Objective:
Students will review for the comprehensive Chapter 5 exam, covering material presented in chapters 1 through 5.
The first half of this chapter describes input, the second half output. Students will be able to describe and explain the three categories of input hardware: keyboards, including terminals; pointing devices, including mice, touch screens, and pen-based devices; and source data-entry devices, ranging from scanners to bar-code readers, audio-input devices, image recognition, speech recognition, and sensors.
Students will be able to describe various kinds of output hardware—softcopy output, including varieties of display screens; hardcopy output, covering all kinds of printers; and mixed output, describing sound, voice, and video output devices.
Students will also be able to discuss the importance of ergonomics—what to do to avoid the negative health effects of computers.
Topics Discussed:
- Microchips
- Transistors
- Integrated circuits
- Chips
- Microprocessors
- Machine language
- System Unit
- Power Supply
- Motherboard
- Central Processing Unit
- The Machine Cycle
- Memory
- RAM
- ROM
- CMOS
- Flash Memory
- Expansion Cards
- Bus Lines
- Ports
- Secondary Storage
- Hard disks
- Optical disks
- Smart cards
- Cloud storage
Assignment:
- Complete the “Sharpening the Saw” Practice quiz, due Thursday of this week. The Practice quiz consists of 47 questions.
- Check your score afterwards, and if you got less than 80 percent, try, try again!
- Go for 100%! The more you retry, the better prepared you’ll be for the final quiz on Thursday, December 6th!
- Bear in mind that the Chapter 5 Quiz will consist of material from Chapters 1 through 5. This practice quiz contains only questions from Chapter 5, any of which could appear on Friday’s Quiz.
- Use your class time to review the questions and refresh your memories of everything we’ve studied to maximize your potential for a high score on the Chap. 5 Quiz!
Teacher Pacing Due Date: December 6h, 2018