Exam 4: Hardware for Educators

____________________ is the process of capturing or downloading full-motion images and storing them on a computer's storage medium.

The speed at which a processor executes instructions is called ____________________.

An ExpressCard module adds ____ capabilities to computers.

Most computers are sold with DVD drives that will read ____.

Many of the electronic components in the system unit reside on a circuit board called the microprocessor as shown in the accompanying figure.

A ____ is equal to approximately 1 million bytes.

To press and release a mouse button twice without moving the mouse is called ____.

A(n) ____________________ takes the image that displays on a computer screen and projects it onto a large screen so that an audience can see the image clearly.

A joystick lever usually includes buttons called ____ that can be pressed to activate certain events.

Critical Thinking Case 4-1 You are on a committee to suggest new technology for classrooms. You have been asked for opinions about the storage devices. The committee would like a portable device that a teacher could use to save documents they are working on and take them back and forth from home to school. Which device will you recommend?

In a bit, 0 is used to represent the electronic state of off (presence of an electronic charge), and 1 is used to represent the electronic state of on (absence of an electronic charge).

A(n) ____________________ is the physical material on which data, instructions, and information are stored.

A(n) ____________________ usually consists of several inflexible, circular disks, called platters.

Laser printers usually use individual sheets of paper stored in a removable tray that slides into the printer case.

Each dot, called a ____ is a single point in an electronic image.

Storage devices can function as sources of ____.

All of the following are commonly used output devices EXCEPT ____.

A(n) ____ stores data on a thin microprocessor embedded in the card.

Like an older television set, the core of some monitors is a large glass tube called a(n) ____.