Across
- 1. Processes power
- 6. its the mother board
- 7. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security standards designed to ensure that ALL companies that accept, process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment.
- 8. produces sound
- 10. The central Processing unit
- 11. Although some newer mice and keyboards includeUSB cables, most require PS/2 ports. Manufacturersgenerally color the keyboard port purple and themouse port.
- 12. Current Fire Wire ports transfer data as fast a400Mbps (megabits per second). (The next genera-tion of FireWire offers speeds as fast as 3,200 Mbps.)You can use FireWire to connect many different types of peripherals, including digital cameras anddigital video cameras.
Down
- 1. A socket on a computer used to connect a printer or other device via a parallel interface (eight data bits transferring simultaneously).
- 2. The CPU stores temporary information,such as data relating to open programs, inRAM. When the RAM reaches its capacity,the processor redirects the excess data toyour hard drive.
- 3. houses your graphic card
- 4. The serial port is a type of connection on PCs that is used for peripherals such as mice, gaming controllers, modems, and older printers.
- 5. BIOS (basic input/output system) is the program a personal computer's microprocessor uses to get the computer system started after you turn it on.
- 9. A Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a common interface that enables communication between devices and a host controller such as a personal computer (PC).