Exam 7: Input and Output

To display the highest quality images, an LCD monitor should plug in which of the following?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What method is used to read a bar code?

Because LCD projectors tend to produce lower-quality images, users often prefer DLP projectors for their sharper, brighter images.

Which of the following is a small, flat, rectangular pointing device that is sensitive to pressure and motion?

A laser printer produces printed images when tiny wire pins on a print head mechanism strike an inked ribbon.

Computers process information (output) into data (input).

Some photo printers can print panoramic photos.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Many personal computers and local devices have small internal speakers that emit only low-quality sound. To boost the low bass sounds, what do surround sound speaker systems include?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What is the measure of a display's width relative to its height?

____________________ are used in specialized fields such as engineering and drafting and usually are very costly.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT When application software poses a question to a computer user and the user answers, what term is used to identify that answer?

Which of the following requires any company with 15 or more employees to make reasonable attempts to accommodate the needs of physically challenged workers?

The kind of mouse on the right in the accompanying figure is motion-sensing. What kind of mouse is this?

Exposure to a magnet or magnetic field can erase the contents of a card's magnetic stripe.

In a graphical user interface, which of the following is a small symbol on the screen whose location and shape changes as a user moves a pointing device?

____________________ software converts a scanner image into a text file that can be edited with a word processing application.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Several factors that affect the quality of an LCD monitor or LCD screen, including the specific resolution for which they are geared. How is this resolution described?

What is pixel pitch sometimes called?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following are tasks a pointing device can accomplish?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What is a single device that provides functionality of a printer, scanner, copy machine, and perhaps a fax machine called?