CIS 166 week 6 homework

1. Printed output can be much easier to read than the same information on a computer screen
True
False

2. The most impact printers today are used for multipart forms printing; an example would be an ivoice with a canary, pink, blue and white copy that are . What would be a good choice for such a job?
Laser Printer
Ink Jet printer
Dot matrix printer
Pen plotter

3. The main printer port on Windows based PCs is usually designated as
Character Port
LPT1
Printer Port 1
Main Printer Port

4. A printer that produces characters by slamming a group of wires from a rectangular grid against a ribbon and onto paper is called
inkjet technology
thermal paper technology
ditto technology
impact technology

5. Why does high quality printing slow the speed of the print job?
It must produce more dots-per-inch and so is doing more work.
The printer must slow down as to not damage the ribbon.
Printers have small power supplies that quickly overheat when ran too fast.
High quality does not take any longer than draft mode

6. High quality impact printers typically provide better photographic quality than ink-jet printers do.
True
False

7. The Imagesetter printer is most often used for
low-resolution proofs
high-resolution final output for publishing
computer animation
none of the above

8. Most early computer printers used a(n) ____________ port, although today it is more often used for external modems or mice.
parallel
USB
serial
PS/2

9. A Centronics port can best be described as
a serial port sometimes used to connect a printer to a PC
a high speed digital port frequently used for digital cameras
a parallel port that has become the standard printer interface for today's printers
an older printer interface that is rarely used today.

10. Two or three users can access a single printer by using a switch box that changes which computer is attached to the printer. When five users need access to the same printer, a better solution is:
Set up the printer on the network through an internal network interface or an external print server (like HP Jetdirect)
Get a printer with more than one parallel port on it.
use both the parallel and serial interfaces
impossible for more than 2 to share the same printer.

11. The typical resolution you will find on a 15" monitor today is
640x480
800x600
1280x1024
1600x1400

12. Modern PCs use the AGP port (Accelerated Graphics Port) as the interface between system board and display adapter. You will find older PCs that may have their video card in this standard peripheral component interface.
PSI
PCI
IDE
USB

13. ESD (electrostatic discharge) is the number-one killer of preteen nonsmoking computer components. It requires this much voltage to damage a component:
Less than 3,000 Volts ( you don't know what happened)
3,000 Volts ( you can feel it )
6,000 Volts ( you hear it and feel it )
8,000 Volts ( you can see, hear and feel it )

14. You find scanners in all of the following formats EXCEPT
USB
SCSI
Parallel
IDE

15. What would you use a joystick for?
Playing Serious Sam
Editing pictures in PhotoShop
Typing a document in WordPerfect
Editing a page in Pagemaker

16. Since around 1985 drive controllers have been manufactured into the drive itself, while the interface board existed as an expansion board or a device integrated to the system board. The interface between the device's controller and the computer's mainboard does what?
manages memory used in the system
acts as the bus to transport data and requests back and forth
provides power to the system
provides a magical environment that transforms wooden puppets into real live boys.

17. The most popular hard disk interface has gone through many revisions. Some of the revisions include MODE3 which communicates at 12 MB/s, MODE4 which is as fast as 16.6 MB/s, Ultra DMA -Ultra ATA 33/66/100 which move data as fast as 100 Megabytes/second. What interface are we talking about?
SCSI
IDE
MFM
sausage cotton

18. DVD (which originally stood for Digital Video Disk) now means Digital Versatile Disc. These disks provide up to 18 gig on a double-sided double-density disc. How does this compare to a CDRom?
A CDROM holds the same amount of data, but will not work in DVD players
A CDROM can hold twice as much data
A CDROM can only hold as much as 0.7 gig (although the new 1.2 gig CDRs are coming out)
A CDROM can only hold as much as a single floppy disk.