Computer Sciene Week 1-8

Front 1

A___is a fundamental component of every single-user computer system and is the most common sof-copy output mechanism for displaying text, images, graphics, and video screen.

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Monitor

Front 2

A___residing on the motherboard inside they system unit converts the digital signals produced by the computer into analog signals and sends them through a cable to the monitor.

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Graphics

Front 3

Graphics adapters usually have their own built in video memory including VRAM, WRAM, SGRAM and

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SDRAM

Front 4

An___is the most common type of device for producing hard copy output on a physical medium, such as paper or transparency film.

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printer

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An___printer forms and prints characters in a manner similar to the way numbers appear on a football scoreboard.

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dot-matrix

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___Printers are non-impact printers that form characters and images by spraying thousand s of tiny droplets of electrically charged ink onto a sheet of paper as sheets passes through printer.

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Ink-jet

Front 7

A___machine is an electronic device that can send and recieve copies of documents through a telephone lines.

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Facsimilie

Front 8

The speed of a disk storage device is measured by___, the time a storage device spends locating a particular file.

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Access time

Front 9

A ___system consists of one or more rigid metal platters (disks) mounted on a metal shaft in a container that contains an access machanism.

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Hard Drive

Front 10

A___ drive allows a PC user to record of burn information on a compact disk using a device called a

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CD-R

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___images a re computer generated pictures produced on a computer screen, paper, or film

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Graphic

Front 12

A___(short for picture element) is a tiny single point in anything being displayed on a screen.

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Pixel

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As with scanners and digital cameras, the number of pixels in the display determines the monitor's quality, or

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resolution

Front 14

Most photograph printer can print photographs after they have been loaded from a ___ into the computer and displayed on the screen

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digital camera

Front 15

A___is a type of printer used to produce specialized kinds or large sized high-quality printing including acrchitectural drawings, charts, maps, diagrams, and other images.

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Plotter

Front 16

Modern hardware and software technologies make it possible to produce synthesized human speech in the ____ a computer can understand and use.

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Digital form

Front 17

A file name is followed by a period and set of characters called

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extension

Front 18

The three most common types of magnetic storage devices for personal computers are floppy disks, hard directory and ___

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tape

Front 19

For large companies, magnetic disk storage consists of a disk drive housing multiple hard disks contained in a rigid plastic container called a ___

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disk pack

Front 20

The main factors in monitor performance and quality include the amount of RAM in the graphics adaptor, the monitor resolution and the refresh rate.

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TRUE

Front 21

The multifunction device(MFD) is a piece of equipment that looks like a printer or copy machine, but which provides a variety of capabilities including scanning, copying, printing, and sometimes faxing.

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True

Front 22

A tape drive system consists of one or more rigid metal platters mounted on a metal shafr in a container that contains an access mechanism

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False

Front 23

Impact printers form characters and images without actually striking the output medium, using electricity, heat, laser technology or photographic techniques.

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false