Cis 100 Midterm| 50 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

1. What are the 5 components of a computer? correct answer: CPU, bus, memory, storage, input and output 2. What are the similarity and differences between a pc and a mobile device? correct answer: Differences: Form factor, a mobile device you can carry with you and a PC is a stationary device. Similarity: They both have an operating system; they both have the 5 components of a computer. 3. What is a server? correct answer: In a client server environment, the server is the computer that renders the client's request for content. 4. Is a smartphone a computer? correct answer: Yes, It has the 5 components of a computer. 5. What is an input device and give 3 examples? correct answer: Anything that can be communicated with a computer Ex. Mouse, keyboard, and a scanner 6. Three boxes correct answer: Data (input) - Process - Information (output) 7. What is an output device? correct answer: A way for the computer to communicate with us. Ex. Monitor, speakers, Blu-ray player 8. Compare and contrast DRAM vs. storage. correct answer: Everything that is in dynamic memory will be erase when the computer is turned off, Storage on the other hand can retain data once information has written on it. 9. What is cloud storage? correct answer: Storage that is on the Internet that we can buy. 10. What is the Internet? correct answer: Is the info structure that we use to move contents around? 11. What is the World Wide Web? correct answer: Is the content that we receive from the Internet. 12. What is a website? correct answer: Is a collection of pages with a common theme. 13. What are a browser and what it is use for? c