Deck 9: Other Peripherals

Question 1

DLP technology is used with LCDs.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The combination of a red dot, green dot, and blue dot is a pixel.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The DisplayPort port can be used for video but also provide power for up to seven devices.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The speed at which the horizontal beam crosses the CRT monitor is the horizontal scanning frequency.

Question 5

The total number of pixels on a CRT monitor is the resolution.

Question 6

An active matrix display with a resolution of 1024 x 768 has 8,000 transistors.

Question 7

Shared system memory is when motherboard RAM is used/shared with the video card.

Question 8

The inverter does processing on the video adapter normally performed by the CPU on the motherboard.

Question 9

The smallest unit visible on a CRT monitor is a cluster.

Question 10

The distance between two dots on a CRT monitor is dot pitch.

Question 11

A KVM switchʹs primary purpose is to connect two laptops to one projector.

Question 12

A 14-pin port on a video adapter is commonly called a DVI port.

Question 13

A touch screen's accelerometer is used to determine how fast you can swipe your finger on the screen.

Question 14

The main part of the CRT monitor is the filament.

Question 15

A touch screen gyroscope is used to determine your location based on your mobile device location.

Question 16

A screen saver offers password protection and entertainment for todayʹs computer users, but on an older computer, it is used to prevent an image from burning into the screen.

Question 17

A touch screen display can attach using a USB port.

Question 18

The higher the resolution, the smaller the information on the screen appears by default.

Question 19

The purpose of the inverter on a laptop display is to provide power to the backlight bulb so that images on the screen can be seen.

Question 20

Resistive touch screens would be good to use in a hospital setting.

Question 21

The dot-matrix printhead houses the print wires that strike the ribbon to produce a dot on the paper.

Question 22

An HDMI connector on a video adapter can be used to connect a PC to a home theater system.

Question 23

Shared video memory is another word for shared system memory.

Question 24

The DVI-D connector can be used with an analog monitor.

Question 25

The HDMI connector is both an analog and a digital interface.

Question 26

When connecting two monitors to a singled computer, the cheapest solution is to buy a video card with two video ports.

Question 27

The S-video connector can be used to connect a computer to a TV.

Question 28

A laptop frequently shows an icon of a right arrow on the function key used to change the output from the laptop display to an external display such as a projector.

Question 29

Laptop video that disappears when the cover is adjusted is caused by a failing inverter.

Question 30

A video capture card can capture live video.

Question 31

The most common solution for installing multiple displays is to buy a motherboard that has two video ports.

Question 32

Inkjet printers frequently have a built-in paper test to ensure the paper weight is enough to print the specified output, such as photos.

Question 33

Windows has a troubleshooter tool to help with printing problems.

Question 34

An inkjet printer is also called an impact printer.

Question 35

A dot-matrix printer speed is measured in characters per second.

Question 36

A print server can be a computer that connects to a printer and a network but is not used for production.

Question 37

A color laser printer produces color output at an affordable price.

Question 38

If the laptop display is black, verify the cable that connects from the display to the motherboard.

Question 39

SLI is the capability to share resources between two PCIe video adapters.

Question 40

The laser printer produces the highest quality output at the fastest rate.

Question 41

Most inkjet printers use heat to make the ink squirt onto the paper.

Question 42

Plasma displays take less power than LCDs.

Question 43

Toner is powder made of plastic resin particles and organic compounds bound to iron oxide.

Question 44

Adobeʹs PostScript and HPʹs HPPCL are two of the most popular printer languages.

Question 45

The charge corona or the conditioning roller applies a uniform negative voltage to the laser drum.

Question 46

Liquid crystals used in monitors are not poisonous.

Question 47

Educating the user is part of the printer installation process.

Question 48

The laser printer's conditioning phase precedes the writing phase.

Question 49

Laser printers have tiny nozzles from which ink squirts onto the paper.

Question 50

The toner drum holds an inkjet printerʹs ink and functions as the printhead.

Question 51

Monitors can use a USB or IEEE 1394 port to attach to a system.

Question 52

Windows Office and Adobe Acrobat could conceivably use a different print driver for the same printer if Windows 7 is being used.

Question 53

Today's monitors frequently support only one refresh rate.

Question 54

Having one or more dead pixels in a new LCD is common.

Question 55

A print spooler enables you to keep working on your computer applications even though the computer needs to handle sending a large document constantly to the printer.

Question 56

Inkjet and laser printer output is commonly measured in lines per page. The higher this number, the better the quality of the output.

Question 57

Liquid crystals used in monitors are not poisonous.

Question 58

CRTs have toxic substances within the CRT that can cause health risks to humans if disposed of improperly.

Question 59

Dot matrix printers operate on the same principle as a copy machine.

Question 60

The way in which 1s and 0s write to the laser printerʹs surface is by using a laser or a LED.

Question 61

A flat panel monitor most likely connects to a -pin connector.

A) 5
B) 9
C) 15
D) 19
E) 24

Question 62

How are plasma displays different from LCDs?

A) They are an analog device rather than digital.
B) They use plasma rather than liquid crystals.
C) They produce less heat.
D) They provide multiscan rates rather than a single scan rate.

Question 63

The most common type of DVI connector used with flat panel monitors is the .

A) DVI-X
B) DVI-A
C) DVI-I
D) DVI-D

Question 64

A laptop is being used by a teacher in an outdoor (but protected by an overhang) setting. What setting would ensure that the laptop will not go into hibernate mode during the presentation?

A) System and Security > Firewall
B) Display > Advanced settings
C) Display
D) Power options

Question 65

What relationship does the refresh rate have to the monitorʹs resolution?

A) The lower the resolution, the faster the refresh rate is.
B) The slower the resolution, the faster the refresh rate is.
C) The clearer the resolution, the faster the refresh rate is.
D) The deeper the resolution, the faster the refresh rate is.

Question 66

What video technology would be used in kiosks?

A) VIS
B) DLP
C) Touch screen
D) Interlacing

Question 67

Which of the following refers to a monitor that supports more than one scanning frequency?

A) Horizontal scanning
B) Vertical scanning
C) Multiscan
D) Interlacing

Question 68

There are some industry inconsistencies in advertised sizes of monitors. Which of the following terms refers to the actual size of the monitor screen that can be seen?

A) Dot pitch
B) Viewable size
C) Dot triad
D) Resolution

Question 69

A monitor is advertised as 1920x1680. To what do these numbers refer?

A) Dot pitch
B) Resolution
C) Refresh rate
D) Picture cell size

Question 70

A flat panel display is flickering at a rapid rate of speed. How can you fix this issue?

A) Use the Monitor Control Panel > Settings > Advanced settings > Refresh rate
B) Use the Monitor Control Panel > Flicker rate
C) Use Device Manager > right-click the monitor > Properties > Details
D) Use the Display Control Panel > Change display settings > Advanced settings > Monitor > Refresh rate

Question 71

What is a monitorʹs refresh rate measured in?

A) Milliseconds ms
B) Millimeters mm
C) Hertz Hz
D) Horizontal pixels x vertical pixels

Question 72

VGA, SVGA, and UVGA connect to a -pin, 3-row, D-shell connector.

A) 5
B) 9
C) 15
D) 19

Question 73

What is the smallest displayable unit on a monitor screen?

A) Pixel
B) Dot pitch
C) Resolution
D) Horizontal mask pitch

Question 74

Which technology would most help with CRT colors that are not displaying correctly?

A) DLP
B) Degaussing
C) Lumens
D) Contrast

Question 75

Jennifer, the technician, has just installed a new monitor. However, when Jennifer goes to set the resolution, the maximum resolution given for the monitor cannot be set. What is the most likely issue?

A) The correct driver for the monitor has not been installed.
B) The computer has a VGA port instead of a DVI port.
C) The computer has not been restarted.
D) The video adapter does not have enough RAM.

Question 76

What is the distance between like-colored phosphorous dots on adjacent dot triads of a CRT monitor called?

A) Resolution
B) Dot pitch
C) Aperture
D) Horizontal pitch

Question 77

Which of the following technologies is used in modern flat panel color monitors?

A) Component/RGB
B) Multiscanning
C) DLP
D) Digital

Question 78

What video technology is commonly found in a laptop?

A) Shadow mask
B) LCD
C) DLP
D) CRT

Question 79

If a computerʹs video subsystem does not contain a separate video adapter, where would you find the electronic circuits for sending instructions to the monitor?

A) On the sound card
B) On the special RAM chips
C) On the motherboard Flash BIOS chip
D) On the motherboard

Question 80

Regarding computer monitors, to what does the term CRT refer?

A) Cathode Ray Tube
B) Cesium Resistor Tube
C) Carriage Return Terminator
D) Crystal Refraction Terminal