Basic Computer Terminology

Electronics Occupations

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2. A physically smaller computer designed primarily for the use of one person at a time.
5. It is the smallest amount of storage required to represent a single character.
6. ___________ Component Interconnect. A newer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard that was first introduced as additional expansion alongside the ISA bus and now is the main expansion bus in modern computers.
7. A group a related information. The plural of datum.
8. The number of bits that can be transmitted over a wire or through a device per second.
10. Industry _________ Architecture. Designed by IBM to connect peripheral cards to the motherboard.
11. A letter of the alphabet, a number ranging from 0-9, or a special character like a punctuation mark or a space.
13. A component that generates the electrical pulses that control the speed at which a microprocessor executes instructions or other components operate.
15. A device or collection of devices (system) that can perform the 4 basic functions of data processing.
18. The standard byte configuration agreed upon by many manufacturers in order to facilitate information exchange between different brands and models of computer systems.
19. This is what does not physically exist, but is made to appear to by software.
20. Data or information that can be stored in the form of general information such as employee names, numbers or students or instructions for hardware to follow called programs.

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1. A collection of fields that make a specific set of information.
3. __________ Drive Electronics. A standard data bus connection for things like hard drives and CD-ROM or DVD drives.
4. A collection of characters that make a datum such as a name or student number, etc.
5. Binary Digit – The smallest amount of data storage or representation.
9. The act of connecting 2 or more things together so they can share data.
12. Any physical device.
14. A group of disk sectors.
16. Concentric rings of data on a disk.
17. The idea that if incorrect or irrelevant information is input into a computer it will only be capable of outputting incorrect or irrelevant “garbage” information at best.