BU111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Arpanet, User Interface, Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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Because it helps to avoid hackers and viruses. Helps to protect your own privacy also helps you to identify the real risks. You will know how to find information and use the web effectively. Enables you to make informed purchasing decisions, use computers in your career, and understand the many ethical, legal, and societal implications of technology today. Computers are used in businesses, design, education, law enforcement, medicine and science. Chapter 2 computer hardware know the people and dates. Data is a representation of a fact, figure or an idea. Information is data that has been organized and presented in a meaningful fashion) Temporary volatile memory: red-only memory (rom) Rom holds instructions the computer needs to start up. Peripheral ports: usb, thunderbolt, firewire- which is faster (thunderbolt is the fastest, hdmi (high-definition multimedia interface port, vga (video graphics array, dvi(digital video interface) Processing (manipulates, calculates or organize data into information: cpu measured in ghz (cycles/ second)
