Wadebridge School - Understanding Computers Key Vocab

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Output:

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A device that provides data or information from the system (e.g. printer/screen).

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Process in a computer system:

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The step where the processor decides what to do with inputted data/instructions.

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Storage

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A component used to save documents for later use.

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Network: A series of devices connected to communicate.

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The term used to describe a series of devices connected together to communicate.

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Packet Switch

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Process to move data in a network by breaking it into smaller chunks.

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Time To Live

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Time a packet in a network has to reach its destination before deletion.

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Digital Divide

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Educational, economic, and social gap between those with access to technology and those without.

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Cloud

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Online space with large capacity and speed for storing and using documents and applications.

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Gigahertz

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Number of Fetch-Decode-Execute cycles a CPU performs per second in billions.

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Fetch: First step of the processor cycle collecting instructions from RAM.

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First step of the processor cycle collecting instructions from RAM.