Improve Your Technical Vocabulary

Technology is everywhere, and has its own subset of vocabulary. Test your technical vocabulary with this (easy) vocabulary quiz.

  1. A portable computer is a
    • headphone
    • laptop
    • USB port
  2. You can plug your headphones into your computer’s
    • battery compartment
    • laptop case
    • USB port
  3. To connect to the internet, you need a
    • memory stick
    • microphone stand
    • broadband connection
  4. A __________ is a useful device for temporarily storing data
    • laptop case
    • memory stick
    • keyboard
  5. Microsoft Word is
    • gaming software
    • a graphics editor
    • a word processing program
  6. You surf the internet with
    • an internet browser
    • a surf board
    • a DVD writer
  7. Microsoft’s computer operating system is called
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
  8. The most widely used search engine is
    • MSN
    • Yahoo!
    • Google