Nt1210 Unit 2 Assignment 2

Edward Scruggs Unit 2 assignment 2 8/29/15 Unit 2 assignment 2: Computer Basics Review

1. A 2. B 3. C,D 4. C,D 5. D 6. D 7. B 8. B 9. A,C,D 10. B,D 11. D 12. A,C 13. C 14. A 15. A,D 16. C,D 17. D 18. C 19. A 20. D
Key Terms
Computer networking – the gerund form of the term computer network.
Computer network – a combination of many components that work together so that many different devices can communicate.
Application – a function on any kind of computer or electronic device that is useful to the user, which can give the user a reason to want to own and use the device. More specifically, software that performs some useful function for the user.
Email – electronic mail. An application in which the user can type text and attach other files to create an electronic equivalent of a postal letter, and send the email to another person using his email address.
Voice call – a more modern term for a telephone call that does not use the word telephone, instead emphasizing the fact that the traffic that flows between the end points is voice.
Video frame – a grid of pixel locations of a chosen width by height that contains the lights/colors to be shown in a video at a single point in time.
Web server – software that stores web pages and web objects, listens for requests for those pages, and sends the contents of those pages/objects to clients. This term refers to both the software and hardware on which it executes.
Web browser – software controlled directly by a user that requests web pages from a web server, and after receiving the page, displays the web page in a window. This term refers to both the software and hardware it executes.
Web address – text that identifies details about one object in a network so that a client can request that object from a server. An informal term