Exam 6: Essential Computer Concepts

A(n)____________________ is a display that while showing you the output,allows you to touch it with your finger or a stylus to input commands.

Sending an e-mail message to customers or potential customers of a legitimate website asking them to click a link that leads to a spoofed site is known as ____.

Spreadsheet software creates a ____,composed of a grid of columns and rows.

Linda and her mom want to start a company selling homemade brownies to large supermarket chains.To get started,they have created an office in the apartment above their garage.Their first goal is to network their two computers together as well as establish an Internet connection.Finally,they need to purchase a new printer for creating invoices and marketing materials.Linda has pictures on her flash drive of the types of brownies for sale.To copy the pictures to her computer,she plugs the flash drive into her ____ port.

Operating environments provide a textual user interface (TUI)that acts as a liaison between the user and all of the computer's hardware and software.

____ are instructions to a computer on how to process data.

Trojan horses,spyware,and worms are all forms of ____.

The term cloud computing means that data,applications,and even resources are stored on servers accessed over the Internet rather than on users' computers._________________________

Flash memory is similar to ROM except that it can be written to more than once.

RAM is memory that temporarily holds programs and data while a computer is on._________________________

A firewall can be either hardware or software.

Linda and her mom want to start a company selling homemade brownies to large supermarket chains.To get started,they have created an office in the apartment above their garage.Their first goal is to network their two computers together as well as establish an Internet connection.Finally,they need to purchase a new printer for creating invoices and marketing materials.Linda wants to research other companies selling similar products.She searches the Internet by first launching her ____.

Of the various kinds of USB ports,USB 2.5 ports are able to transmit data the fastest._________________________

A keyboard and mouse connect to a computer via either PS/2 ports or ____ ports.

In common usage,the term "PC" refers to computers that ____.

A ____ connects devices on a network so all the devices can access network components.

____ is/are the intangible components of a computer system.

A monitor is a(n)____ device.

A(n)____ stores data as a trail of tiny pits or dark spots on its surface.

____________________ is the largest WAN in the world.