Do Not Think Of Getting 1 In ICT if You Do Not Know These Acronyms (Part 2). This is the second series to test how well BECE candidates are prepared for the impending ICT examination. Also, this write-up will arm candidates with knowledge about some ten basic acronyms in ICT.
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10 ICT Acronyms You Must “Chew” Before Monday (Part 1)
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USB- Universal Serial Bus
It is a standard type of connection for many different kinds of devices. It is used to connect many types of external devices to the computer
DOS-Disk Operating System
Refers to an operating system software used in most computers that provides the abstraction and management of secondary storage devices and the information on them
ALU- Arithmetic Logic Unit
It is the part of a computer processor that carries out arithmetic and logic operations on the operands in the computer instruction word
BCC- Blind Carbon Copy
It is similar to CC except that the E-mail address of the recipients specified in the field does not appear in the received message header and the recipients in the To and CC fields will not know that a copy has been sent to these addresses
BMP- Bitmap
It is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images
CC – Carbon Copy
Refers to sending copies of an electronic message to secondary recipients
CD- Compact Disk
Optical disk used to store digital data
CD-R – Compact Disk recordable
It is a CD on which you can write data only once. Once you write the data, the data is impossible to erase
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CD-ROM – Compact Disk Read-Only Memory
A type of disk capable of storing large amounts of data up to 1 GB, although the most common size is 650 MB
CPU- Central Processing Unit
The brains of the computer where most calculations take place
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