DSST COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXAM WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS

hardware - correct answersanything that makes up the computer like the monitor, etc. software - correct answersany program that runs on the computer CISC - correct answersComplex Instruction Set Computer ALU - correct answersArithmetic Logic Unit RAM - correct answerswrite and read memory Hard drive - correct answersstores information input device - correct answerskeyboard, mouse ROM - correct answersread only memory Peripheral Device - correct answersscanner, printer POS - correct answersPoint of Sale output device - correct answersanything that retrieves information from the hard disk like the printer or moniter PDA - correct answerspersonal digital assistant ex. a palm pilot bit - correct answersbinary digit byte - correct answersA group of eight bits. EBCDIC - correct answersExtended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ASCII - correct answersAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange JPEG - correct answersimage file TIFF - correct answersTagged Image File Format, another type of image file MPEG - correct answersMoving Picture Experts Group, digital video files LAN - correct answersLocal Area Network Ring Network - correct answersa network where each node is "daisy chained" to the next node so all connect in a ring WAN - correct answersWide Area Network Asynchronous - correct answerssending one bit after the other cold boot - correct answerswhen the system is powered on and restarted by a user RAD - correct answersrapid action development PERT - correct answersprogram evaluation and review technique Ghantt Chart - correct answersa chart used in project management which shows the amount of time for each step in the development process pseudocode - correct answerssimple and standardized programming language What are the logical operators? - correct answersand, or, not name 2 object-oriented languages - correct answersC++, java name 4 procedural languages - correct answersFORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, C language HTML - correct answershypertext markup language example of an input device - correct answerskeyboard peripheral device - correct answersany electronic component that is attached to the computer but external to it blog - correct answersonline journal or webpage where a person (or company) posts anything they want plunge - correct answersabrupt changeover to a new system without using one of the other conversion techniques first SQL - correct answersstructured query language kilobyte - correct answers1000 bytes MHz - correct answers1 million cycles per second encryption - correct answersmodifying data so that it cannot be deciphered with the encryption key firewall - correct answersa barrier between your computer and the other computers, it scans incoming data to be sure it meets security requirements and protects against hackers storage device - correct answersa classification for hardware which stores information in a computer, such as the hard drive or RAM application software - correct answersa classification for software which is designed to help a computer user accomplish a task programming software - correct answersa classification for software which is designed to help programmers