1. What is a C.P.U.? Central Processing Unit. The computer brain.
2. What is a Mouse? The hand cursor.
3. What is the Monitor? The Video Screen.
4. What is a 3.5 drive? Holds the floppy diskette.
5. What is a Hard Drive? The Internal Storage.
6. What is a CD-ROM player? Plays Compact Discs.
7. What is the Internet? Worldwide user post office.
8. What is the World Wide Web? A central computer-postmaster.
9. What is a Byte? Eight bits of memory.
10. What is a Bit? The smallest piece of memory.
11. What is a Word Processor? Creates texts like book reports.
12. What is a Spreadsheet? Creates charts and graphs and calculates.
13. What is a Database? A dedicated record like a phone directory.
14. What is the Desktop? The work page.
15. What is a Folder? The grouping of texts or files.
16. What is E-mail? Letters in your computer mailbox.
17. What is Formatting? Preparing a diskette for use in your computer.
18. What is a cursor? The blinking insertion point on the screen.
19. What are Icons? Picture labels for programs.
20. What is the Menu Bar? The program menu at the top of the page.
21. What is a Modem? A telephone translator device.
22. What is an Operating System? The program that runs the computer.
23. What are pixels? The dots on the screen that produce an image.
24. What is a Pull-Down Menu? Holds program commands.
25. What is a Font? Types of print like Times or Subway.
26. What is Telecommunications? Transfer of data electronically.
27. What is the size of Standard paper? 8 1/2 by 11.
28. What is Output? Video, sound, printing, e-mail...
29. What is Input? Keyboards, diskettes, CDs, scanner, tapes...
30. Name a type of Printer? Laser, Laser Jet, Ink Jet, Desk Jet...
31. What is a U.R.L.? Universal Resource Locater.
32. What does HTTP mean? Hyper Test Transfer Protocol.
33. Name a Service Provider: AOL, MSN, NetZero, Juno...
The exam has only 33 questions (3 X 33 = 99). You automatically get one free point.
Your Final Exam counts for 10% of your overall grade.
Classroom Work = 45%
Timed Writings (W.P.M.) = 45%
October 27, 2000
Mr. Ward
Congratulations, your failure rate for the first nine-week grading period was below five percent. This is an excellent rate of student success in your class. It shows that you are concerned about your students and want them to learn. It also indicates that you are doing a wonderful job in teaching your subject area. You are appreciated for all that you do to help Windy Hill Middle School students succeed. We are fortunate to have you as a member of our faculty.
Thank,
Ms. Clemons