Module 2

Question 1

What hard in Hardware means?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Whate ware means in Hardware?

Answer 2

Something created.

Question 3

What words combined to make the word internet?

Answer 3

Interconnected and network.

Question 4

What is the internet?

Answer 4

Is an interconnected network of many computers around the world.

Question 5

What are the two thing that the internet does?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What www stands for?

Answer 6

World Wide Web.

Question 7

What is the world wide web?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is a website composed of?

Answer 8

Webpages.

Question 9

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

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

What Execute means?

Answer 10

To perform a specific task or action.

Question 11

What Run means?

Answer 11

The same as execute.

Question 12

What is an Operation System?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What install means?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is a condition?

Answer 14

Something that must be true before something else occurs.

Question 15

What to Boot a computer means?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What happen during the booting process?

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

What is memory in a computer?

Answer 17

Is a physical device that stores data.

Question 18

How can you think of a data storage device?

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

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

Answer 19

That they loose their data when they are powerd off.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

That they keep their data when they are powerd off.

Question 21

What is ROM?

Answer 21

Read Only Memory. Used to boot and other functions.

Question 22

What is CD-ROM?

Answer 22

Compact Disck Read Only Memory.

Question 23

What is an Equation?

Answer 23

Two things are the same using numbers.

Question 24

What is a Hard copy?

Answer 24

A physical copy, like a prited book.

Question 25

What is a Soft Copy?

Answer 25

A software copy, like a file.

Question 26

What is Unix?

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

What is a chip?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

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

Answer 28

stored, flow.

Question 29

Electricity can be ________ or ________.

Answer 29

Negative or positive.

Question 30

What is a circuit?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What is Dump?

Answer 31

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.

Question 32

What are Drives?

Answer 32

Persistent memory devices.

Question 33

What is a Hard Drive?

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

What is a SSD?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What is ODD?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What is a plataform?

Answer 36

The combination of operating system and hardware.

Question 37

What is a Database?

Answer 37

Is an organized collection of related data.

Question 38

What is stored together with the data?

Answer 38

It’s Data Type.

Question 39

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

Answer 39

operations, operations.

Question 40

What are files?

Answer 40

Collections of data stored on a computer.

Question 41

What RAM stands for?

Answer 41

Random Access Memory.

Question 42

What Random means in RAM?

Answer 42

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.

Question 43

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

Answer 43

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.