Study Guide (Final)
Lesson 3:
Web Browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla, Safari
Search Engines: Google, Bing, Yahoo
Home Page Vs Website: Homepage is the starting page of a website and a
website is a collection of web pages.
Difference Between HTTP and HTML: HTML is the language used to
create webpages and HTTP is the rules they go by to create a web page.
WWW is a small portion of the internet. The Internet consists of thousands
of interworking networks.
Domains:
.edu-Academic Institution
.gov-Government
.net-Network
.org-Non-Profit Organization
Lesson 4:
VPN-Virtual Private Network that allows users to use a secure browser
while using the internet.
Piracy-Downloading software and music without permission.
Open Source is free to customize and modify
Proprietary/Commercial cost a fee to change or
modify
Phishing-Using the internet to trick people into giving personal information.
Cybercrime: Breaking federal crimes that are private over the internet
Lesson 5:
CPU-Central Processing Unit: Hardware component that does most of the
processing.
Battery: Circle on the motherboard that gives life to the computer
Expansion slots: The beige slots on the motherboard that allow you to add
components.
BYTE-A group of eight bit.
Kilobyte-1,024 bytes (a page of text).
Megabyte-1,024 kilobytes or 1,048,576 bytes (color image file).
Gigabyte-1,073,741,824 bytes (a compressed movie).
Terabyte-Approximately one trillion bytes (a library of hundreds of movies).
Lesson 6:
-Input devices: devices that input information into a device
-Mouse, Keyboard, Webcam, Touch Pad
-Output Devices: produce or display information from a device
-Monitor, Speaker, Printer
Peripheral: Hardware components that doesn’t come with the computer,
but you can purchase it to go with the computer
Lesson 7:
● Page Break: A Page Break or hard page break is a code inserted by
a software program such as word processor that tells the printing
device where to end the current page and begin the next
● Calculate the average or sum. Uses cells to organize information.
● Cell-smallest unit of storage in a spreadsheet.
Lesson 8:
● Make eye contact with viewers
● Make your voice heard
● Don’t have you’re back facing the audience
● Light background/Dark Text - Dark Background/Light Text
● Make sure your slides are not wordy
● Make slides easy to read
Lesson 9:
Network Topology: The arrangement or how a computer network is setup
LAN: Local Area Network: Buildings close together
WAN: Wide Area Network: Buildings are far apart
TREE LAN
Lesson 10:
ISP: Internet Service Provider-Company that manages and sell internet
TCP/IP- TCP / IP is the operating protocol of the Internet. Each computer
has an IP or TCP address. These are the rules on how your information is
sent across the internet.
Lesson 11:
Digital Divide: The people who have technology vs the people who don’t.
One Laptop Per Child: Every child gets a laptop and that will close the gap.
We should close the gap to educate others, cure diseases, and help with
communication
Lesson 12:
Open Source-Free operating system to copy and customize
-Linux, Ubuntu
Proprietary Software: Fee from Companies that produce operating systems
that cost
-Windows, Mac
Multitasking-Running more than one thing at a time.
Lesson 13:
Alpha Test-First test of software development
Beta Test-Second test of software development
Gold Master: Final Product given to the public
Coding Languages: C++, Java, Python, C#
JavaScript: Most used scripting languages
Python: Basic Scripting Language
Lesson 14:
Careers in I.T.:
Software Developer
Hardware Engineer
Entry Level-The starting level of a position in I.T.
Essay Question: Remember to answer all of the essay
questions
• What services do ISP’s provide? Describe two ISP’s?
• ISP's, also known as Internet Service Providers
• they provide connectivity to the internet, allowing you to
access the World Wide Web
• Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Frontier
● Storage and Memory?
o Storage is permanent and Memory is temporary
o Storage is like your hard drive and Memory is like RAM
● GUI?
o Graphical User Interface
o Helps you interact with the computer better
o Images and logos on your desktop
● Global Digital Divide
o Haves vs Have Nots
o We should close the gap to educate others, and cure
diseases.
● Reasons why you would use computer networking
o Browse the web
o Communication
o Share and Receive information
