CPU - Answers Central Processing Unit is the primary data processing component in a computer
Monitor - Answers Hardware device that receives signals from a computer and displays them on a
screen
Mouse - Answers Hand-controlled electronic device used to manipulate the cursor on your computer
screen
USB Cable - Answers A type of cable that connects peripheral devices to a computer through a universal
serial bus port
Ethernet Cable - Answers A network cable that allows information to travel between wired devices
Hard Drive - Answers Hardware the stores all software and files on your computer and reads and writes
data onto a spinning magnetic or optical disk
Flash drive - Answers A small, portable plug-n-play storage device used for storing files that plugs into a
USB port
USB drive - Answers A portable plug-n-play storage device used for storing files that plugs into a USB
port
Thumb drive - Answers A small, portable plug-n-play storage device used for storing files that plugs into
a USB port
External storage device - Answers A portable plug-n-play device used as a backup storage device
Peripheral Device - Answers A variety of input or output devices that are used communicate with a
computer.
Printer - Answers An output device that usually produces text and graphics onto paper
Scanner - Answers An input device that produces a digital image file to be saved onto a computer
Speaker - Answers Output device that produces audio from your computer
Computer software - Answers A set of specific instructions executed by a computer
Word processing - Answers Software program allows you to create, edit, and print text documents
Database - Answers A type of software that stores an organized collection of data on a computer
Operating system - Answers Software that communicates with your computer's hardware and executes
all software programs on your computer
OSX - Answers Mac operating system