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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 type of hard drive that uses much thinner cables - and can transfer data more quickly - than IDE drives.'






2. Numbers - words - pictures - or sounds that represent facts - figures - or ideas.






3. 'A section of a hard drive platter - wedge-shaped from the center of the platter to the edge.'






4. 'The main function of an Internet appliance is easy access to the Internet - social networking sites - e-mail - video - news - and entertainment.'






5. A program that manages the data between a computer's operating system and all the input and output devices attached to the computer; also responsible for loading the operating system (OS) from its permanent location on the hard drive to random access






6. An expansion card that is installed inside a system unit to translate binary data (the 1s and 0s the computer uses) into the images viewed on the monitor.






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






8. The process by which humans or computer software provide organizational structure to a computer's contents.






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






10. '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






11. '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.'






12. A drive that uses the same kind if memory that flash drives use - but can reach data in only a tenth of the time a flash drive requires.






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






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






15. 'The set of programs on a computer that helps a user carry out tasks such as word processing - sending e-mail - balancing a budget - creating presentations - editing photos - taking an online course - and playing games.'






16. A network that uses the Ethernet protocol as the means (or standard) by which the nodes on the network communicate.






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. An interface port that transfers data at 400 Mbps.






19. A device that holds all permanently stored programs and data; can be located inside the system unit or attached to the system unit via a USB port.






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






21. The application of computer systems and techniques to gather potential legal evidence; a law enforcement specialty used to fight high-tech crime.






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






23. Programs designed to provide users with entertainment. Computer games make up the vast majority of entertainment software.






24. A measure of processing speed equal to 1 million hertz.






25. 'A private corporate network that is used exclusively by company employees to facilitate information sharing - database access - group scheduling - videoconferencing - and other employee and customer collaborations.'






26. 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).






27. A self-regulatory body established in 1994 by the Entertainment Software Association that rates computer and video games according to the age appropriateness of content.






28. 'Microsoft operating system that builds upon the security and user interface upgrades that the Windows Vista release provided - and gives users with touch-screen monitors the ability to use touch commands to scroll - resize windows - pan - and zoom.'






29. A condition of excessive paging in which the operating system becomes sluggish.






30. '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.'






31. A method of optical storage for digital data that has greater storage capacity than compact discs.






32. 'The process of looking at a computer's subsystems - what they do - and how they perform to determine whether the computer system has the right hardware components to do what the user ultimately wants it to do.'






33. 'Unlike the command- and menu-driven interfaces used in earlier software - GUIs display graphics and use the point-and-click technology of the mouse and cursor - making them much more user-friendly.'






34. The layout and structure of the network.






35. The width-to-height proportion of a monitor.






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






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






38. A port that uses a traditional telephone signal to connect a computer to the internet.






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






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






41. A port to which a CRT monitor connects.






42. 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).






43. 'In Windows - a snapshot of your entire system's settings used for restoring your system to a prior point in time.'






44. 'An electronic filing system best used for larger and more complicated groups of data that require more than one table and the ability to group - sort - and retrieve data and generate reports.'






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






46. A large printer that uses a computer-controlled pen to produce oversize pictures that require precise continuous lines to be drawn - such as maps and architectural plans.






47. A network that uses public communication pathways (usually the Internet) to provide branch offices or employees who are not at the office with secure access to the company network. VPNs maintain privacy by using secure data communication protocols.






48. A special shelf inside a computer case that is designed to hold storage devices.






49. A type of network in which users are responsible for creating their own data backups and for providing security for their computers.






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