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| What 5 things can computers do? |
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| Information, automation, entertainment, communication, and computation |
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| When you talk about something digital what do it refer to? |
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| Things that can be represented by numbers. |
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| What is a group of 8 bits called? |
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| What things can be stored on a digital device? |
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| numbers, characters, sounds, images, movies, etc. |
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| What is a special purpose computer? |
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| they are designed primarily for one particular function. |
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| What is a computer network? |
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| a telecommunications network that connects two or more computers for data communications. |
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| What is a popular wireless networking standard? |
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| Voice over internet protocol: a popular technology that allows phones to use internet connections. |
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| What is the speed of the human brain? |
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| estimated around 100 trillion operations per second |
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| What data is stored in bits (binary)? |
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bits allow us to represent, store, and manipulate data.
-1's and 0's |
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| What is an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)? |
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| contains the circuitry to carry out the instructions in the processors instruction set. |
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| What does the Front Side Bus consist of? |
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| Electronic pathways between the CUP and RAM |
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| What are clock speeds measured today? |
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| What are the 5 different types on storage? |
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| RAM, Cache, Video RAM, ROM, CMOS |
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| What is the largest type of storage? |
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| What does RAM consist of? |
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| chips grouped on a board called SIMM |
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| What are the capabilities of magnetic tape? |
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| What are the properties of magnetic tape? |
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| What is Flash Memory a form of? |
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| Notebook computers integrate the mouse as a touch-sensitive pad called what? |
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| the set of programs that coordinates the activities of the hardware and various computer programs. |
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| Define Application Software. |
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-provides services for people
-programs written to perform tasks
-word processor, spreadsheets and database |
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| text files created by programmers that is translate into an object code. |
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| Takes in source code and produces output of object code and executable code. |
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| What is Open-Source code? |
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| evolved from the combined contribution of its users |
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| What are Creative Common Licenses? |
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| designed to allow the creators of intellectual property to specify the terms of the license in order to grant certain freedoms to users, while still providing the owner with some control of the property and ability to profit from the distribution of the work. |
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| What kind of users do operating systems support? |
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| -single user, multi user, and multi computer platforms |
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| What 2 things do operating systems have? |
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| a graphic user interface (GUI) and a command prompt access. |
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| Define the Internet Backbone? |
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| the internet backbone consists of the main pathways and connections of the Internet owned primarily by telecom companies. |
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| Who own the many national and international communications networks? |
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| -point of presence: network service providers that allows users to connect to the Internet backbone. |
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| a high speed service provided by cable television providers. supporting 1 to 50 Mbps rates. |
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| a low speed service that uses a phone line. transfer rate a high of 56 kbps per second. |
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| it uses the phone line, but there is no dialing up and users can use the Internet and talk on the phone simultaneously. supporting 1 to 6 mbps. |
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| Hypertext markup language is formatting language used to define the appearance of Web pages. |
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| New and popular standard for describing and classifying data in Web pages and other Web services. |
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| Hypertext Transfer Protocol defines and controls communication between Web server and client (Web browser). |
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| Uniform Resource Locator is the fancy name for a Web address. |
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| What does web-authorizing software do? |
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| It allows the developer to create Web pages using HTML code and a WYSIWYG editor. |
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| What does a web-portal act as? |
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| as the entry point to the web, the first page you open when you begin browsing the web. |
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| What are web logs commonly called? |
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| standards that allow network devices to speak to each other with the same "language" |
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| Define Bandwidth and how it is measured? |
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-the range of signal frequencies that can be sent over a given medium at the same time.
-measured in bits per second. |
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| What are typically 3 transmission cables? |
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| twisted pair copper wire, fiber optic cable, and coaxial cable. |
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| Describe what fiber optic cables consist of? |
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| extremely thin strands of glass or plastic with a sheathing that allows lights of beam to be sent down them. |
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| What does a network switch allow? |
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| it allows users to send information over a network without affecting the speech of others users. |
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| Microwave transmission is a line...? |
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| What is the 2 mobile phone standard and which one is most popular? |
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| - GSM is the most popular global standard and then CDMA is the more popular in the US |
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| Define Local Area Network? (LAN) |
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| it connects computer systems and devices within a common geographic area. |
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| Define Local Area Network? (LAN) |
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| it connects computer systems and devices within a common geographic area. |
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| Define Local Area Network? (LAN) |
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| it connects computer systems and devices within a common geographic area. |
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| Define Metropolitan Area Network? (MAN) |
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| it connects networks within a city or metropolitan-size area into a larger high-speed network. |
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| Define wide area network? |
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| it connects LANs between cities, cross country, and around the world using microwave satellite transmission or telephone lines. |
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| What does analog to digital conversion mean having to do? |
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| converting sound, images, motion, into numbers that can be stored in a computer. |
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| it is a device that electronically produces sounds. |
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| it plays back samples of real sounds. |
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| What is used from the digital images? |
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| bit-mapped or raster images |
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| Name 2 file-sharing peer to peer networks? |
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| What are the capabilities and properties of magnetic tape? |
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| it is used as a sequential access storage medium and the properties are mylar film coated with iron oxide. |
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