Las Tutorial Sheet
Las Tutorial Sheet
1.What is a Computer?
2. What are the Functionalities of a computer?
3. Define Data and Information
4. Why Is A Computer So Powerful?
5. Why is a computer so powerful?
6. Does a Computer Know what to do?
7. What are the types of Personal and Large
Scale Computers?
8. List the Computer Components?
9. Define Hardware and Software
10. What is a motherboard?
11. What do the letters CPU stand for and what
is a main memory?
12. Explain primary and secondary memory
devices.
13. List any Input / Output Devices you know.
14. Explain Analog and Digital
15. Define Binary numbers
16. Once information is digitized, it is
represented and stored in what kind of system?
17. A single binary digit is called what?
18. How many Items can be Represented 6 bits?
19. Describe the term memory.
20. What is a magnetic tape?
21. What do the letters ROM and RAM stand
for?
22. Explain the terms ROM AND RAM.
23. Why is the CPU called the microprocessor?
24. What are the roles of the Arithmetic unit,
control unit and registers?
25. The speed of a CPU is controlled by…..
26. The speed is measured in…..
27. How does it mean when a monitor has high
resolution?
28. Define a Modem.
29. Define a network.
30. What are the two types of networks and
explain each one of them.
31. List the types of software and explain each
32. What Kind of softwares fall under
application software?
33. Define the term internet and what does it
mean and come from?
34. What was the term internet originally called?
35. Define the term protocol.
36. The software which manages Internet
communication follows a Suite of protocols
called…and what do the letters mean?
37. Describe the protocols listed in Q36.
38. what does the first name and the other
names mean in the address: renoir.unza.zm
39. Describe domain names.
40. Describe unique domain names..