Deck 11: Back to the Future

Question 1

All but which one of the following is a true statement about the trajectory of technology growth?

A) Technology has been on a path of miniaturization since the 1960s
B) There has been an upward explosion of speed and a downward explosion of size
C) A decade into the new millennium, you could buy a phone with more CUP power than the fastest computer made in the 1990s
D) The World Wide Web has slowed down the demand for technology because people can get immediate information on their computers

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What did the revolutionary Game Boy handheld console firmly establish?

A) The genre of portable gaming
B) The use of simple techniques with levels that can be played quickly
C) Games that were meant to be played in a relatively short period of time
D) Play with less memory

Answer 2

A

Question 3

How are casual games played?

A) By hundreds to thousands of players at a time
B) By single players
C) Over the Internet
D) On PCs only

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which game is not a good example of the varied use of multiplayer environments?

A) Words with Friends
B) Club Penquin
C) Monkey Quest
D) Angry Birds

Question 5

What was one of the first well-known casual games?

A) Words with Friends
B) Club Penquin
C) Monkey Quest
D) Snake

Question 6

What is the purpose of Adware/Spyware?

A) To serve as a gathering point for a number of players
B) To allow players to interact within the game world in simple ways
C) To serve mainly as a promotional vehicle for the company that created them
D) To play, but with encouragements to spend more time inside the game to level up or to clear obstacles faster

Question 7

What is the purpose of Social Games?

A) To serve as a gathering point for a number of players
B) To allow players to interact within the game world in complex ways
C) To serve mainly as a promotional vehicle for the company that created them
D) To play, but with encouragements to spend more time inside the game to level up or to clear obstacles faster

Question 8

What is the purpose of freemium?

A) To serve as a gathering point for a number of players
B) To allow players to interact within the game world in complex ways
C) To serve mainly as a promotional vehicle for the company that created them
D) To play, but with encouragements to spend more time inside the game to level up or to clear obstacles faster

Question 9

Probably the best-known Social/Casual game is?

A) Club Penquin
B) Zynga's Farmville
C) Monkey Quest
D) Angry Birds

Question 10

What is true about Apple's iOS?

A) The first to set the standard as far as providing a viable and stable solution for game developers
B) The kernel was heavily modified so that it is now considered a fork, or separate version
C) The operating system can be implemented on compatible mobile hardware from any maker
D) Mostly open-source-based system centered around a Linux kernel

Question 11

What is true about Google's Android?

A) The first to set the standard as far as providing a viable and stable solution for game developers
B) First organized way to both purchase digital media and consume it in a high quality, seamless manner
C) Created a totally smooth experience for users, who flocked towards the new devices in droves
D) Most open-source-based system centered around a Linux kernel

Question 12

Most hardware running Apple's iOS supports the playback of which of the following?

A) AIFF (.aif, .aiff)
B) AAC (.aac, .Mp4a)
C) Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
D) FLAC (.flac)

Question 13

Most hardware running on Android supports the playback of which the following?

A) AAC (.aac, .Mp4a)
B) MPEG-1, layer 3 (.mp3)
C) WAV (.wav)
D) MIDI (.mid)

Question 14

What is the primary consideration when working on mobile game platforms?

A) Speed
B) Space
C) Varying levels of performance
D) Loading sound assets

Question 15

Which has the most impact on how you deal with sound and the amount of available bandwidth?

A) Speed
B) Space
C) Varying levels of performance
D) Loading sound assets

Question 16

Will a more limited frequency response have any discernable effect on end sound quality?

A) Never
B) Sometimes
C) Most of the time
D) Always

Question 17

What is recommended about audio compression for ambient backgrounds?

A) It is a given
B) Do not use
C) Use rarely
D) It will ruin your backgrounds

Question 18

Is it true that MP3 encoding can wreak havoc on perfectly good looping files?

A) No
B) Yes
C) Sometimes
D) They are not connected

Question 19

What is required when mixing audio for mobile?

A) Problem-solving skills
B) Algorithms
C) The use of automatic software
D) Not much because it is so simple today

Question 20

What is one of the biggest issues when designing sound for mobile devices?

A) Creating accurate playback of bass frequencies
B) Creating accurate playback of treble frequencies
C) Achieving complete control
D) Practically none due to software in use today

Question 21

What is not true about Apple's HTML5?

A) Apple's introduction gave it a huge push forward, and as a result HTML5 adoption has been on the rise ever since
B) It is an all-in-one solution for developing interactive content that will run on every device
C) It has a lack of web-browser standards support across both browsers and platforms
D) It leaves out support for Microsoft' Internet Explorer

Question 22

What is not true about Adobe's cloud-based services?

A) They focus on graphic publishing
B) They focus on media publishing
C) Its tools are called Edge
D) Its tools are designed for the web only

Question 23

Of the following sound formats, which is not supported by Flash?

A) AAC
B) MIDI
C) AIFF
D MP3

Question 24

Flash provides a basic interface for performing simple audio functions. Which of the following is not one of them?

A) Sounds can be inserted into the Library
B) Sounds can be placed on a timeline so the audio can be looped
C) Sounds can fade in and out
D) Sounds called from an external sound library have to be uncompressed

Question 25

What is not one of the steps to import sound into the Flash timeline so it is set to loop seamlessly?

A) Sound can be imported into a standalone instance of Flash
B) Sound can be batch-compressed using native MP3 compression within Flash
C) The entire library can be exported as an SWF file
D) The programmer can uncompress the sound

Question 26

Which platform literally once ruled the roost of the casual games market?

A) Adobe
B) Flash
C) Mac OS
D) Mozilla