BTM 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fot, Royal Television Society, Thermal Printing

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Business Technology Management
• Course: BTM 200
• Professor: Carolina

Document Summary

Topics: fcts of computer, data versus info, bits & bytes, input devices, output devices, processing, Computer: data processing device performing 4 fcts: gather data (allow users to input data, process data into information, outputting data and information, storing data and information. Information: data that has been organized/presented in meaningful way. Work with # (unique combination): binary language: 0 and 1 (binary digits, bit) -> 8 bit= 1 byte. Used for: tell computer what to do, represent data/info to input/output. Units: kb= 1024bytes, mb= 1 million bytes, gb 1 billion bytes, tb 1 trillion bytes. To process data: it needs combination of hardware/software: Hardware: part of the computer you can physically touch (shell) Software: computer programs: application software: set of programs used on a computer to do tasks (ex: writing research paper, system software: set of programs enable hardware/application software to work together.