CS Review - AR

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Across
  1. 2. A piece of software that holds start up instructions and helps the cpu communicate with the other devices
  2. 4. ____ Software is a program or tool that performs specific tasks to enhance productivity, efficiency, functionality, or maintenance of a computer system.
  3. 6. The device _____ is a piece of software that enables communication between an operating system or application and hardware or peripheral devices.
  4. 7. A text encoding system with 128 letters, numbers and symbols.
  5. 9. The _____bridge chip delivers data between the CPU, graphics card, and data card.
  6. 10. Eight bits that operate as a unit.
  7. 11. The _____bridge chip handles communication between the computer and its peripheral devices, like things connected through USB.
  8. 12. Memory that stores data required for the CPUs current instructions.
  9. 13. The _____ is the part of the CPU that handles math and boolean logic decicion making.
Down
  1. 1. ____ Engineering is the tactic of manipulating, influencing, or deceiving a victim in order to gain control over a computer system, or to steal personal and financial information.
  2. 3. The _____ drive is a piece of computer hardware that reads and writes data on optical discs.
  3. 4. A method of encoding that can be used for ALL scripts.
  4. 5. A unit for measuring bytes, used to describe one billion bytes.
  5. 8. The _____ Unit controls the cpu, and sends instruction to the Arithemetic logic unit.
  6. 10. An electronic pathway through which data can be transferred.