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Computer Terminology Questions

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Total questions: 5845

What is a browser cookie?
Popularity: 577

What is the difference between SDRAM and DDR RAM?
Popularity: 365

What is RSS?
Popularity: 298

What is the difference between a computer process and thread?
Popularity: 271

What is the difference between computer science and information technology?
Popularity: 254

What are megabytes and megabits?
Popularity: 246

What is the difference between multitasking multiprogramming and multiprocessing?
Popularity: 227

What are the different types of booting?
Popularity: 220

What is the difference between a cd minus R and a cd plus R?
Popularity: 217

What is difference between JVM and JRE?
Popularity: 208

What is editing?
Popularity: 199

What is a POP mail server?
Popularity: 192

What does cache memory mean and what is the simplest way to learn how to use a computer?
Popularity: 168

What is a webserver?
Popularity: 160

What is spam?
Popularity: 156

What is the difference between computer organization and computer architecture?
Popularity: 152

What is the difference between Information Systems and Information Technology?
Popularity: 148

What is Von Newman's computer architecture?
Popularity: 145

What is a VST Plug-In?
Popularity: 143

What is EPS?
Popularity: 143

What is an IR port?
Popularity: 142

What is the difference between distributed systems and systems connected in a network?
Popularity: 140

What does PC3200 stand for?
Popularity: 140

What is an ISP?
Popularity: 138

What is the difference between process and services?
Popularity: 137

What is data encryption?
Popularity: 136

What is the difference between an internal and external clock?
Popularity: 135

Why is a CD case called a jewel case?
Popularity: 134

What is meant by server in an organisation?
Popularity: 131

What is the difference between a process and a program?
Popularity: 131

What is a URL?
Popularity: 130

What do MB and KB mean?
Popularity: 128

What are the paper equivalents of a byte megabyte etc?
Popularity: 128

What does FTP stand for?
Popularity: 126

What is the difference between OS and operating environment?
Popularity: 125

How will you know the time taken by each process or program on Unix?
Popularity: 124

What is ROM in a computer?
Popularity: 124

What is contained in RAM memory?
Popularity: 124

Where can you learn the terms associated with video and graphics cards?
Popularity: 124

What is the difference between computer networks and distributed databases?
Popularity: 123

Where can you find ASCII codes?
Popularity: 123

What is an 'Open URL'?
Popularity: 120

What are templates?
Popularity: 120

What is a 'ubertech'?
Popularity: 119

Why is the process of starting up the computer called booting?
Popularity: 118

What does protocol mean?
Popularity: 117

What is meant by 'information technology'?
Popularity: 114

What are servers?
Popularity: 114

What is meant by data processing?
Popularity: 112

How does the concept of process and program apply in single tasking systems as opposed to multitasking systems?
Popularity: 110

What is the difference between b tech in computer science b tech in information technology or b tech in computer science and information technology?
Popularity: 109

What is phishing?
Popularity: 106

What are Geeks and Bloggers?
Popularity: 106

What is an ERP and how is it useful to any company when implemented?
Popularity: 105

What is administrator priveleges when trying to install a download?
Popularity: 105

What does it mean to 'mount a drive within a backup'?
Popularity: 104

What is a computer expert called?
Popularity: 101

What is the term for converting computer data from one format and saving it in another?
Popularity: 100

What is the XDA acronym and it's technology?
Popularity: 99

What's a computer virus?
Popularity: 99

What are code crackers?
Popularity: 98

Technology comes from the Greek word technos which means what?
Popularity: 95

What is a dll and where is it found?
Popularity: 94

What is the difference between computer science and IT?
Popularity: 94

What is quantum computing?
Popularity: 93

You are a computer administrator but your pc still keeps telling you that you need to be an adminstrator to install software what is wrong?
Popularity: 93

What is a far pointer?
Popularity: 92

Why we called ROM a temporary memory?
Popularity: 92

What is a huge pointer?
Popularity: 90

What is the difference between distributed computing and computer networks?
Popularity: 89



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