CIS 105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Knowledge Management, Data Integrity, Adware

• School: ASU
• Department: Computer Information Systems
• Course: CIS 105
• Professor: Mc Carthy Matthew

Document Summary

An ipad is a consumption device, you don"t make anything on it. Microsoft surface is a creation device, you can make stuff with it like a. Main body of computer contains the mother board. Speed of cpu measured in clock rate. Bit is the smallest unit in a computer. Divide to translate machine code and write it, keyboard and it is an input device. Bus lines are the roads all over the motherboards. System software is a platform, turns itself on. Application software requires human intervention (des not work without system software or operating system) Operating systems configure the computer as soon as it turns on. My keyboard translates to 1"s and 0"s this is machine code or machine linux=mexicans. Almost always called a platform: windows, mac, linux, unix. Operating systems, (platforms), allow applications software"s to multitask. App software"s can run more than 1 app at a time. Cpu cache (ultra small, insanely fast memory), virtual memory, disk language storage.