IT Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Global Positioning System; a collection of Earth-orbiting satellites
  2. 3. A group of adjacent binary digits that a computer processes as a unit to form a character
  3. 6. An area on a hard disk that contains a related set of files
  4. 7. Software programs designed to damage or do other unwanted actions on a computer
  5. 8. Powerful computer that often utilizes many processors to provide services to many users simultaneously over a network
  6. 9. A type of memory that retains information even after power is turned off
  7. 10. Read-Only-Memory, type of non-volatile memory used in computers
  8. 12. Facts that you collect, such as payroll
  9. 15. Entering, editing and formatting text
  10. 17. Collection of 1024 megabytes
  11. 18. Connects one piece of information to a related piece of information in an electronic document
  12. 21. The physical components of a computer
Down
  1. 2. Any software that covertly gathers user information through the user's Internet connection
  2. 3. A certain amount of RAM that is allocated as a temporary holding area so that the CPU can manipulate data before transferring it to a particular device
  3. 4. A group of interconnected computers capable of exchanging information
  4. 5. The process of rewriting parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a hard drive to increase the speed of access and retrieval
  5. 7. A central processing unit contained on a single integrated circuit
  6. 11. Program designed for a specific purpose, such as word processing or graphic design
  7. 13. Data storage device used for storing and retreiving digital information
  8. 14. Numbering system with only two values; 1 and 0
  9. 16. Binary digit
  10. 19. Random Access Memory; the amount of memory available for use by programs on a computer
  11. 20. An area of RAM reserved for data recently read from disk