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Define Accessibility Devices
Making a device or object easy for everyone with any capability easy to use and function. Some peripheral devices are created to allow accessibility for people with disabilities.
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What is an Adaptive Device?
This is a device that aids in the help of day to day life such as bathing dressing and toileting etc.
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What is Data Processing?
This is carrying out operations on data, on a computer to retrieve, transform and classify information.
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What is a Hard Disk Drive?
A HDD uses magnetic storage to store and fetch information using rapidly rotating disks covered in magnetic material.
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What is a Solid State Drive?
This is a storage device using flash memory which makes it much faster than SSD.
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What are SD Cards?
This is a memory card used in digital cameras and other portable devices to store images and videos etc.
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What is a Memory Stick?
A device that enables communication between devices and a host controller.
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What is an Optical Disk?
This is a storage device for a computer in the shape of flat plate which gets rotated to give access to all parts of the surface.
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What is magnetic tape?
This tape is used for recording sounds, pictures and data stored in a computer. It uses serial access which in turn makes it slow to process and use.
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What is an Oparating System?
This is a low level software that supports a computer's basic functions like scheduling tasks and peripherals.
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What is a Real Time Operating System?
This is an operating system that is used in the application of real time tasks that process data coming in without any buffer or lag.
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Define Single User Single Task Operating System
This is designed to manage the computer so one user can do one thing at a time.
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Define Single User Multitasking Operating System
Designed for a single user but can deal with many applications at one time.
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Define Multi User Operating System
Allows multiple users to access a computer to access a single system with one operating system on it.
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What are Device Drivers?
This is where the OD comes with generic device drivers that work with a wide variety of different peripheral devices.
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What is a Command Line Interface?
This is the type of human computer interface that relies on textual input and output.
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What is a Graphical User Interface?
This is a visual way of interacting with a computer using items such as windows, icons and menus etc.
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What is a Menu Based Interface?
This is the type of interface that lets you interact with a computer or device by working your way through a series of screens or menus that is generally found at the top of the screen.
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What is the Disk Utility?
This is the system ultitlity for performing disk and disk volume related tasks on MacOS. Which is designed to maintain the performance of a computers disk drive.
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What are network Utilities?
They are designed to analyse and manage your network to ensure that it is secure and working correctly.
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What are Registry Cleaners?
They are designed for windows systems to remove old, redundant registry entries. This helps improve system performance.
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What is a System Profile?
This is a detailed breakdown of the system, including hardware and software. This helps with deciding where a system needs upgrading and diagnosing problems with the system.
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