General Computer Question 1: What is acompu ter ?
General Computer Question 2: How do we use computers?
General Computer Question 3: How are computers used inBanking and Finance ?
General Computer Question 4: How are computers used inEducation ?
General Computer Question 5: How are computers used inMedicine ?
General Computer Question 6: How are computers used inBusiness ?
General Computer Question 7: How are computers used inEntertainment and Recreation ?
General Computer Question 8: How are computers used inthe workplace?
General Computer Question 9: What istelecommuting ?
General Computer Question 10: What isergonomics ?
General Computer Question 11: Are there

General Computer Question 12: What can we do aboutcomputer crime ?
General Computer Question 13: What is acomputer virus ?
General Computer Question 14: Is my data safe on a computer? How can it be protected?
General Computer Question 15: What isbacking up and why is it so important?
General Computer Question 16: What isSoftware Piracy?
General Computer Question 17: What is

General Computer Question 18: What isComputer Ethics ?
General Computer Question 19: How can I improve mycomputer skills ?
General Computer Question 20: What types ofcomputer jobs are available?
General Computer Question 21: Are therehealth considerations when using computers?
General Computer Question 22: What iscomputer-aided engineering (CAE) ?
General Computer Question 23: What iscomputer-aided manufacturing (CAM) ?
General Computer Question 24: What iscomputer robotics ?
General Computer Question 25: What isartificial intelligence ?
General Computer Question 26: What is aninformation system ?
General Computer Question 27: What is thesystem development cycle ?

Computer Hardware Question 1: What is Computerhardware ?
Computer Hardware Question 2: When was the computer developed?
Computer Hardware Question 3: What is a

Computer Hardware Question 4: What is a second generation computer ?
Computer Hardware Question 5: What is a third generation computer ?
Computer Hardware Question 6: What is a

Computer Hardware Question 8: What is amainfram e?
Computer Hardware Question 9: What is asuper comp uter ?
Computer Hardware Question 10: What is aminicompu ter ?
Computer Hardware Question 11: What is amicrocomputer (PC, desktop computer) ?
Computer Hardware Question 12: What is aworkstation ?
Computer Hardware Question 13: What is anembedded microprocessor ?
Computer Hardware Question 14: What iscomputer storage ?
Computer Hardware Question 15: What isinput ?
Computer Hardware Question 16: What is anoutput device?
Computer Hardware Question 17: What is thecentral processing unit (CPU) ?
Computer Hardware Question 18: What is acontrol unit ?
Computer Hardware Question 19: What is anarithmetic/logic unit (ALU) ?
Computer Hardware Question 20: What is theinstruction cycle (I-Cycle) and the execution cycle (E-Cycle) ?
Computer Hardware Question 21: What is theCPU clock?
Computer Hardware Question 22: What ismain memory?
Computer Hardware Question 23: What is asecondary storage system ?
Computer Hardware Question 24: What isdisk storage ?
Computer Hardware Question 25: What is ahard disk (fixed disk) ?
Computer Hardware Question 26: What is adiskette (floppy disk ?
Computer Hardware Question 27: What istape storage ?
Computer Hardware Question 28: What is anoptical disk ?
Computer Hardware Question 29: What isread-only memory (ROM)?
Computer Hardware Question 30: What is a

Computer Hardware Question 31: What is animage scanner ?
Computer Hardware Question 32: How does adisplay monitor work?
Computer Hardware Question 33: What is animpact printer ?
Computer Hardware Question 34: What is anonimpact printer ?
Computer Hardware Question 35: What is aline printer (also known as achain, band , ordrum printer

Computer Hardware Question 36: What is adot-matrix printer ?
Computer Hardware Question 37: What is aletter-quality printer ?
Computer Hardware Question 38: What is alaser printer ?
Computer Hardware Question 39: What is anink-jet printer ?
Computer Hardware Question 40: What is a

Computer Software Question 1: What issoftware ?
Computer Software Question 2: What issystems software ?
Computer Software Question 3: What isapplications software ?
Computer Software Question 4: What is

Computer Software Question 7: What ishexadecimal representation ?
Computer Software Question 8: What isASCII ?
Computer Software Question 9: What isEBCDIC ?
Computer Software Question 10: What do the termsbit, byte, andword refer to?
Computer Software Question 11: What is thehuman-computer interface (also known as thecomputer-user interface?
Computer Software Question 12: What isoptical character recognition (OCR) ?
Computer Software Question 13: What is a

Computer Software Question 14: What ismachine language ?
Computer Software Question 15: What isassembly language ?
Computer Software Question 16: What is ahigh-level language ?
Computer Software Question 17: What is a

Computer Software Question 19: What isobject-oriented programming (OOP) ?
Computer Software Question 20: What isobject-oriented authoring (OOA) ?
Computer Software Question 21: What isstructured programming ?
Computer Software Question 22: What is analgorithm ?
Computer Software Question 23: What is a

Computer Software Question 25: What isdebugging ?
Computer Software Question 26: What isbeta testing ?
Computer Software Question 27: What isend-user documentation ?
Computer Software Question 28: What is aninternet (web) browser ?
Computer Software Question 29: What isword processing ?
Computer Software Question 30: What is thecursor ?
Computer Software Question 31: What is amouse ?
Computer Software Question 32: What isdragging ?
Computer Software Question 33: What is thescroll bar and thescroll box ?
Computer Software Question 34: What is aruler line ?
Computer Software Question 35: What isbackground printing ?
Computer Software Question 36: What is amacro ?
Computer Software Question 37: What isdesktop publishing ?
Computer Software Question 38: What is aspreadsheet ?
Computer Software Question 39: What is acomputer graphic ?
Computer Software Question 40: What is adatabase ?
Computer Software Question 41: What are the types ofdatabases ?

Computer Communications Question 1: What isdata communications ?
Computer Communications Question 2: What doesupload anddownload refer to?
Computer Communications Question 3: What are thedata communications options ?
Computer Communications Question 4: What is amodem?
Computer Communications Question 5: What type of equipment do I need forcomputer communications ?
Computer Communications Question 6: What are thecommunications network types ?
Computer Communications Question 7: What is abridge ? Is it the same as a

Computer Communications Question 8: What exactly is theinternet ? Is it the same as theworld wide web ?
Computer Communications Question 9: What isemail ?
Computer Communications Question 10: What is a

Computer Communications Question 11: What isVoice Mail ?
Computer Communications Question 12: What is acomputer bulletin board ?
Computer Communications Question 13: What iscomputer teleconferencing ?
Computer Communications Question 14: What is

information. As we might expect from this definition, the fact that the computer is electronic means that it will be fast: it can
operate at electronic speed. But what do we mean when we say the computer can process information? The answer to that
question is not so simple. When computers were first used, they were used exclusively for calculating numbers. During that
period, information processing was defined as calculating numbers. Today, computers are not only used for calculations, but
also for creating and manipulating text and pictures. They are used to design bridges and spacecraft, to record a company's sales
and to keep track of customers, to create a school newspaper, or to estimate the cost of a new school. If computers can do all
these things, then it appears that we must define information processing in terms of what thecurrent crop of computers can do,
and that definition is constantly expanding.

In a remarkably short period of time the computer has changed our world. During the first half of the twentieth century,
economic growth in the world's industrial societies was fueled by large-scale manufacturing processes. Back then, most
manufacturing was involved in converting natural resources into products that were then sold to the public. During that period,
the industrialized countries of the world developed factories with assembly lines that were designed to efficiently build
everything from household appliances to automobiles, ships, and locomotives. The countries that were best able to adapt their
societies to produce these kinds of products became the "industrialized" societies and they dominated the world's economy.

But now, as we move into a new century, a relatively new invention, the computer, is leading to a shift in the world's power
structure. Economic growth is now more likely to be fueled by the processing of information, the storage and delivery of facts
and knowledge. We are now in theinformation age. While industrialized societies still build and sell the products of heavy
industry - like automobiles and tractors - the computer has become an indispensable element in their design, manufacture, and
distribution. Today, in the industrialized countries, much of the business and economic activity involves the computer. The
computer is now involved in design work, the management of money, and the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of
products. And, as the world's international markets become ever more competitive, the computer's role will continue to grow
steadily (also see the General Computer Question #2 below: How do we use computers?)