programs from the distribution CD to the computer's hard drive.






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






17. 'A Windows utility (found in the Control Panel) that allows the user to create a duplicate copy of all the data on a hard drive (or just the folders and files the user specifies) and copy it to another storage device - such as a DVD or external hard






18. A type of monitor ( or display in a notebook or PDA) that accepts input from a user touching the screen.






19. A device that routes packets of data between two or more networks.






20. The maximum speed at which data can be transmitted between two nodes on a network; usually measured in megabits per second (Mbps). See also data transfer rate.






21. One of the fastest ports available - moving data at 800Mbps.






22. A device such as a monitor - printer - or keyboard that connects to the system unit through ports.






23. An application that is still under development.






24. A type of wireless technology that uses radio waves to transmit data over short distances. Often used to connect peripherals such as printers and keyboards to computers or headsets to cell phones.






25. Programs for editing photographs and other images.






26. A wide area network (WAN) that links users in a specific geographic area (such as within a city or county).






27. The language computers use to process data into information - consisting of only the values 0 and 1.






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






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






30. A list of commands that displays on the screen.






31. A tyoe of audio processing that makes the listner experiance sound as if it were coming in all directions.






32. 'Programs that enable a user to perform various tasks generally required in home - school - and business. Examples include word processing - spreadsheet - presentation - personal information management (PIM) - and database programs.'






33. Programs that perform basic editing tasks on audio files such as cutting dead air space from the beginning or end of a song or cutting a portion from the middle.






34. A program or hardware mechanism that controls which computer is allowed to use the transmission media in a network at a certain time.






35. '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.'






36. The process of restarting the system while it's powered on.






37. '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.'






38. A single point that creates the images on a computer monitor. Pixels are illuminated by an electron beam that passes rapidly back and forth across the back of the screen so that the pixels appear to glow continuously.






39. The actual speed of data transfer that is achieved. It is usually less than the data transfer rate and is measured in megabits per second (Mbps).






40. A small program that groups a series of commands to run as a single command.






41. 'Program code made publicly available for free; it can be copied - distributed - or changed without the stringent copyright protections of proprietary software products.'






42. A card installed in a system that connects with wireless access points on the network.






43. 'The process of identifying a computer user - based on a login or username and password. The computer system determines whether the computer user is authorized and what level of access is to be granted on the network.'






44. A signal that tells the operating system that it is in need of immediate attention.






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






46. Custom software application that is owned and controlled by the company that created it.






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






48. 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.






49. A specially designed computer that can perform comples calculations extremely rapidly; used in situations in which complex models requiring intensive mathmatical calcualtions are needed (such as weather forecasting or atomic energy research).






50. The most commonly used wired Ethernet standard deployed in devices designed for home networks which provides bandwidth of up to 1 Gbps.