A+ Chapter 5

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FireWire and i.Link are common names for the peripheral bus officially named IEEE _______.
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A(n) _________ is a video camera that is used to capture digital video that can be used to feed live video on the internet
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_______ is a process that allows the CPU to receive a single instruction and then execute it on multiple pieces of data rather than receiving the same instruction each time each piece of data is received
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When you turn on the PC, Windows Plug and Play detects a new hardware device
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_______ display is sometimes called active matrix display
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______ is a multi-media data compression standard that tracks movement from one fram to the next and stores only what changes, rather than compressing individual frames.
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A popular audio compression method is ______, a method that can reduce the size of a sound file as much as 1:24 without much loss of quality
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Chips sometimes loosen because of thermal changes; this condition is called ________
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For CRT monitors, _________ is a measure of how many spots on a CRT screen are addressable by software
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A storage device that uses memory chips to store data instead of spinning disks is called a ______ device
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When a serial port is used by an external modem, the modem is called the ________ in documentation
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DVD and CD technologies are known as ______ storage technologies
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________ monitors are also called flat panel monitors for the desktop
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A ______ volume appears as a simple volume but can use space from two or more phyiscal disks
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A _____ keyboard needs a driver to work
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The ______ rate is the number of times in one second an electron beam can fill the screen with lines from top to bottom
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_________ is a method of digitally describing and storing every individual note played by each individual instrument used in making music
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A mirrored volume corresponds to a primary partition on a basic disk and consists of disk space on a single physical disk
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The word ___________ means "designed for safe and comfortable interaction between human beings and machines"
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The _______ of a sound card is the number of samples taken of an analog sound signal over a period of time
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______ display is sometimes called passive matrix display
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With constant _______ velocity, the disc rotates at a constant speed
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A DVD can hold ______ GB of data
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A _____ disc can be used to write and overwrite
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A DVD can only use the top surface for data
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A mouse that connects to the computer by using a dedicated, round PS/2 mouse port coming directly from the motherboard is called a _______ mouse
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Mini CD-R/RW is installed in digital cameras and can be moved to a computer and read by a regular CD drive
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_________ CRT monitors draw a screen by making two passes
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When a serial port is used by an external modem, the serial port is called the ________ in documentation
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A mouse that connects to the computer by using a mouse bus card that provides a PS/2 mouse port is called a _______ mouse
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A(n) ______ monitor produces an image using liquid crystal material made of large, easily polarized molecules
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A _____ disc can only be written to once
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A USB _______, which for most motherboards is included in the chipset, manages the USB bus
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A _______ is an input device that uses a monitor or LCD panel as the backdrop for input options
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The surfaces of a CD stores data as pits and _________
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A CD or DVD drive will not properly read a CD or DVD when the drive is standing vertically
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A(n) _________ card can turn your computer into a television
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One or more serial, parallel, USB, or game ports can be provided by a(n) _____ controller card
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Converting files from regular music CDs into MP3 files is called
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Playing MP3 files directly from the Internet without first downloading them is called _________
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A group of hard drives implementing RAID is called an array
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Each composite location on a CRT screen is really made up of three dots and is called a(n) ________
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The Surround Sound standard supports up to ______ separate sound channels of sound information for up to _____ different speakers, each producing a different sound
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CRT monitors cost more than LCD monitors
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A _____ can be used to identify a person's fingerprints, handprints, face, voice, eye, and handwritten signatures
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DVD drives use the ________ file system
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Many monitors use ______ technology, in which the filaments at the back of the cathode tube shoot a beam of electrons to the screen at the front of the tube
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The number of bits used to store a sample of sound is called the ________
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A USB cable has three wires, two for power and one for communication
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Tapes currently have capacities of 20 to ______ GB compressed