Principles of IT - Mod 2 Vocab Quiz

Information that a user physically enters into a computer by pressing a key on a keyboard, clicking a mouse, tapping a touch screen, pushing a button on a game controller, speaking into a microphone, etc.

• Input

• Throughput

• Output

• Kaput

The operations performed by a computer to retrieve, transform, or classify information.

• Calculation

• Processing

• Tabulate

• Transistor

 Information that a computer returns to a user such as images on a screen, sounds from speakers, and printed pages.

• Input

• Throughput

• Output

• Storage

The saving of information on memory chips, discs, or other storage media by a computer for later use.

• Deletion

• Storage

• Rescuing

• Retrieval

Reorder the following by order of invention.

• Personal Computer Revolution

• The World Wide Web

• Invention of the Microchip

• Tabulating Machine

• First Transistor Developed

Match the following

• A mobile phone that functions as a computer and allows users to access the internet.

• Herman Hollerith

• The fastest, most powerful computers that exist at a given time.

• Human-computer Interaction

• A smaller, faster, cheaper, and more durable electronic device that replaced mechanical relays.

• Smartphone

• Created the Tabulating Machine and considered the father of computing.

• Supercomputer

• A field of study that looks at how computers and other kinds of technology interact with humans.

• Transistor