computer scavenger hunt test questions and answers well illustrated.

computer scavenger hunt test questions and answers well illustrated. What are the four components that all computers have in common? - correct , storage, processing, output What is a dingbat? - correct al characters like stars, hands, arrows, and geometric shapes you can use to decorate a document what is a handshake? - correct answers.a set of sequels and signs that helps the modems determine how they will exchange information what is a home page? - correct introductory screen on the web, used to welcome visitors what handles can you not hold in your hand? - correct e squares at the edge and corners of a selected graphic on your screen what was ENIAC? - correct worlds first general purpose computer what contribution did Ada Byron make to computing? - correct did work on the early mechanical general purpose computer what do they call the suit that clean room technicians must wear while making computer chips and why is it necessary? - correct suits: so it does not shock or electrocute them what does modem stand for? - correct ator-demodulator What does a modem do? - correct rts a digital signal from a computer into an analog signal, so that can be transferred down a telephone line how many nibbles are in a byte? - correct answers.2 what is a terabyte? - correct answers.a unit of information equal to one million bytes what have USB's replaced? - correct y disk What is a USB Flash drive considered as? - correct answers.a small external flash drive that can be used with any computer that has a USB port what did Douglass Elbert invent? - correct computer mouse what is a computer virus? - correct answers.a piece of code that gets in your computer that can destroy data and infects a computer names 3 peripherals - correct , keyboard, and monitor what does GUI mean? - correct ical user interface what is an advantage of a Dvorak keyboard? - correct increases typing speed How did Marcian Hoff change computers? - correct invented the microprocessor do all computers have a microprocessor? - correct what is a gigaflop? - correct answers.a unit of computing speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second what is our school domain web address ? - correct what is a lisa and when did she come out? - correct answers.a desktop computer developed by apple: Jan. 19, 1983 who coined the term "information superhighway" ? - correct president Al Gore what cam first, email or the world wide web? and when? - correct answers.Email; 1973 who founded Facebook and in what year? - correct answers.Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 what year was Hewlett Packard found? - correct answers.1939 what year was apple found? - correct answers.1976 what year was Microsoft found? - correct answers.1975 what year was IBM found? - correct answers.1911 what year was Dell found? - correct answers.1984