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Welcome to Jeopardy!. With Your Host . . . Amy Scott. On-Line: $100. Move from place to place on the Internet searching for topics of interest. What is Surf?. Jeopardy. On-Line: $200. The process of transferring software/information from the Internet to your computer. What is Download?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Welcome to Jeopardy!
With Your Host . . . Amy Scott
On-Line
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Security & Maintenance
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On-Line: $100
Move from place to place on the Internet searching for topics of
interest
What is Surf?
On-Line: $200
The process of transferring software/information from the
Internet to your computer.
What is Download?
On-Line: $300
The front or main web page, which provides access to web sites on the
Internet.
What is the Homepage?
On-Line: $400
The language in which World Wide Web documents is written.
What isHyperText Markup Language --
(HTML)?
On-Line: $500
AOL, Comcast, Earthlink, Cornerstone, Compuserve, Starpower, Prodigy are
providers of this type of service.
What is ISP or Internet Service Provider?
Time To Work: $100
This general term for software (also called end-user programs) includes database
programs, word processors, and spreadsheets.
What are Applications?
Time To Work: $200
A computerized store (collection) of related information.
What is a database?
Time To Work: $300
The transmission of an electronic message over a communications
networks.
What is Email or electronic mail?
Time To Work: $400
A global network connecting millions of computers.
What is the Internet?
Time To Work: $500
A software tool used to organize data in a row and column format
and to perform multiple calculations.
What is a spreadsheet?
The Tech Box: $100
Start-up a computer from a powered-down state (when the computer is
not already on).
What is Cold Boot?
The Tech Box: $200
The “brains” of the computer. This unit directs the computer’s activities. Every
instruction given by the operator must first pass through this part before it can be
carried out.
What is the CPU or Central Processing Unit?
The Tech Box: $300
This is a type of computer memory that allows data to be stored and retrieved as
required. It is called this because any part of the memory can be located without
having to go through everything that comes before it.
What is RAM or Random Access Memory?
The Tech Box: $400
A type of display used in digital watches and many portable computers. Also a type of
projector.
What is LCD or Liquid Crystal Display?
The Tech Box: $500The most important program that runs on
a computer. Every general-purpose computer must have this to run other programs. It performs basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers.
What is the Operating System or OS?
Upkeep: $100Security & Maintenance
A contract specifying what a subscriber can and cannot do while using an ISP’s service or an organizations network and equipment.
What is AUP or Acceptable Use Policy?
Upkeep: $200 Security & Maintenance
Copy files to a second medium (a disk or tape) as a precaution in case the first medium fails and the files are lost.
What is Backup?
Upkeep: $300 Security & Maintenance
A mechanism to keep unauthorized users from accessing parts of a network or host
computer.
What is a firewall?
Upkeep: $400 Security & Maintenance
Resetting (restarting) a computer that is already turned on. Resetting it returns the computer to its initial state; any data or
programs in main memory are erased. A warm boot is sometimes necessary when a
computer has crashed or “locked-up.”
What is a Warm Boot?
Upkeep: $500 Security & Maintenance
A destructive computer program that invades by means of a normal program and damages the computer system.
What is a virus?
On the Side: $100
Various techniques and devices for storing large amounts of data. These include floppy
disks, tape drives, zip drives, hard disks, and optical disks.
What are Auxiliary Storage Devices?
On the Side: $200
A round silver colored disk that comes with a large amount of information embedded and ready to use. It is a read-only disk. Some allow you to burn your own files to it as well or even write to it multiple times.
What is a CD-ROM?(compact disk)
On the Side: $300
A device that can read text or illustrations printed on paper and translate the
information into a format that the computer can use.
What is a scanner?
On the Side: $400
Any device added to the computer (externally).
What is a peripheral device?
On the Side: $500
A device that transmits digital data in tones over a phone line; An acronym for
modulator-demodulator. A device or program that enables a computer to transmit
data over telephone lines.
What is a modem?
Other: $100
A listing of questions typically asked along with the answers to the questions. These
lists are frequently prepared to help beginners to use computer software.
What are FAQs?(frequently asked questions)
Other: $200
A two-dimensional or three-dimensional computer image such as pictures, objects,
bar graphs, or pie charts.
What are graphics?
Other: $300
Multiple forms of communication including sound, video, video-conferencing, graphics,
and text.
What is Multimedia?
Other: $400
The page description language used in the Acrobat document exchange system.
What is a PDF? (Portable Document Format)
Other: $500
The process of preparing a storage medium, usually a disk, for reading and writing
information.
What is to format a disk?
Organize: $100
In a database record, a category that holds one type of information.
What is a field?
Organize: $200
An object that can contain multiple documents and is used to organize
information.
What is a folder?
Organize: $300
A search for specific data. It implies that any condition can be searched for using the
operators AND, OR, and NOT.
What is Boolean Search Logic?
Organize: $400
This is a metaphor to portray file systems.
It consists of pictures, called icons, which show files, folders, and various types of
documents. You can arrange the icons on this screen to suit your particular needs.
What is a desktop?
Organize: $500
A hypertext-based collection of computers on the Internet that allows you to travel from one linked document to another, even if
those documents reside on many different servers.
What is the World Wide Web?(WWW)
Be Social: $100
An electronic mailing list used to deliver messages to the e-mail addresses of people
interested in a particular topic.
What is a Listserv?
Be Social: $200
The global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.
What is the URL?(Universal Resource Locator)
Be Social: $300
The Internet version of an electronic discussion group in which people can leave
messages or post questions.
What is a Newsgroup?
Be Social: $400
A group of computers and other devices dispersed over a relatively limited area and connected by a communications link that enables any device to interact with any
other device on the network.
What is the LAN?(Local Area Network)
Be Social: $500
A communications network that connects geographically separated areas.
What is a WAN?(Wide Area Network)
Jeopardy!
Computer Parts
• A handheld device that moves the computer screen cursor by rolling a plastic ball (or laser light) along a flat surface, communicating with the computer by cable or remote signal.
What is the mouse?