ICT Year 8 Understanding Computers

Which of the following is computer hardware?

• Monitor

• Scanner

• Keyboard

• All three

Which of the following is an input device?

• Monitor

• Mouse

• CD ROM

• Printer

Whick of the following is an output device?

• Keyboard

• Hard disk

• CD ROM

• Monitor

Which of the following is a storage device?

• CD ROM

• Laser printer

• Random Access Memory

• Scanner

Which of the following is an input device?

• Speed camera

• Speaker

• Flash drive

• Inkjet printer

Which of the following is an output device?

• Lift button

• Joystick

• Laser printer

• Scanner

Which of the following is computer software?

• Touch screen

• MS Windows

• Printer

• Floppy disk

A CD ROM is

• a magnetic storage head read by a magnetised read-write head

• an optical storage device read by a laser beam

• a magnetic storage device read by a laser beam

On a CD ROM

• data is written in concentric circles

• you can write data to the disk more than once

• Pits and Lands are used to represent 1s and 0s

• all data is represented in ASCII

What would be a suitable device to transfer 12 photos from one device to another?

• Memory stick

• CD ROM

• Scanner

• Printer