A106 Exam 1 (ECC, IB, Windows)

A data file contains instructions for a computer on how to perform a specific task.

Flash memory is similar to ROM except that it can be written to more than once.

____ are removable circuit boards that are inserted into slots on the motherboard to expand the capabilities of the motherboard.

____ technology is the same as that used in digital watches, or the time display on a microwave oven.

A monitor is a(n) ____ device.

A motherboard is a(n) ____________________, a rigid piece of insulating material with electrical paths on it that control specific functions.

A(n) ____________________ site is a website set up to look exactly like another website, but which does not actually belong to the organization portrayed in the site.

Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS are referred to as ____________________ environments.

The Windows 8 default Start screen displays tiles for Internet Explorer, Weather, and Photos, among others.

The Windows 8 Start bar appears when you point to the upper-right or lower-right corner of the screen.

You use Charms Tab buttons to identify and work with open desktop applications.

The most common pointing device is a ____.

To use Windows 8 you must have a ____ account.

A ____ is a program that causes a monitor to go blank or to display an animated design after a specified amount of idle time.

Pressing and holding the ____ keys together will display the Charms bar.

A tile that displays updated content is called a(n) ____________________.

You open the Search menu from the ____________________ bar.

You can ________ an application window's taskbar button to display a shortcut menu that includes a command to close the window.

Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 were all designed for touch-screen computers such as tablets.

File Explorer uses backslashes to separate locations in a file path.

When you delete a folder or file from the hard disk, it is permanently deleted immediately, and unrecoverable.

____ is/are new to Windows 8.

____ is a Microsoft service that provides up to 7 GB of online storage space for your files at no charge.

The ____________________ appears when you point to the upper-right or lower-right corner of the screen, and displays buttons for interacting with Windows 8 and accessing applications.

The File Explorer window is divided into two sections, called ____________________.

When working in any view besides Details view, you sort by using the ____________________ tab on the ribbon.

Popular search engines including Google, Bing, and Yahoo!

Keywords in a search are not case sensitive.

Claiming someone else's work as your own is an ethical and a legal violation.

The first part of a URL is the ____.

Each time you ____, a new webpage appears in the browser window.

A search engine results page displays links that are ____ at the top of the list.

The following is true of the History list: ____.

The text uses the phrase, ____________________ a search query, to mean either adding additional keywords to locate more specific information, or removing extraneous keywords that have led to incorrect/misleading results.

In the History list, within each site folder, the webpages you visited appear in ____________________ order.

The ____________________ window lets you change the page orientation of a page between portrait and landscape prior to printing it.

The number of these in a CPU help determine processor performance

Bus width is measured in these

A test to determine processor speed

High-speed, easily accessible storage space used by the CPU

A complex integrated circuit consisting of millions of electronic parts