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Hardware and software Flashcards

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What is hardware?

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Hardware is the general term for the physical components that make up a typical computer system.

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What are some examples of hardware?

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Keyboard
Mouse
Camera
Monitor
Printer
Plotter

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What are some examples of internal hardware devices?

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Motherboard
CPU
RAM
ROM
NIC
Graphics card
Sound card

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What is Motherboard?

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Mother board is a printed circuit board that allows the processor and other computer hardware to communicate, mostly acting as a kind of ‘hub’.

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What is Motherboard?

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Mother board is a printed circuit board that allows the processor and other computer hardware to communicate, mostly acting as a kind of ‘hub’.

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What is RAM?

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RAM is an internal chip which stores any part of the operating system currently in use. It is volatile

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What is CPU?

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CPU has ALU where arithmetic and logical operations are carried out. It also has CU which takes instructions, then decodes and executes them.

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What is ROM?

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ROM is a memory used to store information that needs to be permanent. ROM is non-volatile so the data stored is not lost even after the power is lost.

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What is NIC?

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NIC allows a computer or any other device to be connected to a network, wired or wireless.

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What is a graphics card?

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A graphic card allows the computer to send graphical information to video display devices. A graphic card contains, a processing unit, a memory unit, a cooling mechanism and connections to a display unit.

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What is sound card?

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Sound card is a ability to produce sounds.

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What is HDD?

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HDDs are magnetic in nature and are one of the main methods for storing data.

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What is SSD?

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SSDs are the newer storage system which makes use of SDD technology.

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What is software?

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Software is the general term used for the programs that control the system and process data.

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What are some examples of software data?

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Word processing
Database
Spreadsheet
Video editing
Graphics editing
Apps
Audio editing
CAD
Control and measurement software

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What is system software?

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System software is the software designed to provide a platform for other software to run.

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What is word processing?

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Word processing creates, edits, saves and manipulates texts. It has spell checkers, thesaurus and copy and paste functions. It can translate into a foreign language and import pictures into a structured page format.

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What is spreadsheet?

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Spreadsheets use formulas to carry out calculations. They have the ability to produce graphs, model them and do ‘what if’ calculations.

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What is data base?

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Data base is used to organize, manipulate and analyze any data. It can also carry out and edit queries on DBMS.

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What are apps?

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Apps refer to software which can perform a fairly substantial task.

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What is control and management software?

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It is designed to allow a computer or a microprocessor to interface with sensor.

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What is CAD?

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CAD is a software used to help in the creation, manipulation, modification and analysis of a design.

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What can an audio editing software do?

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It can alter the length and volume of the track, reduce noise and create another version of the sound track.

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What can an video editing software do?

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It allows a user to manipulate videos to produce a new video.

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What can a graphics editing software do?

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It allows bitmap and vector images to be changed.

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What is a compiler?

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A compiler is a computer program that translates a program written in a HLL into machine code. The original program is called source code and the end result is called object code.

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What are linkers?

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A linker is a computer program that takes one or more object files produced by a compiler and combines them into a single program that can be run on computer.

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What is a device driver?

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A device driver is the name given to software that enables one or more hardware devices to communicate with the computer’s operating system.

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What is OS?

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It is a software that is essentially running in the background of the computer system to make the computer user-friendly.

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What are utitlities?

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Utility programs are software that has been designed to carry out specific tasks in the computer, such as; antivirus, disk repair, security and file management.

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