Module 2 Flashcards

1
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What hard in Hardware means?

A

Solid, tangible, and able to be seen and felt.

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2
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Whate ware means in Hardware?

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Something created.

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3
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What words combined to make the word internet?

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Interconnected and network.

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4
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What is the internet?

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Is an interconnected network of many computers around the world.

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5
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What are the two thing that the internet does?

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  1. Connects a network of many computers around the world.
  2. It sets agreements for transferring differents types of data between those computers (protocols).
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6
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What www stands for?

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World Wide Web.

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7
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What is the world wide web?

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Is a collection of linked electronic documents, organized into groups called websites.

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8
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What is a website composed of?

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Webpages.

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9
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What is the difference between the internet and world wide web?

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The internet is the hardware and rules for exchanging information. The world wide web is one type of information that is accessed over the internet.

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10
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What Execute means?

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To perform a specific task or action.

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11
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What Run means?

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The same as execute.

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12
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What is an Operation System?

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Is a special-purpose computer program that supports the computer’s basics functions, such as scheduling tasks, running other computer programs, and controlling peripherals.

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13
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What install means?

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To put a program in a state that can be used.

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14
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What is a condition?

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Something that must be true before something else occurs.

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15
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What to Boot a computer means?

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To statup a computer, meaning it can operate by itself beyond this step.

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What happen during the booting process?

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Things like connecting to external equipments (keyboard etc), installing all required instructions into the computer’s temporary data storage, and turning on specific computer programs.

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17
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What is memory in a computer?

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Is a physical device that stores data.

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18
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How can you think of a data storage device?

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As a collection of boxes (memory locations). Each box contain one piece of data and each box has identifiers (an address) so that the computer can keep track of it. The computer can read and write to these memory locations.

19
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What means to say that a memory storage device is votile?

A

That they loose their data when they are powerd off.

20
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What means to say that a memory storage device is persistent?

A

That they keep their data when they are powerd off.

21
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What is ROM?

A

Read Only Memory. Used to boot and other functions.

22
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What is CD-ROM?

A

Compact Disck Read Only Memory.

23
Q

What is an Equation?

A

Two things are the same using numbers.

24
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What is a Hard copy?

A

A physical copy, like a prited book.

25
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What is a Soft Copy?

A

A software copy, like a file.

26
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What is Unix?

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It’s an operating system. It was one of the first operating systems to be written using high-level programming language. It was developed so that anyone could alter the code to personalize it and make tweaks.

27
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What is a chip?

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Short for microship, they contain millions of parts that store and pass on information.

28
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Electricity can be _____ or can ____ from one location to another.

A

stored, flow.

29
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Electricity can be ________ or ________.

A

Negative or positive.

30
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What is a circuit?

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Is a path that electricity flows along from beginning to end.

31
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What is Dump?

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Short for Data Dump. Is a large amount of information trasnsferred from one location to another. If you dumped information from one computer to another, you would be moving all the information from the first computer onto the second computer.

32
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What are Drives?

A

Persistent memory devices.

33
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What is a Hard Drive?

A

Is a drive where the data is stored on one or more disks that are mounted, in a stack, inside a solid case. On the surface of the disk there is a layer of magnetic material. The way it works is that small pieces of the magnetic material can be changed so they point all in one direction, or all in another direction.

34
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What is a SSD?

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Solid State Drives, are drives that pass the data along various paths without any components that move.

35
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What is ODD?

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Optical Disk Drive is a device that can read or write information. It looks like a CD-Room.

36
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What is a plataform?

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The combination of operating system and hardware.

37
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What is a Database?

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Is an organized collection of related data.

38
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What is stored together with the data?

A

It’s Data Type.

39
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The various thing you can do with data are called __________. Not all data types have the same __________ available to them.

A

operations, operations.

40
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What are files?

A

Collections of data stored on a computer.

41
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What RAM stands for?

A

Random Access Memory.

42
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What Random means in RAM?

A

It means that there is no time hierarchy between the access of the data. Any data that you access in the Ram will take the same time to access.

43
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What is the only memory storage whose data is directly acccessible by the CPU?

A

The mains storage. Today is the RAM. If the cpu need to process a file that is in the HD, this file is transferred to the RAM first.