Hardware in Multimedia

___ allows direct communication and sharing of peripheral resources such as file servers, printers, scanners and network routers.

• MAN

• WAN

• AMN

• LAN

The following are examples of storage devices EXCEPT _______.

• Hard Disks

• FireWire

• DVD

• Blu-ray Discs

_________ is/are typically read by the built-in camera on a smartphone or mobile device and may contain link information to quickly access a website.

• Quick Response (QR) codes

• Unicode

• ASCII code

• Codecs

Which of the following statements is NOT true about FireWire?

• It was introduced by Apple in the 1980s

• It is the industry standard and provides support for high-bandwidth serial data transfer, particularly for digital video and mass storage

• It can connect multiple computers and peripheral devices (peer-to-peer)

• The transfer speed is 12Mbps

Choose the INCORRECT storage device for a computer

• Compact disc read only memory

• FireWire

• Thumb drives

• Blu-ray discs

Both local area networks (LANs) and wide area network (WANs) can connect the members of a workgroup, but _____ workstations are located within a short distance of one another.

• LANs

• MANs

• WANs

• WiFi

Barcode readers are probably the most famous optical character recognition device in use today which can _____.

• read graphics into a computer

• recognize the numeric characters of the universal product code pattern

• scan voice and display in the computer

• scan and save the text in the computer

If you have budget constraints, you can certainly produce a multimedia project on a slower or limited-memory computer. On the other hand, it is profoundly frustrating to face memory shortages time after time, when you are attempting to keep multiple applications and files open simultaneously. Identify the hardware that can be upgraded in order to allow a computer to run smoothly

• Plug-and-play

• Random access memory

• Read-only memory

• Small computer system interface

Which of the following is an example of input device?

• Microphone

• Blu-ray discs

• Speaker and headphone

• LED screen

Serious multimedia developers will often attach more than one monitor to their computers because ______.

• it enhances data transfer between computers

• they can have more windows visible at one time

• it enables cross platform testing

• they can compare images on different monitors