Computer Basics Review

What does CPU stand for?

How do you store or represent information using electricity?

"Word processing" is another way to say...

?? is what you see when you look inside a computer - it’s a bunch of circuits, chips, wires, speakers, plugs, etc.

I wake up the computer and remind it what to do.

When you use a computer to collect and organize information like addresses and other facts, you're using a...

I am the brain of the computer.

What is the name of the Operating System that PC computers use (like at school)?

What is the most basic form of software and that controls the hardware of a computer?

Which device(s) output information from a computer?

Typical example of pseudocode include ________________ to complete a task or create/retrieve an item.

I connect computers and allow them to talk to each other.

This is a type of computer program that calculates math, looks like a chart and helps people balance budgets...

The purpose of storage in a computer is to hold data or ?

Desktop publishing is a fancy term for...

What is this on/ off state of a single wire called? (Hint: it’s the smallest piece of information a computer can store.)

??? is what you don’t see. It’s all of the computer programs, or code, running on the machine.

What is the large program that controls how the CPU communicates with other hardware components?

 What is the name for the largest circuit board? (It has many smaller circuit boards plugged into it.)

What is an informal way to write out what a program does without using syntax/code the program will be created in?

Which holds the information that you store in the computer (in the hard drive)?

Which device(s) INPUT information to a computer?

Information is stored on my magnetic cylinders.

Binary code only uses ? numbers.

 Which holds all of the essential memory that tells your computer how to be a computer (on the motherboard)?