MULTIMEDIA HARDWARE (EXERCISE)

The following are examples of storage devices EXCEPT for _______.

• Hard Disks

• FireWire

• DVD

• Blu-ray Discs

Which of the following statements is NOT true about FireWire?

• It was introduced by Apple in the 1980s

• The transfer speed is 12Mbps

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

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

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

• MANs

• WiFi

• WANs

• LANs

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

• RAM

• ROM

• CPU

Which of the following is an example of an input device?

• Speaker and headphone

• Blu-ray discs

• Microphone

• LED screen

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

• it enhances data transfer between computers

• they can compare images on different monitors

• it enables cross-platform testing

• they can have more windows visible at one time

Choose the TRUE statement about Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software

• OCR Software use special color-correction hardware to ensure that what they see on the screen matches precisely what will be printed

• OCR Software can teach the system to recognize other commands that are more specific to your application

• OCR Software can convert paper documents into a word processing document on your computer without retyping or rekeying.

• OCR Software can trigger common menu events such as Save, Open, Quit, and Print

Ethernet is a method for wiring up computers between Windows and Macintosh.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The main difference between DVD and Blu-ray Disc is image compression

• TRUE

• FALSE

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

• TRUE

• FALSE