2025 Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct.
Western Governors University
Terms in this set (489)
Hardware Physical components of a computer
system which include the system unit and
its components and peripheral devices;
tangible aspects of the computer.
Motherboards, graphics cards, central
processing units (CPUs), and power supply
,Middleware allows the hardware and software to
communicate with each other, enabling data
to move between computer system
components
Software a collection of instructions that enable a user
to interact with a computer to perform tasks.
Internet browsers, text editing tools, and
spreadsheets are examples of computer
software
Types of system Windows, Mac, or Linux
software
allow users to type letters, complete
Word processing
assignments, and produce any other written
applications
artifact.
,Spreadsheet Spreadsheet applications help create charts and
applications complete complex calculations.
Email applications allow a user to receive and send email
communications.
Web browsers allow a user to access the content of web pages
on various sites.
The Motherboard is at the center of what makes a computer
work. It houses the CPU and serves as the
brain of the system allocating resources,
such as power, and communicating with all
other components.
The CPU processes the data from the programs your
computer runs.
, Random-access
occupies the memory slots of the CPU and
memory
keeps that data immediately accessible.
(RAM)
The hard drive is a storage device that permanently stores
data, or temporarily stores data in a paging
file system.
This paging a built-in mechanism available with most
operating systems that permit data to be
moved from RAM to the hard drive when
the amount of memory in use exceeds the
memory available on the computer system.
Network A collection of computers and resources
connected by various media so that they can
communicate with each other.