Chapter 7 Key Terms

Chapter 7 Key Terms

8th - 12th Grade

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Chapter 7 Key Terms

Chapter 7 Key Terms

Assessment

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Computers

8th - 12th Grade

Hard

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7 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is Utility software?

Software that is designed to optimise the performance of a computer system

Software that compresses files and reduces the amount of space required for storage

Software that prevents the system from becoming infected with malware

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

what is encryption?

protecting the system by scrambling data to ensure it can't be accessed by an unauthorised user

software that organises files

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is Antivirus protection?

Software that is designed to optimise the performance of a computer system

This prevents the system from being infected by malware

Protecting the system by scrambling data

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is data compression?

Software that is designed to optimise the performance of a computer system

This compresses files and reduces the amount of space required for storage therefore helping to improve the memory available for the system to perform activities

Protecting the system by downsizing data

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is Defragmentation?

Software that is designed to optimise the performance of a computer system

Organising the information in the system into clusters and places the most regularly used components into places where it is easily accessible

Scrambling software to make it inaccessible

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is lossy compression?

Organising the information in the system into clusters and places the most regularly used components into places where it is easily accessible

This compresses files to a much smaller size, but will lose some of the data from the files which can't be recovered

Creates duplicates of programs

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is Lossless compression?

Compression of the files to a slightly reduced size

Defragments programs

compresses files into a larger size