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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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