Grade 11 Term 4 Practice 4

A program that is used to start up your computer

and basic peripherals before booting up the

operating system.

• RAM

• FAQ

• BIOS

• ROM

Software used by the

operating system to

communicate with peripherals such as printers

• Drivers

• Hard drives

• Patches

• Service packs

A device that gives you time to shut down your

computer in the event of a power outage.

• GPS

• ROM

• ISP

• UPS

A criminal process of attempting to acquire personal details such as passwords by pretending to be a trustworthy entity.

• Trojan horse

• Phishing

• Worm

• DDOS

A small text file generated by a website and stored on your computer’s hard disk for later use by the website.

• Storage

• Cache

• Cookie

• Template

An e-mail address of somebody living in America.

• [e-mail]

• [e-mail]

• [e-mail]

• [e-mail]

An error message in Excel which indicates that a formula refers to a cell where the data type cannot be used in a calculation.

• #REF!

• #####

• #N/A

• #VALUE!

A collection of fields in Access that includes all the particulars of a specific person.

• Record

• Table

• Data

• Database

A copy of a file stored in another place.

• Defrag

• Storage

• Backup

• Archive

Adware is a type of virus.

• True

• False