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| AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION |
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| RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY-CHIPS ON CARDS THAT PLUG INTO MOTHERBOARD |
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| READ ONLY MEMORY-CHIP ON THE MOTHERBOARD PRE-RECORDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS- ROM NEVER CHANGES AND REMAINS INTACT EVEN WHEN YOU POWER OFF THE COMPUTER |
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| SYNCHRONOUS DYNAMIC RANDOMM ACCESS MEMORY-SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE PROCESSOR TO ALLOW FASTER ACCESS TO ITS CONTENTS |
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| COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMI CONDUCTOR-CHIP ON THE MOTHERBOARD THAT IS ACTIVATED DURING BOOT PROCESS-CHANGES EVERYTIME YOU ADD OR REMOVE HARDWARE-OFTEN CALLED SEMI-PERMANENT MEMORY |
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| BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT SYSATEM-TELLS COMPUTER HOW TO INTIALIZE THE MOTHERBOARD, HOW TO RECOGNIZE DEVICES AND START UP |
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| WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK |
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| OBJECT LINKING AND EMBEDDING |
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| ELECTRONIC DEVICE THAT ACCEPTS INFORMATION AND STORES IT FOR LATER |
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| LAPTOP, DESKTOP, TABLET, NETBOOK |
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| USED BY ONE PERSON, GETS POWER FROM A OUTLET |
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| PORTABLE, SMALL, LIGHTWEIGHT COMPUTER RUNS ON BATTERY OR OUTLET |
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| PORTABLE, SCREEN HAS A SCREEN YOU CAN WRITE ON WITH A STYLUS |
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| SUBNOTEBOOK/ULTRA PORTABLE PC/ MINI NETBOOK |
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| SMALL, LIGHTWEIGHT, DESIGNED TO CHECK EMAIL OR ACCESS THE INTERNET |
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| NO KEYBOARD, NO MOUSE, HAS TOUCH SCREEN AND STYLUS |
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| COMPUTER THAT FITS IN YOUR HAND, LIKE A PHONE |
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| USED BY A LARGE COMPANY TO MAMNGE LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA |
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| LARGEST, FASTEST COMPUTER, HIGH VOLUME DATA SUCH AS WEATHER PREDICTION |
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| COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE |
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| PHYSICAL COMPONENTS OF A COMPUTER |
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| INTANGABILE COMPONENTS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM-PROGRAMS AND INSTRUCTIONS A COMPUTER NEEDS TO PREFORM CERTAIN TASKS |
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| CONFIGURATION/ARCHITECTURE |
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| DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A COMPUTER |
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| WORDS, NUMBERS, SOUNDS THAT DESCRIBE EVENTS, THINGS AND IDEAS |
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| A CIRCUT BOARDS THAT CONTAINS PROCESSING HARDWARE AND PROCESSING TASKS OCCUR HERE |
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| MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF PROCESSING HARDWARE ALSO CALLED PROCESSOR OR CPU |
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| (MHz) MILLIONS OF CYCLES PER SECOND |
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| (GHz) BILLIONS OF CYCLES PERSECOND |
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| REFERS TO NUMBER OF BITS, THE SMALLEST UNIT OF INFORMATION ON A COMPUTERTHAT ARE PROCESSED AT ONE TIME (ex)32 BIT PROCESSOR PROCESSES 32 BITS AT A TIME |
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| 2 PROCESSORS ON A SINGLE CHIP, CAN PROCESS UP TO TWICE AS FAST AS A SINLGE PROCESSOR- SINLGE/DUAL/QUAD CORE |
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| REFER TO PROCESSING CAPACITY, STORAGE, AND FILE SIZE |
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| IS ALSO CALLED PROCESSING |
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| INSTRUCTIONS ON A COMPUTER ON HOW TO PROCESS DATA |
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| REMOVEABLE CIRCUT BOARDS THAT RE INSERTED INTO SLOTS ON THE MOTHERBOARDTO EXPAND CAPABILITIES (ex) SOUND CARD |
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| SET OF STORAGE LOCATIONS ON THE MOTHERBOARD |
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| CACHE MEMORY/RAM MEMORY/CPU CACHE |
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| A SPECIAL HIGH SPEED MEMORY CHIP ON THE MOTHERBOARD OR CPU |
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| SPACE ON THE COMPUTERS STORAGE DEVICE THAT SIMULATES ADDITIONAL RAM |
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| SET OF EVENTS THAT OCCURBETWEEN THE MOMENT YOU TURN ON THE COMPUTERAND THE MOMENT YOU BEGIN TO USE IT |
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| STORES DATA AS MAGNATIZED PARTICLES ON A SURFACE |
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| NAMED COLLECTION OF STORED DATA |
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| HIGH SPEED PORT THAT ALLOWS MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS AT THE SAME PORT |
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| A DEVICE THAT CONTROLS TRAFFIC BETWEEN NETWORK COMPONENTS |
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| A DEVICE CONNECTED TO A NETWORK |
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| ACT AS THE CENTRAL STORAGE LOCATION FOR PROGRAMS AND PROVIDES MASS STORAGE FOR MOST OF THE DATA USED ON A NETWORK |
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| ALLOWS DATA TO BE TRANSMITTED AT HIGH SPEEDS |
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| DEVICE THAT CONNECTS YOUR COMPUTER TO A STANDARD TELEPHONE JACK OR TO A CABLE CONNECTION |
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| CONNECTS ONE COMPUTER TO OTHER COMPUTERS AND DEVICES, ENABLING YOU TO SHARE DATA |
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| IS A BROAD TERM THAT DESCRIBES ANY PROGRAM THAT IS INTENDED TO CAUSE HARM OR CONVEY INFORMATION TO OTHERS WITHOUT OWNERS PERMISSION |
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| PROGRAMS DELIBERATELY CONSTRUCTED OF HARFUL PROGRAMS |
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| LARGEST NETWORKIN THE WORLD, CONNECTING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE |
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| USE SHORT-RANGE RADIO WAVES TO CONNECT DEVICES WIRELESSLY TOGETHER |
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| IS LIKE A LOCKED DOOR, PREVENTS COMPUTER ON THE INTERNET FROM ACCESSING YOUR COMPUTER |
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| A SITE THAT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE ORGINAL SITE (SUCH AS A BANK) BUT DOES NOT BELONG TO THE ORIGINAL SITE |
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| SOFTWARE INSTALLED WITH ANOTHER PROGRAM WITH THE OWNERS PERMISSION |
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| PRACTICE OF SENDING EMAIL MESSAGES TO POTENTIAL CUSTOMERSASKING THEM TO CLICK ON A EMAIL LINK |
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| REDIRECTING ACCESS OF A PARTICULAR WEBSITE TO THE HACKERS SPOOFED SITE |
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| OCCURS WHEN YOU COPY AND PAST THE SOURCE DATA IN A NEW FILE |
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| CREATING A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SOURCE AND HAVING IT OPEN A NEW WINDOW |
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| DATA, APPLICATIONS, AND RESOURCES ARE STORED ON SERVERS RATHER THAN ON USER'S COMPUTER |
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| TECHNICAL DETAILS ABOUT EACH HARDWARE COMPONENT |
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| ANY PART OF THE COMPUTER SYSTEM, INCLUDING MEMORY, STORAGE DEVICES, AND THE MICROPROCESSOR, THAT CAN BE USED BY A COMPUTER PROGRAM |
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