Page 3 - Computer Systems

What Is Abandonware?

Difficulty: Medium

Abandonware is a type of software that is no longer maintained by its owner. Since it is no longer maintained, no official support is available and...

What Is Trialware?

Difficulty: Medium

Trialware, also known as demoware, is a type of proprietary software that allows the user to use it free of charge for a limited period of time.

What Is Donationware?

Difficulty: Medium

Donationware, also known as donateware, is a type of software that is free to use, but encourages end users to support the creators or a third-party beneficiary by making a donation.

What Is Utility Software?

Difficulty: Easy

Utility software is a type of software specifically designed to help configure, manage, optimise, and maintain a computer.

What Is A Joystick?

Difficulty: Medium

A joystick, sometimes known as a flight stick, is an input device used to control the movement of a cursor on a computer screen, most commonly for video games.

What Is An Embedded Device?

Difficulty: Medium

An embedded device, also known as an embedded system, is a specialised device responsible for performing one specific function. It is embedded within a computer system, meaning...

What Is A Digital Camera?

Difficulty: Easy

A digital camera, also known as a digicam, is a hardware device that captures photos and records them as digital data. It does this by using an electronic...

What Is A Multifunctional Device?

Difficulty: Easy

A multifunctional device, also known as a multifunctional peripheral, or an all-in-one device, is a type of device that is capable of performing more than one specific function, like input and output.

What Is Bloatware?

Difficulty: Medium

Bloatware is a type of software that uses an excessive amount of disk space, memory, battery, and other system resources, reducing its usefulness and slowing the computer down.

What Is A Barcode Scanner?

Difficulty: Medium

A barcode scanner, also known as a barcode reader, or point-of-sale (POS) scanner is an input device that can capture information from a barcode.

What Is A Driver?

Difficulty: Medium

A driver, also known as a device driver, is a computer program without a user interface that enables the operating system and a hardware device to communicate with each other.

What Is An SD Card?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Secure Digital card. An SD card is a tiny, portable flash memory card used to store or transfer data between computers and other digital devices, like...

Top 15 Most Commonly Mispronounced Computer Terms

What Is A Webcam?

Difficulty: Easy

A webcam is an input device that connects to a computer to capture and record moving pictures and sound. It is most commonly used for video calls, remote work, online education, and taking photographs.

Top 15 Most Commonly Mispronounced Computer Terms

Difficulty: Easy

Some computer terms can easily be mispronounced. When talking about computers, mispronouncing computer terms can make it harder for you to be clearly understood and could result...

What Is A Plotter?

Difficulty: Medium

A plotter is a type of printer that is used for printing out vector graphics. Instead of printing individual dots on paper using a toner...

What Is A Graphics Tablet?

Difficulty: Medium

A graphics tablet, also known as a drawing tablet, is an input device that allows users to hand-draw graphics, illustrations, and animations by pressing the tip of a...

What Are Headphones?

Difficulty: Easy

Headphones are an output device worn in or around the ears that connect to the speaker port of a computer, laptop, smartphone, MP3 player, or by Bluetooth.

What Is A Microphone?

Difficulty: Easy

A microphone is an input device that picks up sound waves in the air and converts them into electrical signals. It then amplifies it as an analogue signal or converts it to a...

What Is An Operating System?

Difficulty: Easy

An operating system, sometimes abbreviated to an OS, is the most important piece of software installed on IT systems that allows the hardware to communicate with and manage all the programs on the computer.

What Is The Display Screen Equipment Regulations?

Difficulty: Medium

The Display Screen Equipment Regulations (DSER) is a piece of legislation introduced in 1992 which applies to workers that regularly use DSE continuously, like for several hours a day.

What Is The Data Protection Act?

Difficulty: Medium

The Data Protection Act (DPA) is a piece of legislation introduced in 1998 about how businesses and organisations handle and use personal data.

What Is The Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act?

Difficulty: Medium

The Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act (CDPA) is a piece of legislation introduced in 1988 to protect people's original work. This gives them a right to control how...

What Is The Computer Misuse Act?

Difficulty: Medium

The Computer Misuse Act (CMA) is a piece of legislation that was introduced in 1990 to protect against unauthorised access, theft, modification...

What Is Augmented Reality?

Difficulty: Medium

Augmented reality, abbreviated to AR, is the use of computer technology to create a real-world setting and combine digital content with the user's actual surroundings.

What Is Virtual Reality?

Difficulty: Medium

Virtual reality, abbreviated to VR, is the use of computer technology to create an imitation of a three-dimensional image that can be interacted with...

What Is OCR?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Optical Character Reading or Optical Character Recognition. OCR is a technology that recognises and extracts letters from a digital image or a pre-printed form."

What Is OMR?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Optical Mark Reading or Optical Mark Recognition. OMR is a way of entering in data by recognising pencil or pen marks on pre-printed forms.

What Is A Codec?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for a coder-decoder. A codec, sometimes known as a compressor-decompressor is an algorithm used to encode and decode data.

What Is MKV?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Matroska Video. MKV is an all-in-one video format that supports an unlimited number of picture, audio, and subtitle tracks in a single file.