Chapter 6 Questions
True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
1. Information on a display device, sometimes called soft copy, exists electronically and appears for a temporary period.
2. Both the video card and the monitor must support the same video standard to generate a desired resolution and number
of colors.
3. The quality of a CRT monitor depends largely on its resolution, dot pitch, and refresh rate.
4. A hard copy is either in portrait or landscape orientation.
5. With an ink-jet printer, a higher dpi means the drops of ink are larger.
6. Laser printers for personal computers ordinarily use continuous-form paper.
7. Laser printers sometimes are called page printers.
8. Impact printers cannot withstand dusty environments, vibrations, or extreme temperatures.
9. Impact printers are noisy because a mechanism strikes against an inked ribbon that physically contacts the paper.
10. Because LCD projectors tend to produce lower-quality images, users often prefer DLP projectors for their sharper,
brighter images.
11. In addition to games, joysticks and wheels that include force feedback are used in practical applications such as in the
military and aviation.
12. Hearing-impaired users can instruct programs to display words instead of sounds.
13. Visually impaired users cannot change Windows XP settings, such as increasing the size or changing the color of text
to make words easier to read.
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
14. _____ is a category of output that includes memorandum, letters, announcements, press releases, and reports.
a. Text
c. Audio
b. Graphics
d. Video
15. Commonly used output devices include all of the following, except _____.
a. display devices
c. printers
b. speakers and headsets
d. ports
16. Two types of display devices are _____ displays.
a. ink-jet and laser
c. impact and nonimpact
b. flat-panel and CRT
d. label and postage
17. Setting a monitor to display a higher resolution uses a _____.
a. smaller number of pixels and thus provides a smoother image
b. smaller number of pixels and thus provides a rougher image
c. greater number of pixels and thus provides a smoother image
d. greater number of pixels and thus provides a rougher image
18. When compared to LCD monitors, plasma monitors offer _____ expensive.
a. smaller screen sizes and lower display quality and are less
b. smaller screen sizes and lower display quality but are more
c. larger screen sizes and higher display quality but are more
d. larger screen sizes and higher display quality and are less
19. _____ is the number of times per second a CRT screen is redrawn.
a. Dot pitch
c. Pixel pitch
b. Resolution
d. Refresh rate
20. Until a few years ago, printing a document required connecting a computer to a printer with a cable via the _____ port
on the computer.
a. serial port or IrDA
c. FireWire or MIDI
b. parallel port or USB
d. SCSI or Bluetooth
21. Printer resolution is measured by the number of _____ a printer can output.
a. dots per inch (dpi)
c. pixels per inch (ppi)
b. characters per inch (cpi)
d. bits per inch (bpi)
22. Many inexpensive photo printers use _____ technology.
a. ink-jet
c. dot-matrix
b. laser
d. thermal
23. A(n) _____ prints fully formed characters when hammers strike a horizontal, rotating band that contains shapes of
numbers, letters of the alphabet, and other characters.
a. ink-jet printer
c. laser printer
b. shuttle-matrix printer
d. band printer
24. Most personal computers have a small internal _____ that usually outputs only low-quality sound.
a. monitor
c. speaker
b. printer
d. modem
25. The disadvantage of a multifunction peripheral is that _____.
a. it requires more space than having a separate printer, scanner, copy machine, and fax
machine
b. it is significantly more expensive than purchasing a printer, scanner, copy machine, and
fax machine separately
c. if the device breaks down, users lose all four functions
d. all of the above
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