Introduction to Computing 5-6 pm

What is a stationary pointing device with a ball on its top or side?

• Trackball

• Optical Reader

• Graphics Tablet

• Ink-jet Printer

What is the computer or mobile device's capability to distinguish spoken words?

• Voice or Speech Recognition

• Trackball

• USB Adapter

• Spyware

What device uses a light source to read characters, marks, and codes and then converts them into digital data that a computer can process?

• Optical Reader

• Graphics Tablet

• Motherboard

• Disk Defragmenter

What form of characters and graphics is created by spraying tiny drops of liquid ink onto a piece of paper?

• Ink-jet Printer

• Impact Printers

• Multimeter

• Search Tool

What form of characters and graphics is created on a piece of paper by striking a mechanism against an inked ribbon that physically contacts the paper?

• Impact Printers

• 32 Bit Operating System

• Backup Tool

• Screen Saver

What electronic plastic board detects and converts movements of a stylus or digital pen into signals that are sent to the computer?

• Graphics Tablet

• Uninterruptible Power Supply

• File Transfer Protocol

• Software Developer

What is the main circuit board of the computer?

• Motherboard

• Control Unit

• Memory

• CMOS Technology

What component of the processor directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer?

• Control Unit

• Memory

• Access Time

• USB Adapter

What consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed by the processor, data needed by those instructions, and the results of processing the data?

• Memory

• CMOS Technology

• Access Time

• Screen Saver

What uses battery power to retain information when the power to the computer is off?

• CMOS Technology

• Access Time

• Backup Tool

• Trackball