Transcript Welcome to Jeopardy!

Welcome to Jeopardy!
With Your Host . . . Amy Scott
OnLine
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Tech
Box
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Upkeep
On
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Side
Other
Organize
Be
Social
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Security &
Maintenance
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 is
HyperText 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 powereddown 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: $500
The 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: $100
Security & 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?