Nor Shariza Bt Sahul Hamid (2010195497) ASD4BN CSC 134 1. What does it mean to be computer literate? What is a computer?

Computer literate means someone who knows well about the computer and have the skills to use the computer. A computer is a machine which able to process data into information. 2. Describe 2 health risk posed by computer. How might computers have negative impact on the environment? The 2 health risk caused by computers are the neck and spinal injury and also it can lead to mental health issues including addiction. Computers have negative impact on the environment because computers components have large amount of mercury and lead which can leech into soil and water runaway when it is improperly disposed. 3. What are 5 common storage devices? How are they different? Five common storage devices are pendrive, external hard disks, floppy disks, digital video disks and USB flash drive. The USB flash drive and pendrive can keep and remove data to be replaced by new data or in a short word it can be reuse. The hard disks can be used to installed audio , video or any data and we can remove it to be replaced by new data. The different between pendrive and external hard disks is the space provided. The maximum space provided by a pendrive ranges from 1 to 32 gigabytes while the external hard disks minimum spaces is from 500 gigabytes until 1 terabytes maximum. While , the digital video disks can only be used once and when the audio or video installed it cannot be removed. The digital video disks also is not multifunctional like the hard disks and pendrive since it cannot keep any Microsoft office document. For floopy disks, its function and spaces is very limited. It can only keep data from Microsoft office without any audio or video. The floppy disks also cannot be used for mobile laptop. 4. What is Web application? What are some features of Web 2.0 site? A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the internet.

Web 2.0 is a concept that take the networks as a platforms for information sharing. For example, the social network , blogs , video sharing and web application. Its features include XHTML , Javascript and HTML mark-ups validated. 5. How is hardware different from software? What are 2 types of system software and how they are used ? Hardware consist of the physical components while the software consist of the computer program itself. The first types of system software is application software. Application software is design to help user to perform specific tasks. For example , graphic software and media player. The second types of system software is the operating system software. Operating system software is used to manages computer hardware resources and provide common services for computer programs. 6. How do computers benefits individuals health care? How are telesurgery differs from telemedicine? Computers can benefits individual health care because personal health records can be available on computer system which can help the doctors to access to an individuals information. Personal health records can allows records of medication , test and medical history which can be really helpful. Telesurgery is a types of surgery that combined robotics with modern technology. When it is performed , a surgeon does not have to be in the same location. He or she can handle the surgery with the help of a computers and other surgeon. From the computers web cam he will be able to see and give instructions to his assistant to performed the surgery. While , telemedicine is the use of telecommunications technology to provide , enhance health care services, linking clinics or physicians offices to central hospitals. Telemedicine can transmit x-ray , or other diagnostic images for examination at another hospital centre.