Page 30 - Computer Terms

What Is The Difference Between Facebook and Twitter?

Difficulty: Easy

Facebook and Twitter are two large social media platforms that help individuals and businesses connect with each other.

What Is A Push Notification?

Difficulty: Medium

A push notification is a message directly sent to a computing device without a specific request from the client.

What Is End Of Life?

Difficulty: Medium

End of life (EOL) is used in IT to describe products that are no longer maintained or supported by the software developer or hardware manufacturer. It symbolises the last stage of the product lifecycle.

What Is An Internal Hard Drive?

Difficulty: Medium

An internal hard drive is a type of hard drive located inside a computer case. It is a key component of a computer since it stores the operating system.

What Is A Crash?

Difficulty: Easy

A crash occurs when a software application or operating system stops working properly and terminates.

What Is A Bug?

Difficulty: Medium

A bug is an unexpected issue in a software program that causes it to behave in an unintended way or crash.

What Is System Restore?

Difficulty: Medium

System Restore is a built-in utility in Windows that allows users to restore their system to a previous state. This allows unwanted changes that...

What Is Vertical Market Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Vertical market software is a type of software that is developed for a specific industry. It is a niche-market type of software.

What Is Horizontal Market Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Horizontal market software is a type of software that is not developed for specific industries and is generally useful in a wide range of industries.

What Is Dual-Booting?

Difficulty: Medium

Dual-booting, also known as multi-booting, is the act of installing and running multiple operating systems on a single computer.

What Is Stateful Packet Inspection?

Difficulty: Medium

Stateful packet inspection (SPI) is a firewall technology used to determine which packets to allow through the firewall. It filters packets based on state and context.

What Is A Blu-Ray Disc?

Difficulty: Medium

Blu-ray is an optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It is the same physical size as a CD or DVD, but offers more than...

What Is M-Commerce?

Difficulty: Easy

M-commerce (mobile commerce) refers to the buying and selling of products and services through wireless handheld devices, like smartphones and tablets.

What Is A Deprecated Feature?

Difficulty: Medium

A deprecated feature is a functionality that still exists in software and may still work but is being phased out and replaced, so usage is not recommended.

What Is An In-App Purchase?

Difficulty: Medium

An in-app purchase (IAP) is a purchase made within an app to buy additional content or features, or sign up for subscriptions.

What Is A Factory Reset?

Difficulty: Medium

A factory reset clears all user data and settings from a device and restores it to its original state, like when it was first taken out of the box.

What Is Drag and Drop?

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Drag and drop is a functionality which allows users to select an object or a section of text (dragging) and then move it (dropping) to a new location.

What Is Internet Surveillance?

Difficulty: Medium

Internet surveillance is the act of gathering, monitoring, and logging information from online activity by a third party, such as an ISP, social media site, search engine, the government, or hackers.

What Is The Client-Server Model?

Difficulty: Medium

The client-server model is a model of interaction between a server and a client. The client requests a service or resource from another program, known as the server.

What Is A CD-ROM?

Difficulty: Medium

A CD-ROM is a CD used as a read-only optical memory device. This type of CD can be read, but not written to by a computer with an optical drive.

What Is Wiretapping?

Difficulty: Medium

Wiretapping is the practice of attaching a listening device to a telephone line to secretly listen to conversations.

What Is A Text Editor?

Difficulty: Easy

A text editor is a program that allows users to open, edit, and view plain text files. Text editors are usually included as built-in programs.

What Is Image Scaling?

Difficulty: Medium

Image scaling is the process of resizing a digital image, either by making it smaller (scaling down) or making it larger (scaling up).

What Is A Floppy Disk?

Difficulty: Medium

A floppy disk is a type of disk storage device capable of holding electronic data. They are made out of plastic or metal and can hold 100 KB to 1.44 MB of data.

What Is A Primary Storage Device?

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Primary storage is a type of data storage that is directly accessible by the CPU. It is smaller in size than secondary storage and is a key component of a computer for it to function.

What Is A Secondary Storage Device?

Difficulty: Medium

Secondary storage, also known as auxiliary storage, refers to non-volatile storage and long-term storage devices that are not always directly accessible by a computer.

What Is Storage Capacity?

Difficulty: Medium

Storage capacity refers to the amount of data a storage device can hold. It is precisely measured in kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes.

What Is A Markup Language?

Difficulty: Medium

A markup language is a text-encoding system used to define the structure and formatting of a document.

What Is A Virtual Machine?

Difficulty: Medium

A virtual machine (VM) is an emulated computer system created using software on a physical computer often used for testing purposes and backing up data.