Review Exam 1

For the first exam you must be familiar with the terms and information found in Mr. Fierro's blog posts:

Introducing Computer Systems

Parts of a Computer System

Do you agree with the speaker's view that young adults' minds are being "digitally rewired"? Explain your answer.

Why does the narrator in the video argue that young people dislike a single-function device such as a wristwatch?

Why did Sir Tim Berner's Lee decide to make the World Wide Web free when he created it at CERN?

Why is it important to link information using the World Wide Web? What are the benefits of having instant access to information?

Name 3 input devices and 3 output devices. Examples: Output - Printer, speakers, headphones. Input - Keyboard, Mouse, digital camera.

Know the units of measure for computer memory and storage. 

• Kilobyte (KB)
• Megabyte (Mb)
• Gigabyte (GB)
• Terabyte (TB)

For today's assignment you will have to define all of these terms using the World Wide Web as a tool.


The difference between analog and digital:

Random Access Memory (RAM) -

Read-Only Memory (ROM) -

World Wide Web –

Data (computer) – 

Program - 

Hypertext – 

Hardware – 

Software – 

Title (resource) – 

Creator (resource) – 

Subject (resource) -

Publisher (resource) -

Contributor (webpage) –

Format (resource) -

MP3 – 

Cyberbully - 

Database - 
 
Desktop - 

E-mail - 

Home page - 

Keyword - 

Password - 

Paste - 

Search Engines - 

URL Address - 
 
User name - 

File format –

Hacker -

Keyboard -

Retrieve (document) -