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What Is A Taskbar?

Difficulty: Medium

A taskbar is a bar located at the bottom of a display of a graphical user interface (GUI) that shows which windows are currently open and allows quick access to favourite applications.

What Is A Soft Copy?

Difficulty: Easy

A soft copy is an electronic copy of a document that can be viewed on a phone, tablet, or computer. Unlike a hard copy, a soft copy does not...

What Is A Screenshot?

Difficulty: Easy

A screenshot is a digital image that shows the contents of a computer screen at a given point in time. It is created by the operating system and may include the whole screen or a section of it.

What Is Web Application Development?

Difficulty: Medium

Web application development is the process of building, designing, and testing web applications that will be stored on web servers and provided to other users over the internet.

What Are System Requirements?

Difficulty: Easy

System requirements refer to a list of specifications a device must have in order to run software or hardware needed to perform tasks.

What Is A Web Application?

Difficulty: Medium

For new users, using a computer can sound hard at first, especially without much experience of using a computer. Below are 15 general computer tips for new users.

15 General Computer Tips For New Users

Difficulty: Easy

For new users, using a computer can sound hard at first, especially without much experience of using a computer. Below are 15 general computer tips for new users.

What Is Rich Text Format?

Difficulty: Medium

Rich text format (RTF) is a file format that combines the features of files found in a full word processor with plaintext files.

What Is Non-Volatile Memory?

Difficulty: Medium

Non-volatile memory is a type of memory that retains its data even after the power is turned off. This means that power is only required to read and write data, not to maintain the storage state.

What Is The Difference Between IT and ICT?

Difficulty: Easy

IT (information technology) and ICT information and communication technology) look similar, but they are two different fields.

Top 10 Most Commonly Miswritten Computer Terms

Difficulty: Easy

Over time, there have been some computer terms that are commonly miswritten. As technology advances, the terminology used may also advance.

What Is A Network Interface Card?

Difficulty: Medium

A network interface card (NIC) is a hardware component that provides networking capabilities to a computer, allowing a computer to connect to a network.

What Is Flash Memory?

Difficulty: Medium

Flash memory is a type of non-volatile memory that can be read from and written to. It is fast to read and write to and can be written to and overwritten like RAM, but is not as fast as RAM.

What Is A Storage Device?

Difficulty: Medium

A storage device is a piece of hardware used to store data. In order for a computer to save or remember settings, data, or information, a storage device is required.

What Is A RAW File?

Difficulty: Medium

A RAW file is an uncompressed and unprocessed photo captured by a digital camera. Due to lossless quality, RAW files are usually large in size.

What Is TIFF?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Tagged Image File Format. TIFF is an image file format used to store raster graphics. They allow users to tag up extra information and data, and support layers, transparency, and multi-image files.

What Is GDPR?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for General Data Protection Regulation. GDPR is a European law which protects the personal data of individuals in the EU and introduces rules on how personal data is used by businesses and organisations.

What Is A Graphics Processing Unit?

Difficulty: Medium

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a processor designed to render all graphics and images on the computer screen.

What Is Data Logging?

Difficulty: Medium

Data logging is the process of capturing and storing data over time to analyse activity, trends, and predict future events.

What Is Data Mining?

Difficulty: Medium

Data mining is the process of searching and analysing large amounts of data to discover patterns, trends, and other valuable information.

What Is The British Standards Institute Codes Of Practice?

Difficulty: Medium

The British Standards Institute Codes Of Practice is a set of guidelines for fulfilling the requirements set in the Equality Act, which are putting proper provisions in place to ensure that IT systems are accessible.

What Is A Computer Case?

Difficulty: Easy

A computer case is the housing that organises and protects all the components inside a computer, such as the motherboard, hard drive, optical drive, power supply, RAM, and CPU.

What Is A Tablet Computer?

Difficulty: Easy

A tablet is a handheld, portable computer with a touchscreen display that runs off battery power. It is larger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop, making it easy to carry around and transport.

What Is An All-In-One Computer?

Difficulty: Easy

An all-in-one computer is a type of computer that integrates the internal components of the system into the same case as the monitor, taking up less room than desktop computers with a tower case.

What Is Alpha Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Alpha software is a pre-release version of software in the early testing phase. It has enough basic functions to be used, but lacks most of the features that will be included in the final version.

What Is Customer Relationship Management?

Difficulty: Medium

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) refers to strategies and technologies that businesses use to analyse and manage relationships with customers and customer interactions.