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Welcome to CST 133 Computer Concepts Jeopardy. Your Host: Don Southwell. The Internet. Acronyms. Hardware. Software. Numbers. A network of networks. What is the Internet?. Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, for example . What is a browser?.
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Welcome to CST 133 Computer Concepts Jeopardy Your Host: Don Southwell Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
The Internet Acronyms Hardware Software Numbers (c) Grauer and Barber - 2005
A network of networks What is the Internet? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, for example What is a browser? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
The process of encoding data so that it is not in original form when sent across the Internet What is encryption? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
Company or organization that provides access to the Internet What is an ISP (Internet Service Provider)? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
A small text file written to your computer each time you visit a Web site What is a cookie? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
CPU What is the Central Processing Unit? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
WYSIWYG What is What You See is What You Get (“wizzywig”)? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
ROM What is Read Only Memory? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
GUI What is Graphical User Interface (“gooey”)? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
FTP What is File Transfer Protocol? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
Coding scheme in which each combination of 8 bits represents a different character What is ASCII (pronounced “as key”)? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
The company that provides the Pentium family of chips What is Intel? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
It is always designated as drive A What is the floppy disk drive? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
The number of pixels displayed at one time; e.g., 1024 x 768 What is resolution (of a computer monitor)? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
Use this to double the warranty of a new PC What is a credit card? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
The operating system that preceded Windows What is DOS (or MS-DOS)? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
The four core applications in Microsoft Office What are Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
An actively infectious program that attaches itself to a file What is a (computer) virus? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
Program used to move and copy files, and which provides a hierarchical view of your system What is Windows Explorer? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
Used to organize the files stored on a system What are folders? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
The values in the binary system What are zero and one? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
The number of bits in a byte What is 8? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
The exact number of bytes in one kilobyte What is 1,024 (210)? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
Approximately one million bytes What is a megabyte? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board
Approximately one billion bytes What is a gigabyte? Click once to display answer; click the answer to return to the question board