Study computer components for your IT exam. This guide covers the 4 components all computers have: CPU, memory, storage, and input/output devices.
Q: What are the four components that all computers have in common?
Answer: input, storage, processing, output
Q: What is a dingbat?
Answer: special characters like stars, hands, arrows, and geometric shapes you can use to decorate a document
Q: what is a handshake?
Answer: a set of sequels and signs that helps the modems determine how they will exchange information
Q: what is a home page?
Answer: an introductory screen on the web, used to welcome visitors
Q: what handles can you not hold in your hand?
Answer: little squares at the edge and corners of a selected graphic on your screen
Q: what was ENIAC?
Answer: the worlds first general purpose computer
Q: what contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?
Answer: she did work on the early mechanical general purpose computer
Q: what do they call the suit that clean room technicians must wear while making computer chips and why is it necessary?
Answer: bunny suits: so it does not shock or electrocute them
Q: what does modem stand for?
Answer: modulator-demodulator
Q: What does a modem do?
Answer: converts a digital signal from a computer into an analog signal, so that can be transferred down a telephone line
Q: how many nibbles are in a byte?
Answer: 2
Q: what is a terabyte?
Answer: a unit of information equal to one million bytes
Q: what have USB’s replaced?
Answer: floppy disk
Q: What is a USB Flash drive considered as?
Answer: a small external flash drive that can be used with any computer that has a USB port
Q: what did Douglass Elbert invent?
Answer: the computer mouse
Q: what is a computer virus?
Answer: a piece of code that gets in your computer that can destroy data and infects a computer
Q: names 3 peripherals
Answer: mouse, keyboard, and monitor
Q: what does GUI mean?
Answer: graphical user interface
Q: what is an advantage of a Dvorak keyboard?
Answer: it increases typing speed
Q: How did Marcian Hoff change computers?
Answer: he invented the microprocessor
Q: do all computers have a microprocessor?
Answer: yes
Q: what is a gigaflop?
Answer: a unit of computing speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second
Q: what is our school domain web address ?
Answer: msd3.org
Q: what is a lisa and when did she come out?
Answer: a desktop computer developed by apple: Jan. 19, 1983
Q: who coined the term “information superhighway” ?
Answer: vice president Al Gore
Q: what cam first, email or the world wide web? and when?
Answer: Email; 1973
Q: who founded Facebook and in what year?
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg in 2004
Q: what year was Hewlett Packard found?
Answer: 1939
Q: what year was apple found?
Answer: 1976
Q: what year was Microsoft found?
Answer: 1975
Q: what year was IBM found?
Answer: 1911
Q: what year was Dell found?
Answer: 1984