Quiz 2 Flashcards
“___________ technology” merges computing with high-speed communications.
INFORMATION
A(n)___________ is an electronic machine that accepts data and processes it into information.
COMPUTER
___________ refers to information presented in nontextual forms such as video, sound, and graphics.
MULTIMEDIA
____________ are high-capacity computers with thousands of processors.
SUPERCOMPUTERS
Main memory is a software component. T/F
FALSE
Movies are a form of multimedia. T/F
TRUE
Modems store information. T/F
FALSE
___________ refers to two-way communication; the user can respond to information received via the computer and modify what the computer is doing.
INTERACTIVITY
The general term for all the machinery and equipment in a computer system is__________.
HARDWARE
One gigabyte is approximately________ characters.
BILLION
The__________ is the display device that takes the electrical signals from the video card and forms an image using points of colored light on the screen.
MONITOR
__________ is data that is so large and complex that it cannot be processed using conventional methods.
BIG DATA
Micro controllers process faster than supercomputers. T/F
FALSE
Computers are becoming larger, slower, and more expensive. T/F
FALSE
A modem is a programmable, multiuse machine that accepts data—raw facts and figures—and processes, or manipulates, it into information we can use. T/F
FALSE
