Exam 11: Essential Peripherals

How do you configure a keyboard and what tool might be used?

Digital cameras plug directly into a(n) _______________ port.

_______________ is the standard container file for Apple QuickTime for both Mac OS X and Windows.

TV tuner hardware comes with a standard _______________ connection.

CDs store data by using _______________ pits burned into a glass master CD with a powerful laser.

What type of USB cable is especially popular on smartphones?

_______________ is a container used mainly for WMA and WMV streams.

Because both CD-R and CD-RW drives require a powerful _______________, making a drive that could burn CD-Rs and CD-RWs became a simple process, and plain CD-R drives disappeared almost overnight.

The _______________ is the amount of information (number of bits) transferred from the compressed file to the MP3 decoder in 1 second.

_______________ is considered the next generation in optical disc formatting and storage technology after CD and DVD.

Describe the two distinct types of FireWire connectors.

Describe two types of bar code readers that are commonly used with personal computers.

What type of USB ports and connectors are used for interfacing with a PC?

List the five distinct standards of recordable DVD-media.

What is the wavelength of Blu-Ray's blue-violet laser?

The first CDs were designed for playing music and organized the music in a special format called CD-Digital Audio (CDDA), which we usually just call _______________.

Regardless of the type of flash memory you are using, your computer must have a(n) _______________ to access the data on the card directly.

Most cameras above the basic level have some _______________ zoom-meaning that the zoom is built into the lens of the camera.

What common file extension refers to the Fraunhoffer MPEG-1 Layer 3 codec?

What are the two Blu-ray Disc writable formats?