WorksheetsSound Storage Quiz
Total questions: 200
Worksheet time: 2hrs 7mins
How is an analogue sound wave converted into a binary sample?
By measuring the amplitude at specific intervals
By measuring the frequency of the wave
By using a microphone to record directly into binary
By converting the wave into text
What is a sample rate?
The size of the audio file in bytes
The number of bits used per sample
The duration of the audio file
The number of samples taken per second
Which of the following is a result of increasing the sample rate?
Higher audio quality
Lower audio quality
Fewer samples per second
Decreased file size
What is bit depth?
The number of samples per second
The total size of the audio file
The number of bits used to represent each sample
The frequency of the sound wave
How does increasing the bit depth affect an audio file?
It decreases the file size
It makes the audio file shorter
It reduces the number of samples
It increases the audio quality
What is the file size in bytes for an audio sample with a bit depth of 8, a sample rate of 10, and a duration of 12 seconds?
160 bytes
150 bytes
120 bytes
96 bytes
What happens to the file size if the sample rate is increased?
The file size becomes zero
The file size increases
The file size remains the same
The file size decreases
Which of the following is true about a low sample rate?
It increases the file size
It has no effect on sound quality
It results in low-quality sound
It results in high-quality sound
Optical discs are things like CDs, (a) s and Blu-Rays.
CDs can hold around 700 MB of data.
DVDs can hold around 4.7 GB of data.
Blu-Rays can hold around 25 GB.
Optical Discs come in three forms, select all of them...
Rewriteable (CD-RW, DVD-RW etc)
Read-Only (CD-ROM / DVD-ROM etc)
Write Only (DVD-R / BD-R)
Rewriteable (CD-RW, DVD-RW etc)
Retweetable (CD-Tweet / R)
Data stored on Backing Storage is...
Volatile
Non-volatile
Rank the units of data storage in order from smallest to largest..
MB > KB > Byte > TB >GB
KB > Byte > MB > TB > GB
Byte > KB > MB > GB > TB
TB > GB > MB > KB > Byte
Which of the following shows the capacity of OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIA in the correct order (smallest to largest)?
DVD > BLU RAY > CD
CD > DVD > BLU RAY
BLU RAY > DVD > CD
DVD > CD > BLU RAY
Which of these statements explain "durability"?
Length of time expected for data to last.
Whether the data will be saved as expected.
The data is not affected when saved.
No changes to the file formatting.
Besides COST or CAPACITY, which of these are characteristics of storage devices? (Select all)
speed (data transfer rate)
Durability
Portability
Reliability
Data Storage Space
Which of these storage devices make use of optics (laser light) to store data? (Tick All)
CD
Fibre Optic Cable
DVD
Blue-Ray
LED
Which of these define what secondary storage is?
Non-volatile storage / devices that are not directly accessible by the CPU
Any non-volatile storage
All memory technologies that use magnetism.
Any memory technology using laser light
A USB device
Which of these are reasons for computer systems requiring secondary storage? (Tick all)
Secondary storage improves system performance
Used to back up data stored in main memory/primary storage.
Stores programs/data and other files that would otherwise be lost when the power is switched off/RAM is volatile/cannot store data permanently.
Need for larger storage capacity (than what RAM and ROM can provide).
Its required for Virtual Networks
colour depth
number of colours used in the image
Bitmap images are made up of (a)
The number of bits used to represent each color is called the (a)
What is an Image Resolution?
Number of pixels in an image.
Number of bits in an image.
Number of bytes in an image.
Number of data in an image.
Main drawback of high resolution images?
Increase in file size
Increase in pixels
The quality of Image.
No drawbacks.
File size of an image is calculated as:
Image resolution (in pixels) x colour depth (in bits)
Sample rate x sample resolution x length of sample
Image resolution + colour depth
Image resolution - colour depth
What is the maximum number of values that can be represented in 8 bits
16
256
65,536
128
Which of the following is not stored as metadata about an image?
Height
Colour depth
Resolution
Number of people in the image
How many colours can be represented with a 4 bit colour depth?
(a)
Refers to the compression when some of the data from the original file is lost
lossless
300 dpi
lossy
cmyk
Which is a pro of your file being lossy
quality is loss
reduce download time
lower quality
can't get original back
Which is a con of your file being lossy
reduced file size
reduced download size
quality loss
easy uploading
Which is a pro of Lossless
larger files vs. lossy files
low low low quality
its become pixelated
No loss of quality when compressed
Compression in general makes it _______ to send, upload and stream data
Quicker
Slower
Lossless compression permanently deletes the data
True
False
Lossy compression would be suitable for text files
True
False
Compression looks for _______ data
Unnecessary
Repeated
What type of compression allows you to reconstruct the original data?
Lossless compression
Lossy compression
What type of compression does not allow you to reconstruct the original data?
Lossless compression
Lossy compression
Based on your experience with text compression, which of the following sentences would compress the BEST?
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
JavaScript scripts are actually different scripts than Java scripts.
3.5MB is how many kB?
350
3500
3500000
35000
Which of the following would not be suitable for Lossy Compression?
Images
Music
Videos
Text
Select the advantages for lossy compression
Makes the file much smaller
Will send much quicker
A very simple algorithm
The quality will not be affected much
Bitmap graphics are made up of
dots.
images.
mathematics formulas.
coloured pixels.
What is the sample rate?
The number of times a sound wave is sampled per second
The number of bits used to store each sample
How loud a sound is
The size of the sound wave
What is sample rate measure in?
Bits
Hertz
GB
amps
What is used to convert a sound wave in to a digital format?
A sound wave converter
A router
An amplitude to digital converter
Analogue to digital converter
What is the formula for finding a sound files size?
size = rate * resolution * seconds
size = rate * resolution * minutes
size = amplitude * bits * seconds
size = sample * frequency * bits
What is amplitude?
Number of samples taken
The number of bits per sample
The height of the sound wave
The pitch
What is a benefit of extended ASCII?
All major languages can be represented
Many European languages can be represented as accents are included
Nothing as it just uses more space to store each letter
What does alphanumeric mean?
Letters and numbers
Uppercase and lowercase letters, digits and symbols
Letters, digits, symbols and some special commands like space
If the letter A is character code 65, what is H?
72
71
8
73
Calculate the binary addition: 01111111 01111101
11111101
11111100
11011100
11011100
Calculate the binary addition: 00111011 00110011
01101111
01111110
01101110
11111110
1111 + 1111 + 0001
111101
11111
110011
10101
Divide by 2: 0011
(a)
Divide by 2 1011
(a)
Multiply by 4: 0101
(a)
A binary shift 1 place to the left is the equivalent to what arithmetic operation?
Multiplying the number by 2
Multiplying the number by 4
Dividing the number by 2
Dividing the number by 4
A binary shift 2 places to the left is the equivalent to what arithmetic operation?
Multiplying the number by 2
Multiplying the number by 4
Dividing the number by 2
Dividing the number by 4
A binary shift 2 places to the right is the equivalent to what arithmetic operation?
Multiplying the number by 2
Multiplying the number by 4
Dividing the number by 2
Dividing the number by 4
A binary shift 1 place to the left is the equivalent to what arithmetic operation?
Multiplying the number by 2
Multiplying the number by 4
Dividing the number by 2
Dividing the number by 4
An overflow error is where...
0s and 1s... Oh my!
Not enough room memory to store results
Wrong file type
To much room in memory to add everything up
How does the rule 1 + 1 + 1 work?
0 carry 1
1 carry both 0s
1 carry 1
0 carry 1
A right shift is the same as...
Hexadecimal
Multiplying
Subtracting
Dividing
A left shift is the same as...
Multiplying
Dividing
Adding
Rounding
Convert this decimal number into a Binary number: 1
(a)
Convert this decimal number into a Binary number: 7
(a)
Convert this decimal number into a Binary number: 10
(a)
Convert this decimal number into a Binary number: 20
(a)
Convert this Binary number into a Decimal number: 0011
(a)
Convert this Binary number into a Decimal number: 1001
(a)
Convert this Binary number into a Decimal number: 0001 0001
(a)
Convert this Binary number into a Decimal number: 0010 1000
(a)
How many bits are there in a byte?
2
4
5
8
What is the other name for binary
Base 10
Base 2
Base 15
Base 1
11010111 in binary is...
ODD
EVEN
10111110 in binary is...
ODD
EVEN
Hex = ?
How would you write the denary 10 in hexadecimal?
A
B
D
E
F
How would you write the denary 11 in hexadecimal?
A
B
D
E
F
How would you write the denary 13 in hexadecimal?
A
B
D
E
F
How would you write the denary 14 in hexadecimal?
A
B
D
E
F
How would you write the denary 15 in hexadecimal?
A
B
D
E
F
What is the binary number 111010 in hexadecimal?
E2
D2
B2
3B
3C
What is the binary number 10110010 in hexadecimal?
E2
D2
B2
3B
3C
What is the binary number 11100010 in hexadecimal?
E2
D2
B2
3B
3C
HINT: It has an 8 and a 4 in it!
Smallest unit of data in a computer is...
bit
Byte
kilobit
kiloByte
8 bit= ...
1 Byte
1kb
1kB
1GB
1000 Byte = . . .
1 kB
1 KB
1 kb
1000 kB= ...
1 mb
1 mB
1 MB
1000 GB = ...
1 tb
1 TB
1 Tb
1 tB
After TeraByte there is ....
YOTTABYTE
ZETTABYTE
EXABYTE
PETABYTE
A nibble is
1 bit
4 bits
1 byte
4 bytes
Which of the following would not be suitable for Lossy Compression?
Images
Music
Videos
Text
Compression in general makes it _______ to send, upload and stream data
Quicker
Slower
Lossless compression permanently deletes the data
True
False
Lossy compression would be suitable for text files
True
False
Compression looks for _______ data
Unnecessary
Repeated
There are _____ different types of compression
2
3
4
Select the advantages for lossy compression
Makes the file much smaller
Will send much quicker
A very simple algorithm
The quality will not be affected much
Select the advantages for lossless compression
Makes the file much smaller
Will send quicker
A very simple algorithm
The quality will not be affected much
You would use ______ compression if you still needed to have a high quality image
Lossy
Lossless
