MindTap Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Multiple computers and devices connected together by home users.
  2. 7. Set of words, abbreviations, and symbols that enables a software developer to communicate instructions to a computer or mobile device.
  3. 9. Transmission media that transmits multiple signals simultaneously.
  4. 13. Term used to refer to data.
  5. 14. Area of memory that stores the contents of frequently used data or instructions.
  6. 16. A popular, multitasking UNIX-based operating system that runs on a variety of personal computers, servers, and devices.
  7. 18. The electronic component of a computer that interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer.
  8. 19. A set of hardware, software, data, people, and procedures that work together to produce information.
  9. 21. The amount of data, instructions, and information that can travel over transmission media.
  10. 22. A set of programs that coordinates all the activities among computer or mobile device hardware.
  11. 24. Data that has been processed into a useful form.
  12. 27. Type of storage medium that consists of a flat, round, portable disc made of metal, plastic, and lacquer that is written and read by a laser.
  13. 28. Radio waves that provide a high-speed signal transmission.
  14. 31. A network that connects computers and devices in a limited geographical area such as a home, school, or office building, also called local area network.
  15. 32. Device that initiates an instruction to transmit data, instructions, or information.
  16. 34. Number system that has just two unique digits, 0 and 1, called bits.
Down
  1. 1. Programming language in which the software developer writes using English-like words that tell the computer what to accomplish and how to do it.
  2. 3. smallest unit of data the computer can process. Short for binary digit.
  3. 4. An object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.
  4. 5. The component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer.
  5. 6. Representation of data using only two discrete states: on (1) and off (0).
  6. 8. The application of human intelligence to computers.
  7. 10. Eight bits grouped together as a unit.
  8. 11. Device that accepts the transmission of data, instructions, or information.
  9. 12. A small program that tells the operating system how to communicate with a specific device.
  10. 15. Storage device that includes one or more inflexible, circular platters that use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information.
  11. 17. Definition:
  12. 20. A network that connects computers and devices in an individual’s workspace using wired and wireless technology, also called personal area network.
  13. 23. The electronic component of a computer that interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer.
  14. 25. A multitasking operating system developed in the early 1970s by scientists at Bell Laboratories.
  15. 26. Memory chips that can be read from and written to by the processor and other devices.
  16. 29. Continuous (wave form) signals.
  17. 30. A network standard that specifies no central computer or device on the network (nodes) should control when data can be transmitted.
  18. 33. A network that covers a large geographic area (such as a city, country, or the world) using a variety of wired and wireless transmission media, also called wide area network.