CHAPTER 2
Across
- 3. A device that accepts text and graphic output from a computer and transfers the information to paper
- 6. collection of facts or data
- 7. Biometric scanner system that recognize signatures, voices, or keystroke dynamics
- 9. an acronym for “modulator-demodulator”
- 11. Biometric scanner system that recognize fingerprints, irises, retinas, faces even ears.
- 12. _____ 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
- 13. 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
- 14. 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.
- 16. printers that employ tiny wires in a print head to strike an inked ribbon and create tiny dots on a print page
- 18. intangible part of computer. It is a computer instructions or data
Down
- 1. create printed output in much the same way as duplicating machines.
- 2. Ability to transmit voice grade signals or digital data over wireless communication channels
- 3. ____ Language of detailed instruction that computers can understand and execute
- 4. documents are the starting point for collecting accounting data in most AISs (time cards, packaging slips, survey forms)
- 5. a computer processor contained on an integrated-circuit chip
- 8. printers that create characters by distributing tiny dots of ink onto printer pages
- 9. Combines video, text, graphics, animation, and sound to produce multidimensional output
- 10. physical part of computer system
- 15. a primary memory that contains operating system instructions, application program instructions and user data.
- 17. Provide several users access to common hardware, software, and computer files