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| What is the primary reason that today's computers are general-purpose tools, not specialized devices? |
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| What type of computer is being used when a bank teller uses a keyboard and a screen that most likely does not have processing power at that location? |
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| What is a computer that provides software and other resources to multiple computers over a network? |
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| Which came first, the World Wide Web (WWW) or the Internet? |
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| The Internet was created in the 1960s, and the WWW was created in the 1990s. |
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| When travel agents throughout the country can make reservations using the same mainframe computer with the same information at the same time, what technique are they using? |
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Before microcomputers (PCs) because the norm, most information processing took place on what type of computers?
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What type of computer is generally used for power users that perform calculation intensive work such as simulations and animations?
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| Which of the following is NOT true about laptop computers? |
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| They cannot be connected to a PC. |
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| What is another name for the silicon chip? |
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Which of the following is NOT a guideline for making ethical decisions regarding technology?
-Think Scenarios
- Remember the Golden Rule
-It's okay if it's legal
-Know the rules and the laws |
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A paradigm shift occurred when we went from the industrial age to the information age.
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Handheld computers cannot share information with laptop or desktop computers.
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Firmware is a program that has been physically etched onto a chip.
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Moore's Law, which predicts that the power of the CPU will double about every 18 months, used to be accurate but is no longer valid.
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The digital divide describes the difference between information technology "haves" and "have nots."
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Artificial intelligence is the branch of computer science that explores the use of computers in tasks such as speech recognition.
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A spreadsheet is an example of an application program.
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One social implication of computer technology is that it will eliminate privacy problems.
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The use of biodigital technology allows people to use computer chips to overcome disabilities.
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A microprocessor contains all the transistors needed to perform processing in modern computers.
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| computer used by large organizations |
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PDA
(Personal Digital Assistant) |
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| A computer especially designed to provide software and other resources to other computers over a network. |
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| fastest, most powerful computer |
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| just a monitor and keyboard |
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| A high-end desktop computer with massive computing power, though less expensive than a minicomputer. Workstations are the most powerful of the desktop computers. |
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| An electronic device that performs the same function as the vacuum tube by transferring electricity across a tiny resistor. |
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a single silicon chip containing all of a computer's computational components |
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| nickname for California's San Jose area that is home to many manufacturing companies |
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| A small, powerful, relatively low-cost microcomputer. |
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| The prediction made in 1965 by Gordon Moore that the power of a silicon chip of the same price would double about every 18 months for at least two decades. |
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| A computer that is embedded into a consumer product, such as a wristwatch or game machine, to enhance those products. Also used to control hardware devices. |
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A program, usually for special-purpose computers, stored on a ROM chip so it cannot be altered.
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A personal computer designed to be set up on a desk or table and used in that place for an extended period of time.
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| Laptop or Notebook Computers |
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| A flat-screen, battery-powered portable computer that you can rest on your lap. |
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| An external device, such as a keyboard or monitor, connected via cables to the system central processing unit. |
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| A computer system that links two or more computers. |
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| A global interconnected network of thousands of networks linking academic, research, government, and commercial institutions, and other organizations and individuals. Also known as the Net. |
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Part of the Internet, a collec tion of multimedia documents created by organizations and users world wide. Documents are linked in a hypertext Web that allows users to explore them with simple mouse clicks.
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| programs that serve as navigable windows into the Web. |
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A Web connection to another document or site, like the many that loosely tie together millions of Web pages.
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| Application Programs or Applications |
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| are the software tools that transforms general-purpose computers into special-purpose tools useful for meeting particular needs. |
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| accept input from the outside world |
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| send information to the outside world. |
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Microprocessor
also known as the processor or the central processing unit (CPU) |
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the computer's "brain".
The ___ processes information, performs arithmetic calculations and makes basic decisions by comparing information values. |
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| meaning it can be made up of countable units, digits, so it can be subdivided. |
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| smallest unit of information a computer can process. Can have two values: 0 or 1. |
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| A logical group of eight bits, also referred to as an octet. |
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| a system that denotes all numbers with combinations of two digits. |
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| a coding scheme that supports more than 100,000 unique characters |
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Kilobyte (KB)
Megabyte (MB)
Gigabyte (GB)
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-1,000 bytes of information
-1,000 KB or 1 million bytes of information
-1,000 MB or 1 billion bytes of information
-1 million MB or 1 trillion bytes of information
-1,024 TB or 1 quadrillion bytes of information |
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| The circuit board that contains a computer's CPU |
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| Able to run software written for older CPUs. Also, when referring to a software program, able to read and write files compatible with older versions of the program. |
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| The timing device that produces electrical pulses to synchronize the computer's operations. |
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| units in which a computer's clock speed is measured. |
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| Architecture of the processor |
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| the design that determines how individual components of the CPU are put together on the chip. |
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| putting multiple CPU's, which run simultaneously, on a single chip |
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| computer can only read information from it; it can never write any new information on it. |
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CMOS
(complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) |
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| special low-energy kind of RAM that can store small amounts of data for long period of time on battery power. |
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| RAM or random-access-memory |
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| store programs instructions and data temporarily |
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Group of wires on a circuit board in which information travels through. |
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| open areas in the system box for disk drives and other devices |
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| designed to transmit data back and forth between computers and peripherals. |
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