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