Deck 6: Digital Media for Work and Leisure

Question 1

Digital music is a subcategory of digital audio that involves recording and storing music.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Digital phone networks digitize speech and send it as bits over cables or through the air.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A sound production studio uses a wide variety of audio hardware and software to record and manipulate music and sound recordings.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Cybratone is a robot band created by Scottish artists that changes its tune based on its online popularity.

Question 5

The MP3 file format compresses PCM music files to less than 3 percent of their original size.

Question 6

Microsoft WMA and Apple's AAC file formats do not include DRM technology.

Question 7

Digital images are made up of a grid of small points called pixels.

Question 8

Although raster graphics are impractical for representing photo-quality images, they are preferred for creating and storing drawings.

Question 9

Cartoonists and comic book artists can produce their products much more quickly using graphics software than they can by sketching and coloring.

Question 10

Objects in a vector graphics image can be layered and grouped into larger objects.

Question 11

When creating 3D digital art, the artist starts by defining a light source.

Question 12

Pixar, the company that brought Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and UP to the screen, uses a powerful computer system called the RenderSpeedway.

Question 13

A character in an animated feature film may have over 100 avars in the face alone.

Question 14

Working with raster graphics is a lot like arranging cutouts to create an image.

Question 15

A good entry-level camera like the HP PhotoSmart costs around $75 and provides 8-megapixel images, and numerous advanced features.

Question 16

Most camcorders can also capture still images, at the same high resolution as a good digital camera.

Question 17

Video games make up a small portion of the interactive media market.

Question 18

The term digital media has different interpretations in different environments.

Question 19

When digitized sound is transformed back into its analog form, the re-created sound wave is an exact duplicate of the original live sound.

Question 20

Only the iPod supports the iTunes Store format (.m4p).

Question 21

Digital audio encompasses digital technologies of all kinds that serve and support digital music, video, and graphics. _________________________

Question 22

One way to quantify sound is by measuring the amount of air particle displacement and charting it over time to create a graph, called a(n) digital sound wave. _________________________

Question 23

A podcast is a(n) video file that contains a recorded broadcast distributed over the Internet. _________________________

Question 24

Digital rights management is technology that protects intellectual property by restricting the number of devices and applications on which a file can be opened, and the number of times that the file can be copied and burned to disc. _________________________

Question 25

There are three primary forms of audio storage media: CDs, hard drives, and flash memory. _________________________

Question 26

Computer-assisted design software assists designers, engineers, and architects in designing three-dimensional objects. _________________________

Question 27

A(n) storyline allows the videographer to arrange video scenes sequentially and specify the transition effects between each scene. _________________________

Question 28

Vlog is short for video log, and it is the video version of a blog. _________________________

Question 29

The Nintendo Playstation broke new ground for game consoles by introducing a wireless, motion-sensitive game controller. _________________________

Question 30

The Microsoft PSP brings PlayStation-quality 3D graphics to a handheld device that doubles as a music and movie player. _________________________

Question 31

Live TV is a digital television service that includes one or more of the following: video on demand, personal video recorder, local information on TV, purchase over TV, Internet access over TV, and video games over TV. _________________________

Question 32

Personal motion recorders, such as TiVo and Replay TV, provide large hard-drive storage to record dozens of movies and programs to be watched at your leisure. _________________________

Question 33

Using behavioral profiling, cable TV providers can observe customers' viewing patterns in order to develop an understanding of their interests. _________________________

Question 34

Digital drum machines, sequencers, samplers, and synthesizers are available as personal computer software. The software interacts with the computer's onboard synthesizer to provide sound studio capabilities. _________________________

Question 35

Digital video compression involves analyzing each frame of a video and storing only the objects that change from frame to frame. _________________________

Question 36

A combination of different digital media types, such as animation or video and audio, is called multimedia or sometimes ____ media.

A) friendly
B) rich
C) interactive
D) colorful

Question 37

-The accompanying figure, showing an original and an enlarged graphic, is an example of ____ graphics.

A) bit-mapped
B) vector
C) both a. and b.
D) neither a. nor b.

Question 38

-The accompanying figure, showing an original and an enlarged graphic, is an example of ____ graphics.

A) bit-mapped
B) vector
C) both a. and b.
D) neither a. nor b.

Question 39

Digital media that can be controlled, manipulated, or in some way interacted with is called ____ media.

A) rich
B) automated
C) interactive
D) tethered

Question 40

A recent way of quantifying sound is to represent sound waves with numbers, digitally, through a process called ____ conversion.

A) analog to digital
B) digital to analog
C) simple to complex
D) complex to simple

Question 41

ADC uses a technology called ____ to encode a sound wave as binary numbers.

A) storing
B) reverberating
C) pinging
D) sampling

Question 42

When you digitize a sound wave, you measure and record its amplitude (____) at regular time intervals.

A) width
B) height
C) timing
D) rhythm

Question 43

Forensic audio uses digital processing to ____ (remove nonessential sounds and audio interference), enhance, edit, and detect sounds to assist in criminal investigations.

A) un-noise
B) dis-noise
C) denoise
D) renoise

Question 44

The process of identifying a recorded human voice is known as voice-____ identification.

A) print
B) pitch
C) DNA
D) tone

Question 45

An engineer can use a ____ board to adjust the sound quality of musical instruments separately.

A) resonance
B) musical
C) mixing
D) sounding

Question 46

Most music production studios have large racks of interconnected digital audio devices, called ____ devices, to process digital music and audio signals.

A) inbound
B) outbound
C) inboard
D) outboard

Question 47

A ____ produces sounds designed to be similar to the sounds of real instruments.

A) synthesizer
B) sampler
C) drum machine
D) sequencer

Question 48

A ____ digitally records real musical instrument sounds and allows them to be played back at various pitches using an electronic keyboard.

A) synthesizer
B) sampler
C) drum machine
D) sequencer

Question 49

A ____ manages multitrack recording.

A) synthesizer
B) sampler
C) drum machine
D) sequencer

Question 50

A ____ records drum beat patterns tapped on pressure-sensitive buttons or pads to produce drum sounds that can be played back in a looping pattern.

A) synthesizer
B) sampler
C) drum machine
D) sequencer

Question 51

Software called a podcast ____ uses RSS to allow you to subscribe to your favorite podcasts from one application.

A) aggregator
B) manager
C) either a. or b.
D) neither a. nor b.

Question 52

Although digital downloads are growing, CDs made up ____ percent of album sales in 2008.

A) 55
B) 65
C) 85
D) 95

Question 53

Digital music is burned to CD in a special format called ____-code modulation or PCM.

A) port
B) pulse
C) pattern
D) pop

Question 54

A device called a(n) ____ radio is a home stereo that accesses music and programs from Internet radio and music services with or without a PC, using your home wireless network.

A) Wi-Fi
B) Hi-Five
C) Internet
D) Access

Question 55

Media player software, such as iTunes, Windows Media Player, Zune, and RealPlayer, allows users to organize and play digital music, audio, and video files on ____.

A) PCs
B) media devices
C) both a. and b.
D) neither a. nor b.

Question 56

____ software allows computer users to categorize and organize their digital music files for easy access.

A) Accordion
B) Jukebox
C) Record Player
D) Librarian

Question 57

The process of transferring music from CD to MP3 or other digital audio format is called ____ a CD.

A) ripping
B) burning
C) logging
D) podcasting

Question 58

Representing an image using bytes is simply a matter of storing the color of each pixel used in the image. Images stored in this manner are called bit-mapped graphics or ____ graphics.

A) raster
B) vector
C) both a. and b.
D) neither a. nor b.

Question 59

In bit-mapped graphics, colors are expressed using ____ that represent combinations of intensities of red, green, and blue.

A) paint swatches
B) numbers
C) text strings
D) color grids

Question 60

Whenever all three bytes are set to the same values, the resulting color is a shade of ____.

A) black
B) brown
C) gray
D) green

Question 61

Animation and video (moving pictures) are stored in the computer as a series of images called ____.

A) frames
B) stills
C) cells
D) snapshots

Question 62

Television uses a rate of ____ frames per second (fps).

A) 20
B) 30
C) 40
D) 50

Question 63

____ compression accepts some loss of data to achieve higher rates of compression.

A) Lossless
B) Lossy
C) Full
D) Partial

Question 64

-Referring to the accompanying figure, the very top photo shows the image in ____ colors.

A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3

Question 65

-Referring to the accompanying figure, near the middle of the graphic, the colors progress to 8 colors. This is equivalent to ____ bits.

A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5

Question 66

-Referring to the accompanying figure, the final image shows a 24-bit image which includes ____ colors.

A) over 1,000
B) over 10,000
C) over 100,000
D) over 1,000,000

Question 67

Vector graphics software, sometimes called ____ software, provides tools to create, arrange, and layer graphical objects on the screen.

A) drawing
B) painting
C) blueprint
D) layout

Question 68

Three-dimensional modeling is often referred to as ____ tracing because the software must trace rays of light as it would interact with the models in the real world.

A) light
B) ray
C) sun
D) glow

Question 69

Rendering is the process of calculating the light interaction with the virtual 3D models in the scene and presenting the final drawing in ____ to be viewed on the screen or printed.

A) one dimension
B) two dimensions
C) three dimensions
D) none of the above

Question 70

Digital graphics animation involves displaying digital ____ in rapid succession to provide the illusion of motion.

A) images
B) binary digits
C) light waves
D) sound waves

Question 71

On the Web, simple drawings that repeat the same motion over and over endlessly are called an animated ____.

A) JPG
B) TIFF
C) GIF
D) byte

Question 72

Three-dimensional computer animation includes all of the complexity of 3D graphics rendering, multiplied by the necessity to render ____ 3D images per second to create the illusion of movement.

A) 12
B) 18
C) 24
D) 30

Question 73

Digital imaging uses bit-mapped, or ____, images.

A) raster
B) vector
C) either a. or b.
D) neither a. nor b.

Question 74

A 64 MB card can store over 100 medium-resolution photos, or ____ high-resolution photos.

A) 80
B) 70
C) 60
D) 50

Question 75

Photo-____ software, such as Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, include special tools and effects that you can use to improve or manipulate bit-mapped photographic images.

A) development
B) creation
C) application
D) editing

Question 76

____ graphics is used to create animations and exhibits to use in courts of law to explain theories and present evidence.

A) Police
B) Forensic
C) Investigative
D) Detective

Question 77

Making History is a multiplayer simulation that puts players in control of ____ governments before, during, and after World War II.

A) European
B) Asian
C) African
D) Arab

Question 78

____ allows digital cable customers to select from hundreds of movies and programs to watch anytime they choose.

A) Flicks on demand
B) Video on demand
C) Films on demand
D) Cinema on demand

Question 79

____ information on TV provides local community news and information.

A) Regional
B) Local
C) Area
D) Neighborhood

Question 80

Purchase over TV, sometimes called ____, allows viewers to make purchases over their cable TV connection much as computer users make purchases on the Web.

A) p-commerce
B) t-commerce
C) buy-commerce
D) tv-commerce