CHAPTER 2: Information Technology and AISs
Across
- 3. Intangible part of computer. It is a computer instructions or data
- 5. An abbreviation of a primary memory that contains operating system instructions, application program instructions and user data.
- 9. A computer processor contained on an integrated-circuit chip
- 10. _____ Language of detailed instruction that computers can understand and execute
- 12. An abbreviation that provides several users access to common hardware, software, and computer files
- 14. _____ system is a set of software programs that helps a computer, file server, or network run itself and also the application programs designed for it
- 16. Printers that employ tiny wires in a print head to strike an inked ribbon and create tiny dots on a print page
- 17. Physical part of computer system
- 19. Acronym of a word that closely resembles a CD-ROM in that too is a 5-inch plastic disk that uses a laser to encode microscopic pits in its substrate surface
- 20. An acronym for “modulator-demodulator”
Down
- 1. Biometric scanner system that recognize fingerprints, irises, retinas, faces even ears.
- 2. Create printed output in much the same way as duplicating machines.
- 4. Biometric scanner system that recognize signatures, voices, or keystroke dynamics
- 6. Printers that create characters by distributing tiny dots of ink onto printer pages
- 7. Collection of facts or data
- 8. _____Documents that are the starting point for collecting accounting data in most AISs (time cards, packaging slips, survey forms)
- 11. Combines video, text, graphics, animation, and sound to produce multidimensional output
- 13. An abbreviation for the software that enables business and government agencies to transmit and manipulate financial data on organizational-wide basis and usually used by large organizations.
- 15. A device that accepts text and graphic output from a computer and transfers the information to paper
- 18. An abbreviation that has the ability to transmit voice grade signals or digital data over wireless communication channels