CPT 115 Vocabulary Homework List

Each definition must be in the form of a complete sentence, using proper rules of grammar. Underline (or bold) the vocabulary term within each sentence.

For example:  A chat is a real-time typed conversation that takes place on a computer.
Chapter 2

  1. Animation
  2. Blog
  3. Browser
  4. Cable modem
  5. Chat
  6. Dial-up access
  7. Domain name
  8. Download
  9. DSL
  10. Email
  11. FTP
  12. GIF
  13. Home page
  14. HTTP
  15. Hyperlink
  16. Instant messaging
  17. IP address
  18. ISP
  19. JPEG
  20. Keyword
  21. MP3
  22. Newsgroup
  23. Plug-in
  24. Portal
  25. Search engine
  26. Spam
  27. Streaming video
  28. Upload
  29. URL
  30. Virtual reality
  31. VoIP
  32. Wiki
 Chapter 3

  1. Accounting software
  2. Button
  3. Command
  4. Computer Aided Design software
  5. Database software
  6. Edit
  7. Educational software
  8. Font
  9. Format
  10. Icon
  11. Legal software
  12. Menu
  13. Open source software
  14. Personal Information Manager
  15. Presentation graphics software
  16. Project management software
  17. Query
  18. Reference software
  19. Spreadsheet software
  20. Video editing software
  21. What-if analysis
  22. Window
  23. Word processing software


 Chapter 4

  1. Access time
  2. Arithmetic Logic Unit
  3. ASCII
  4. Bay
  5. Binary system
  6. Bit
  7. Byte
  8. CMOS
  9. COM port
  10. Control Unit
  11. Decoding
  12. EBCDIC
  13. Executing
  14. Expansion card
  15. Fetching
  16. FireWire (1394) port
  17. Machine cycle
  18. MIDI port
  19. Motherboard
  20. Multi-core processor
  21. Non-volatile memory
  22. Parallel port
  23. Pipelining
  24. RAM
  25. ROM
  26. SCSI port
  27. Serial port
  28. Storing
  29. System bus
  30. System clock
  31. Unicode
  32. USB port
  33. Volatile memory
  34. Word size
Chapter 5

  1. Bar code
  2. Biometric device
  3. Digital camera
  4. Flatbed scanner
  5. Gamepad
  6. Graphics tablet
  7. Joystick
  8. MICR
  9. Optical character recognition
  10. Optical mark recognition
  11. Optical mouse
  12. Pixel
  13. Pointing device
  14. Resolution
  15. Stylus
  16. Touch screen
  17. Touchpad
  18. UPC code
  19. Voice input
 Chapter 6

  1. CRT monitor
  2. Dot matrix printer
  3. Hard copy
  4. Impact printers
  5. Ink-jet printer
  6. Landscape orientation
  7. Laser printer
  8. LCD monitor
  9. Line/band printers
  10. Monochrome
  11. Non-impact printers
  12. Photo priner
  13. Plasma monitors
  14. Plotters
  15. Portrait orientation
  16. Soft copy
  17. Toner
 Chapter 7

  1. Burning
  2. CD-R
  3. CD-ROM
  4. CD-RW
  5. Cluster
  6. Cylinder
  7. Direct access
  8. DVD-ROM
  9. External hard disk
  10. Microfilm/microfiche
  11. Platter
  12. Reading
  13. Sector
  14. Sequential access
  15. Smart card
  16. Tape
  17. Track
  18. USB drives
  19. Writing
Chapter 8

  1. Backup utility
  2. BIOS
  3. Boot drive
  4. Booting
  5. Cold boot
  6. Defragmenting
  7. Disk scanner
  8. Driver
  9. File compression utility
  10. File manager
  11. Fragmented
  12. Kernel
  13. Linux
  14. Macintosh
  15. Multiprocessing
  16. Multiuser
  17. Network operating system
  18. Palm OS
  19. Performance monitor
  20. POST (power on self test)
  21. Queue
  22. Spooling
  23. Symbian OS
  24. Unininstaller
  25. UNIX
  26. Utility program
  27. Virtual memory
  28. Warm boot
  29. Windows CE
  30. Windows Mobile
  31. Windows Server 2008
  32. Windows Vista
 Chapter 9

  1. 3G network
  2. Analog signal
  3. Bandwidth
  4. Baseband
  5. Bluetooth
  6. Broadband
  7. Broadcast radio
  8. Bus network
  9. Client/server network
  10. Coaxial cable
  11. Digital signal
  12. DSL
  13. Ethernet
  14. Fiber-optic cable
  15. GPS
  16. IrDA
  17. ISDN
  18. LAN
  19. MAN
  20. Microwaves
  21. Modem
  22. Network card (NIC)
  23. Packets
  24. Peer-to-peer network
  25. Star network
  26. TCP/IP
  27. Token ring
  28. Twisted-pair cable
  29. WAN
  30. WAP
  31. Wi-Fi
  32. Wi-Max
  33. WLAN

 Chapter 10

  1. Back-end
  2. Completeness check
  3. Consistency check
  4. Data integrity
  5. Data warehouse
  6. DBMS
  7. Field/column
  8. File/table
  9. Front-end
  10. Multi-dimensional database
  11. Object-oriented database
  12. Organized information
  13. Primary key
  14. QBE
  15. Range check
  16. Record/row
  17. Relational database
  18. Relationship
  19. SQL
  20. Timely information
  21. Verifiable information
Chapter 11

  1. Audit trail
  2. Authentication
  3. Back door
  4. Biometric devices
  5. Ciphertext
  6. Computer ethics
  7. Cookie
  8. Copyright
  9. Cybercrime
  10. Decrypt
  11. Digital signature
  12. DoS attack
  13. Encryption
  14. Identification
  15. Information theft
  16. Piracy
  17. Possessed object
  18. Spam
  19. Spyware
  20. Trojan horse
  21. Virus
  22. Virus signature
  23. Worm
 Chapter 12

  1. Data-flow diagram
  2. Decision table
  3. Direct conversion
  4. Feasibility
  5. Gantt chart
  6. Parallel conversion
  7. Project management
  8. Prototype
  9. System analyst
 Chapter 13

  1. C
  2. C#
  3. C++
  4. CGI
  5. COBOL
  6. Dead code
  7. Director
  8. Dreamweaver
  9. Flash
  10. Flowchart
  11. HTML
  12. Java
  13. JavaScript
  14. Logic error
  15. Low-level language
  16. Machine language
  17. Procedural language
  18. Repetition control structure
  19. Selection control structure
  20. Sequence control structure
  21. SQL
  22. Structured design
  23. Syntax error
  24. Top-down design
  25. Visual Basic