Introduction to Hardware and Software

Hardware is the

• tangible components

• intangible components

• programs on the computer

• processing device

Software is

• unprcessed information

• data

• the tangible components

• the programs on the computer

All of the following are examples of hardware except:

• Memory Card

• Scanner

• Microsoft Word

• Bar Code Reader

A _______ is a hand-held pointing device.

• mouse

• touchscreen

• keyboard

• scanner

This image is a/an

• speakers

• ear phone

• headset

• headphone

The CPU is inside the _______.

• Box

• Processor

• Modem

• system unit

The CPU is known as the _____ of the computer.

• brain

• limbs

• heart

• lungs

A scanner turns

• images to text

• soft copy to hard copy

• hard copy to soft copy

• text to images

A printer turns

• images to text

• soft copy to hard copy

• hard copy to soft copy

• text to images

A webcam can be ________ into a computer.

• built-in

• stored

• saved

• none of the above