Welcome to Office Jeopardy
(Essential Computing Concepts edition)
Grauer and Barber
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A network of networks
What is the Internet?
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Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator, for example
What is a browser?
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The process of encoding data so
that it is not in original form
when sent across the Internet
What is encryption?
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Company or organization that
provides access to the Internet
What is an ISP (Internet
Service Provider)?
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A small text file written to your
computer each time you visit a
Web site
What is a cookie?
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CPU
What is the Central
Processing Unit?
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WYSIWYG
What is What You See is
What You Get (“wizzywig”)?
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ROM
What is Read Only Memory?
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GUI
What is Graphical User
Interface (“gooey”)?
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FTP
What is File Transfer
Protocol?
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Coding scheme in which each
combination of 8 bits represents
a different character
What is ASCII (pronounced
“as key”)?
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The company that provides the
Pentium family of chips
What is Intel?
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It is always designated as
drive A
What is the floppy disk
drive?
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The number of pixels displayed
at one time; e.g., 1024 x 768
What is resolution (of a
computer monitor)?
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Use this to double the warranty
of a new PC
What is a credit card?
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The operating system that
preceded Windows
What is DOS (or MS-DOS)?
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The four core applications in
Microsoft Office
What are Word, Excel,
Access, and PowerPoint?
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An actively infectious
program that attaches itself
to a file
What is a (computer) virus?
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Program used to move and copy
files, and which provides a
hierarchical view of your system
What is Windows Explorer?
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Used to organize the files
stored on a system
What are folders?
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The values in the binary system
What are zero and one?
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The number of bits in a byte
What is 8?
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The exact number of bytes in one
kilobyte
What is 1,024 (210)?
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Approximately one million bytes
What is a megabyte?
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Approximately one billion bytes
What is a gigabyte?
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