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Quiz Show. Technology Terms. Vocabulary Quiz Board. Acronyms - $100. PC Link. Acronyms - $200. GUI Link. Acronyms – 3. KB Link. Acronyms - 4. WYSIWYG Link. Acronyms - 5. LAN Link. Acronyms $100. The Acronym for Personal Computer. Acronyms $200.

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  1. Quiz Show Technology Terms

  2. Vocabulary Quiz Board

  3. Acronyms - $100 • PC • Link

  4. Acronyms - $200 • GUI • Link

  5. Acronyms – 3 • KB • Link

  6. Acronyms - 4 • WYSIWYG • Link

  7. Acronyms - 5 • LAN • Link

  8. Acronyms $100 • The Acronym for Personal Computer

  9. Acronyms $200 • The Acronym for Graphical User Interface • When users could point and click at graphical items rather than typing out all the commands. For example, • Copy a:/english/essay1.doc to c:/my documents/english/essa1.doc

  10. Acronyms $300 • The Acronym Kilobytes – • Approximately - 1000 bytes of Data • 1 KB stores about a one page single spaced text.

  11. Acronyms $400 • The Acronym for the phrase “What You See is What You Get” • What you see on your screen is what prints on the printer

  12. Acronyms $500 • Local Area Network • Used to link computers and printers throughout an organization such as a school or business that are located on the same premises.

  13. Hardware for $100 • What is the component that stores data permanently • Link

  14. Hardware Answer $100 • Hard drive also known as the C: Drive

  15. Hardware for $200 • What is the most important component that determines the speed of the computer • Link

  16. Hardware Answer $200 • CPU also known as • Central Processing Unit • Processor • Microprocessor • The Brain of the computer

  17. Hardware for $300 • The Processor of the computer provides • Brain power • Performs calculations • Executes commands • Provides temporary storage • A, b, c • B, c, d • Link Note there will not be this many choices on final

  18. Hardware Answer for $300 • e CPU is described all these ways - brainpower, calculations, and commands

  19. Hardware $400 • What is the third most important component for the overall speed and performance of the computer and what does it do? • Link Note this is not on the final

  20. Hardware Answer for $400 • BUS – it is the communication pathway for data to flow to and from all components of the computer.

  21. Hardware for $500 • What unit of measure determines the speed of the CPU and RAM and what is the definition? • Link

  22. Hardware Answer for $500 • Hertz • One single oscillation of an electromagnetic wave. • Bonus Question

  23. Software for $100 • What type of software is your Windows XP considered • Operating System • Application • Data • Link

  24. Software Answer for $100 • Operating System • Example – Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X Tiger

  25. Software for $200 • Data files are software and each file that is saved has a __________ at the end of the name – Please give one example. • Link

  26. Software Answer for $200 • Extension – that identifies the type of file it is • Examples • RTF – Rich Text Format • Doc – Word Document • WPS – Works • XLS – Excel spreadsheet • PPT – PowerPoint

  27. Software for $300 • Given this pathname identify the primary folder – A:\FallSem2004\English\Essay1.doc • Link

  28. Software Answer for $300 • FallSem2004

  29. Software for $400 • Software is/are • The logical part of the computer • The invisible part of the computer • Things such as peripheral devices • Files and applications • A and b • A b and d • A c and d • None of the above • Link Note there will not be this many choices on the final.

  30. Software Answer for $400 • F. logical, invisible, files, applications

  31. Software for $500 • What is a Killer Application? • A piece of software that corrupts your computer so nothing works • A computer that is a lemon and you have to return on a warranty • A program application so awesome that you have to buy a computer to run it. • A new type of virus that your anti-virus software does not know how to fix. Link

  32. Software Answer for $500 • A program application so awesome that you have to buy a computer to run it • Bonus – What was the first killer application and what computer company benefited. For $200

  33. Software Bonus Answer $200 • Visicalc – the electronic spreadsheet used on the Apple II Computer. • For final remember that it is the spreadsheet

  34. Anything for $100 • A single spaced 1 page report takes up about ____ storage space. • Link

  35. Anything Answer for $100 • 1 Kilobyte • Bonus for $100 • 3000 average length novels take up about _____ storage space • Link

  36. Anything Bonus Answer for $100 • 1 Gigabyte (GB) • Quadruple bonus $400 – how many bytes is a gigabyte? Answer

  37. Anything for $200 • The speed of the processor and RAM is measured by what unit. • Link

  38. Anything Answer for $200 • Hertz – electronic magnetic waves

  39. Anything for $300 • The science that designs products to increase people’s productivity and to reduce physical fatigue is called??? • Link

  40. Anything Answer for $300 • Ergonomics

  41. Anything for $400 • The subfolder for the pathname A:/Homework/essay1.doc is? • Link

  42. Anything Answer for $400 • There is none only a primary folder -homework • A:/Homework/essay1.doc is? • Try again • The subfolder for C:/fall2006/homework/essay1.doc • Link

  43. Anything Try Again for $300 • Homework is the subfolder and the primary folder is fall2006 • C:/fall2006/homework/essay1.doc

  44. Anything for $500 • What type of computer would you want to purchase to track and do simulations of hurricanes? • Link

  45. Anything Answer for $500 • A supercomputer

  46. Anything for $600 • Where is Silicon Valley • Boston Massachusetts • Atlanta Georgia • San Jose/San Francisco area • Los Angeles • None of the above Link

  47. Anything Answer for $600 C. San Jose/San Francisco area It is the Technology Capital so to speak or our country. Other areas are important but this area is significant.

  48. Hardware – Bonus Question - $600 • What component determines the number of applications that can be running at the same time. • Link

  49. Hardware – Bonus Answer - $600 • RAM – the larger the Random Access Memory the more applications (Internet, Word, PowerPoint) can be running at the same time. • RAM is also commonly referred to as just memory • IT is Temporary.

  50. Gigabyte – Answer for $400 • 1 billion bytes • About 3000 average length novels or 1500 large color pictures.

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