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