Inf

Question 1

Data

Answer 1

words, numbers, images, sounds etc without context. (raw fact.) (40s , 7:30 , 37,50€)

Question 2

Information -

Answer 2

a collection of words, numbers, images, sounds etc put into context, i.e. to
give them meaning. Example: I start teaching at 7:30 today.

Question 3

RESULT

Answer 3

Data put into context becomes information.

Question 4

ICT

Answer 4

is technology that supports activities involving information
activities include gathering, processing, storing and presenting data

Question 5

hardware

Answer 5

the physical parts of the computer

Question 6

software

Answer 6

term for programs that control and make use of the hardware

Question 7

Types of software

Answer 7

Firmware - a program embedded onto a hardware device
An operating system (OS) - a platform that gives the user an interface to the hardware
Software applications( also called an application or ‘app’) -not essential

Question 8

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Answer 8

Hertz (Hz) - the ‘brain’ of the computer
is the device that carries out software instructions

Question 9

Main Memory (RAM)

Answer 9

• part of the computer that temporarily stores the instructions that the computer is running, and the data it is processing
• volatile storage device (means that if the computer’s power is turned off the contents of RAM disappear and are lost)

Question 10

Read-Only Memory (ROM)

Answer 10

• used in most computers to hold a small, special piece of software: the ‘boot up’ program (the BIOS (Basic Input Output System))
  -it runs when the computer is switched on or ‘boots up’
  -non-volatile storage (means that the data it contains is never lost, even if the power is switched off)

Question 11

Peripheral Devices (Peripheral means ‘around’)

Answer 11

• all the extra devices

Question 12

Input Devices

Answer 12

• they pass data into the computer.
  (A keyboard, a mouse and a webcam are all examples of input devices.)

Question 13

Output Devices

Answer 13

• they take data from the computer (A monitor, a printer and a loudspeaker)
  They take information from the computer and convert it into real world things (images, paper hardcopy, sound).

Question 14

Secondary / Backing Storage

Answer 14

name for all of the devices (apart from ROM and RAM) that can store data in a computer system
(A hard drive, a CD-ROM, a floppy disc and a USB memory stick)

Question 15

Informatics

Answer 15

• 1957 / info+math
  the study of behavior and structure of any system that represents, store, processes, generated 0,1

Question 16

Monitors

Answer 16

• refresh rate, resolution, cost, size, response time