Media Formatting Quiz

Digital sound recordings capture sound waves and divide them into distinct segments. Each segment is assigned a value. What is that value called?

• Sample height

• Sampling rate

• Resolution

• Bit depth

How many possible values would an 8-bit audio sample have?

• 256

• 65,000

• 256,000

• 16

Which of the following makes videos appear smoother and more fluid?

• Higher frame rate

• Higher resolution

• Lower frame rate

• Lower resolution

Which of the following is a lossless compression algorithm?

• Compression artifact

• PNG

• Run-length encoding

• MP4

What are pixels that are the exact same between multiple frames called?

• Compression artifact

• Temporal redundancy

• Lossless compression

• Run-length encoding

Which kind of file would be hurt most by a lossy compression algorithm?

• An audio file containing music

• A text document

• An audio file containing speech

• A digital photograph

A typical computer monitor is which type of display?

• RGB

• Raster

• White

• Vector

Which type of digital picture is made by storing individual pixel values?

• High-res

• Raster

• Pixel map

• Vector

Which type of digital picture can be scaled to any size without losing quality?

• Raster

• Transparent

• Vector

• High-res