What Is ISO?

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Part of the video series: Computer Basics

Summary: ISO, or the International Standards Organization, sets the standards for computer file formats related to images and files. Archive files onto a CD or optical disk as an ISO image with help from a certified computer technician in this free video on computers.

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By Jonathan Ayres
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"I'm Jonathan Ayres with Network for Success and today we're going to talk about what is an ISO. Well, ISO stands for the International Standards Organization which sets standards internationally for a variety of things. In this case we were talking about all has to do with computers. So it's a standard that is focused on formats for files and basically what we're talking about is an image of some things. So you can have an image of a computer that would be all of the files that existed on that computer as one final image and you would burn that to a CD because these are optical images. So, you take this complete set of files on a computer and you burn those to a CD in what's known as an ISO image and this ISO that you have is a format that's set by the International Standards Organization for archiving files onto a CD or an optical disk."

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