Lesson 12: Using Peripheral Devices

Question 1

Hot swappable

Answer 1

Add or remove input device when the system is running

Question 2

What are two ways to uninstall a driver?

Answer 2

Uninstall the software package it came with or Device Manager in windows

Question 3

What is the screen resolution for standard displays?

Answer 3

4:3 aspect ratio

Question 4

How is screen resolution measured?

Answer 4

The number of pixels wide by the number of pixels high

Question 5

How do you adjust screen resolution on windows?

Answer 5

Setting then system then display

Question 6

How to configure touchscreen options ?

Answer 6

Tablet PC settings and Pen and Touch applets

Question 7

What does printing properties settings and allow you to do?

Answer 7

Update the driver, print to a different port, sharing and permissions, basic device options, default paper types

Question 8

What does Optical Character Recognition (OCR) do?

Answer 8

Convert a text image into a computer editable text document

Question 9

What are TWAIN and WIA ( Windows Image Acquisition) softwares?

Answer 9

The software for plug and okay features on scanner. WIA is for newer scanner.

Question 10

What is the display tab?

Answer 10

Adjust screen, resolution, scale, and layout

Question 11

Which Windows interface is used for advanced management, troubleshooting of devices, and driver updates?

Answer 11

Device manager

Question 12

True or False: you can remove the flash media from the camera, and insert it into a flash reader
(hint: flash reader is another term for memory card)

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What is a parallel port? How do they communicate?

Answer 13

Large edge-style Printer port with 36 contacts. For old dot matrix printers. They send multiple bits of data at once ( in parallel)

Question 14

What do you need to know to connect a device that is configured over the net work?

Answer 14

IP (Internet protocol) address of its management page or the devices host name

Question 15

What type of address does a switch use?

Answer 15

MAC address to identify each device in the network

Question 16

What color is the microphone input jack?

Answer 16

Pink

Question 17

What color is the audio in Jack for video players and CDs?

Answer 17

Light blue

Question 18

What is the color of the audio out jack for speakers or headphones?

Answer 18

Lime

Question 19

What is the color of the audio out Jack for rear speakers in the surroundsound system?

Answer 19

Black

Question 20

What is the color of the audio out Jack for the subwoofer in a surround sound system?

Answer 20

Orange

Question 21

What is a sound card?

Answer 21

Processes audio and provides interfaces for connecting equipment ti computer

Question 22

What is a digital signal processor chip (DSP) chip

Answer 22

Processes data from the computer to speakers and from microphone input to computer data.

Question 23

Which four toners are used to produce color prints?

Answer 23

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black (CMYK Model)

Question 24

What color scheme do computer monitors use?

Answer 24

RGB

Question 25

What basic steps demonstrates that a printer is connected properly to a computer and that is driver is installed correctly for windows?

Answer 25

Print test page

Question 26

What type of wired interface is a printer most likely to use?

Answer 26

USB

Question 27

What is DPI and where can you configure it?

Answer 27

Dots per inch or scaling via display settings

Question 28

What is the personalization applet for?

Answer 28

Themes and the appearance of the desktop

Question 29

What type of printer uses a fuser?

Answer 29

Laser printer

Question 30

What’s the main difference between laser and inkjet printers?

Answer 30

Lasers have high PPM for high volume while inkjet is cheap for low volume color printing

Question 31

How do laser printers work?

Answer 31

The laser heats up toner, then transfer and bonds the toner to the paper using heat and pressure.

Question 32

Do laser printers use toner?

Answer 32

Yes