All of These Devices?

What is a computer?

• Any device that contains a digital interface for doing things

• Any device that uses a binary language in the form of electrical pulses of on and off

• Both of these describe a computer

• Neither of these describe a computer

What is a monitor?

• Any device that allows audio to output from the computer as sound

• Any device that allows you see what the computer is doing

• Both of these describe a computer

• Neither of these describe a computer

What is a keyboard?

• Any device that allows you input information into the computer

• Any device that allows you select and deselect icons and files with a digital cursor

• Both of these describe a computer

• Neither of these describe a computer

What is a mouse?

• Any device that allows you input information into the computer

• Any device that allows you select and deselect icons and files with a digital cursor

• Both of these describe a computer

• Neither of these describe a computer

True or False: A peripheral device is anything that plugs into a port on the outside of the computer tower.

• True

• False

True or False: A keyboard is a peripheral device.

• True

• False

True or False: A CPU is a peripheral device.

• True

• False

True or False: A GPU, or graphics card, is a peripheral device.

• True

• False

Computers and other devices can connect to each other

• by a USB cable

• over a wireless network

• with Bluetooth

• All of these are ways to connecting computers and other devices

A computer network is

• a digital landscape made up of transmitters, routers, receivers, and servers that allow computers to connect to each other

• another name for what we call a TV station like ESPN or Cartoon Network

• a group of people you are socially connected to for mutual benefits related to business