ICT key terms - Part 6

A device that gives off a coloured light when a voltage is applied to it. Colour includes Red, Green, Blue, Orange, Yellow and White.

A free open-source operating system which is based on Unix.

Programming is similar to computer languages, except the instructions are running inside an application.

Stores the files that you are working on right now and also modules from the applications that you are using or have open.

I'm a network of computers which are connected together in a limited area, usually the same building or a couple of nearby buildings.

I'm a term used to describe a type of software that has been created with bad intent

It is generally thought of as one million bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.

I extend the ability to send text to also include the ability to send multimedia content. The content is often in the form of a photograph that you want to send to another phone.

I'm the main printed circuit board in the computer.

I am the standard format for compressing a sound sequence into a very small file, up to 12 times smaller.

This is a system that has all the elements of any computer namely CPU, Memory, Input/Output, but it is all on one (small) circuit card or even a single chip.

Computers are linked together in order for them to share and exchange data with each other.

A router will accept incoming data packets arriving from a connected Local Area Network

I'm required in every machine connected to the network.

A small laptop computer.

I mean to be connected to a network - either a local network such as a school intranet or the Internet.

I am a hand held pointing device that is classed as a manual input device.

An input device, I convert sound into an electrical signal.

I am similar to computer languages, except the instructions are running inside an application.