Computer And Operating System

1. Computer hardware is the physical pieces of a computer. It’s the equipment that makes up the computer.

2. A piece of computer hardware is a mouse. A mouse is a pointer for your screen. Clicking the left button, right button, or scrolling with the wheel performs different actions on your screen/with your software.

3. The CPU is the central processing part of your computer; the processor performs the instructions given from programs.

4. The system unit is the outside case of your computer. It holds the CPU and other circuitry/components that run your computer.

5. A modem is a device, either internal or external, that allows communication/transferring of data between two or more computers.

6. CPU is the part of your computer that processes

Computer software is also called computer programs or applications. Software is actually lines of code written by programmers; it is designed to perform tasks that the operator wants.

11. The operating system is the most basic software that runs the computer hardware. Other software programs would not work without the operating system.

12. System software is referring to the OS, or operating system, that manages the hardware, while applications refers to the software that performs tasks.

13. A browser program, like Chrome of Internet Explorer, allow you to views documents/images that are written in HTML.

14. Office 2013 has a new feature called Read Mode. Read Mode hides all tools, so that you can view more of the document on your screen. Excel now has a feature called Recommended Charts. It recommends which chart to use based on the information you want added to a chart.

15. Windows registry is a database used to store information/setting that Windows uses to reference users and what users can do, applications, and hardware. It is referenced by Windows continuously.

16. Windows registry stores low-level settings, information, configurations, keys, values, and

Simulation software is designed to model real life situations, or what if situations to assist companies in making business decisions. When the variables are changed in the simulation software, the software calculates and predicts what the outcome will be.

36. Artificial intelligence is a computer science working to enable computers to do what people normally do. Speech recognition, make decisions, and language translation. The Roomba is an example of a vacuum that is self-learning, because it learns how many rooms it needs to clean. Roomba detects the amount of dirt on the floor and powers up if it detects more, this is computer vision.

37. An URL, Uniform Resource Code, is the how, where, and what that you type into the search bar of your search engine, in order to get you where you are trying to get. The most common first part is http://, and that is the how you are getting there. The second part is the hostname, or the where you are going, and the third part is the what, it tells us exactly what we want to get off the internet. An example is https://www.hbonow.com/forgotpassword.

38. Domain names identify internet addresses. Generally a company, like Microsoft, owns the domain name Microsoft.com, which can lead to multiple