Hardware component that allows user to enter data and instruction from user to the computer

Keypad device with button or keys that a user presses to enter data characters and command into the computer

The most common English key pattern for keyboard

American inventor and printer who created the QWERTY keyboard layout

An input device that allows the user to control a pointer on the screen

The most widely used pointing device for desktop computer

Mouse that have a rubber ball on its underside

Mouse that emits and senses light to detect movements

An upside-down mechanical mouse where the ball is directly rolled by hand

Small, flat, rectangular pointing device that is sensitive to pressure and motion

Pressure sensitive pointing device shape like a pencil eraser that is positioned between the keys on the keyboard

Handheld pointing device that detects a presence of light

A touch sensitive display device

Small metal or plastic device that uses pressure instead of ink

A device that scan an image and convert it in a digital data that a computer can accept and represent on screen

The processes of entering input by speaking into a microphone

The process of entering any sounds in the computer such as speech, music and sound effects

The process of capturing full-motion images and storing them on a computer storage

Video camera that display its output on the internet

Meeting between two or more geographically separated people who uses the internet to transmit audio and data

It convert text, drawing or picture into a computer for processing

A scanner that scan one page at a time

An inexpensive, handy and portable scanner

Expensive scanner used to scan large size photograph, slides, negative and single page documents

Device that uses light source to read characters, marks and codes and then convert them in digital data that a computer can process

Technology that reads hand-drawn marks such as small circles and rectangles

Device that uses light source to read special characters and convert them to electrical signals to be sent to cpu

Technology that uses radio signals to communicate with the tag containing a memory chip and an antenna attached to an object, animals or person

Device that reads the strip on the back of credit cards, bank cards and other similar card

Data that has been processed into a useful form

Four basic categories of output: text, graphics,____ , and video

Hardware consists of external devices that transfer information from the computer's cpu to the computer user

Monitor that uses liquid compound to present information on a display device

The "hang on the wall" monitor

The most advance form of digital television, working with digital broadcast signals, transmitting digital sound, supporting wide screens, and provides a high resolution

The standard television like monitor most computers have used for the past decade

A process of sweeping electron beams across the back of the screen

The ____of the screen-its clarity is directly related to the number of pixels on the screen

Color screen standard with highest resolution

Color screen standard with lowest resolution

Color screen standard with 640 x 480 pixels resolution

Color screen standard with 640 x 350 pixels resolution

Device that takes the text and images displaying on a computer screen and project them on a largest screen

Projector used in high lighting condition that does not have the fight the light feature

Interactive whiteboards, used with a multimedia projector that allows the user to control the computer and all of its programs by simply touching the board

Output device that produces text and graphics on a physical medium such as paper or transparency film

Printers that uses some sort of physical contact with the paper to produce an image, by physically striking the paper

High speed impact printer that prints an entire line at a time

Printer which prints by means of photographic, heat, laser, or ink spray

Printer resolution is measures by the number of ­____a printer can print

Printer that forms characters and graphics by spraying tiny drops of liquid ink onto a piece of paper

Color printer that produces photo-lab quality pictures

High-speed, high-quality non-impact printer that prints text and graphics in high resolutions, usually 1200 dpi for black and white and up to 2400 dpi for color printer

Printer that generates images by pushing electrically heated pins against heat sensitive paper

Small printer that prints on an adhesive-type materials that can be placed on envelopes, packages, floppy disks, cd’s, dvd’

Sophisticated printers used to produce high quality drawings such as blue-prints, maps, and circuit diagrams

Two commonly used audio devices are _____and headsets

Device that codes and encodes document so they can be transmitted over telephone lines

It allows you to send and sometimes receive electronic documents as faxes

Case that contains electronic components of the computer used to process data

Case of the system unit, sometimes called the____, is made of metal or plastic and protects the internal electronic components from damage

Sometimes called the ____, is the main circuit board of the system unit

The brain of the computer

Controls, supervises and directs the operation of the computer

It performs specific operations such as addition, multiplication, and conditional tests on the data entered in the computer for processing

Small, high-speed storage locations that temporarily hold data and instruction

It generates regular electronic pulses or ticks that set the operating pace of components of the system unit

The pace of the system clock is called the _____

Memory that loses its content when the computer power is turn off

Memory that do not lose its content when power is removed from the computer

Semiconductor-based memory that contains instructions or data that can be read but not modified

Computer’s temporary storage compartment which can be written as well as read

Memory that helps speed the processes of the computer because it stores frequently used instructions and data

Non-volatile memory that holds the computer start-up instructions to easily updates its content

One exabyte is approximately ___ bytes

One yottabyte is approximately ___ bytes

A ____ is an erasable multisession disc you can read but not write or erase content

A ____ is an erasable multisession disc you can write on multiple times

Storage media are sometimes referred to as ___

Another name for computer memory

Devices such as a keyboard and mouse usually attach to ____ on the system unit by a connector on a cable

1 byte = _____ bits

Storage device that typically uses flash memory to store data, instructions, and information

Store microscopic images of documents on roll or sheet film usually four to six inches

Flash memory device that plugs in a USB port on a computer or portable device

Thin, credit card-sized device that adds memory, storage, sound, fax/modem, network, and other capabilities to mobile computers

Magnetic coated ribbon of plastic capable of storing large amounts of data and information at a low cost

Storage media that consists of a flat, round, portable disc made of metal, plastic, and lacquer that is written by laser

Uses magnetic particles to store items such as data, instructions, and information on the disk’s surface

Hardware components that allows you to enter data and instruction in the computer

The case that contains the electronic components of the computer

Device that hold instruction, data and information for future use

Device that enables computers to send and receive information, data and instruction from other computers

Most widely use communication device

Computer that can perform all its input, process, output and storage by itself

Special type of notebook computer that uses digital pen to write and draw on the screen

A more powerful larger than the workstation computer

A large, expensive and powerful computer capable of handling thousands of connected user simultaneously

Special purpose computer that function as a component for a larger products

A set of instruction that the computer use to manipulate data or causes the machine to do work

It represent the personnel involve in the function of computer

Which of the following is not a computer limitations

Which of the following is a computer failures

Which of the following is the disadvantage of using a computer

Which of the following is not an advantage of using computer

Which of the following is an example of personal computer

Which of the following is a hardware

Which of the following is the fastest

Components of the third generation computer that makes the computer smaller and faster