1. Welcome to Technology Application Jeopardy

2. Hardware More Hardware Jobs & Software Computer Types Storage 100 200 300 400 500 600 100 200 300 400 500 600 100 200 300 400 500 600 100 200 300 400 500 600 100 200 300 400 500 600

3. What 3 things does a computer do? Input, Processing, Output 100

4. What is the largest circuit board in the PC? Motherboard 200

5. What letter represents the diskette drive of the computer and what letter represents the hard drive? A and C 300

6. What does RAM stand for? Random Access Memory 400

7. Name 4 computer hardware components Monitor, mouse, keyboard, hard disk, diskette drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, modem, printer, scanner, speaker, CPU, motherboard, power supply, bus & expansion slots 500

8. What does CPU stand for and what is it often called? Central Processing Unit The “brain” of the computer 600

9. It is lost. 100 What happens to a document in RAM when the power is turned off?

10. Name two common input devices. Keyboard, mouse, scanner, touch screen, CD-ROM drive 200

11. Name two types of printers. laser inkjet plotter 300

12. Name four mouse functions. point click double click drag right click right drag scroll 400

13. How is the speed of a computer measured? megahertz or gigahertz 500

14. What is the difference between gigabyte and gigahertz? Gigabyte measures storage. Gigahertz measures speed. 600

15. What Operating System Software do we have in our lab? Windows XP 100

16. What do Network Administrators do? They ensure that a company’s network operates efficiently. 200

17. What do Help Desk Professionals do? They provide help to users of applications. 300

18. What do Web site Designers and Programmers do? They decide what websites will look like and write the code to create them. 400

19. What is software? Instructions that tell your computer what to do 500

20. What are the two types of software? Operating System Software and Application Software 600

21. What type of computer would a large business use to do huge numbers of relatively simple computations. mainframe 100

22. What category of computer do we have in our lab? microcomputer 200

23. What category of computer is the fastest problem solver? supercomputer 300

24. What kind of computer is used by more that one person and is now called a workstation and server. minicomputer 400

25. What is the most commonly used microcomputer called? personal computer 500

26. Name the 4 categories of computers from largest to smallest: Supercomputer Mainframe Minicomputer Microcomputer 600

27. Personal computers operate through a number of on/off switches. What are they called? binary digits or bits 100

28. What is a string of 8 bits called? byte 200

29. What does a zero in binary code represent? A switch that is off 300

30. How many bytes are in a Kilobyte? 1 thousand 400

31. How many bytes are in a Gigabyte? 1 billion 500

32. What term would you use for a million bytes? Megabyte 600