Chapter 6 - Application Software Used For Presentation And Communication Of Data

Question 0

What are paragraphs?

Answer 0

Blocks of text separated by different subjects

Question 1

What are characters?

Answer 1

Any letters numbers or symbols used in a document

Question 2

What are sections?

Answer 2

Section of text that can be formatted differently

Question 3

What divides documents?

Answer 3

Section breaks

Question 4

What are frames?

Answer 4

Area of a page containing text or graphics, continuing from on page to the next

Question 5

What’s a header?

Answer 5

Text on the top of every page

Question 6

What’s a footer?

Answer 6

Text on the bottom of every page

Question 7

What’s a footnote?

Answer 7

Note at the bottom of the page referencing a point in the main body of the text

Question 8

What’s a page?

Answer 8

A single side of a document

Question 9

What’s a mail merge?

Answer 9

Process of combining information from a data source to create a standard document

Question 10

Name 3 fonts

Answer 10

Script, sans serif and serif

Question 11

What’s a clip art library?

Answer 11

Collection of pre drawn images that can be copied and edited

Question 12

What’s a graphic library?

Answer 12

A collection of graphics related to a specific topic

Question 13

What’s cartography?

Answer 13

The art of map making

Question 14

Name three graphic application

Answer 14

Kitchen design
Cartography
Network design

Question 15

What does network design contain?

Answer 15

Industry standard symbols for components needed in a network such as servers routers and cabling

Question 16

What’s a vector?

Answer 16

Graphic saved as geometric equations.

Question 17

What’s bitmap?

Answer 17

Graphics saved as pixels

Question 18

Describe two differences between vector and bitmap

Answer 18

Vector resized without distortion, bitmap becomes pixelated

Vector file size small, bitmap large

Question 19

Give advantages and disadvantages of presenting on a computer and projector

Answer 19

Ad: saved and edited, quality doesn’t diminish, wide range of features
Dis: features over used, need computer and software which is costly and if there’s a power cut, can’t be shown

Question 20

Give advantages and disadvantages do printed acetate and overhead projector

Answer 20

Advantages - slides annotated to explain points, OHP is cheap and if there’s a power cut, the slides can be read by the presenter
Disadvantages - no special feautures, slides might get mixed up, quality deteriorates

Question 21

What are the three different presentation structures

Answer 21

Hierarchical
Linear
Non linear