Deck 25: Multimedia

Question 1

What is the process for capturing sound waves in an electronic format?

A) Downloading
B) Media
C) Recording
D) Sampling

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which player is commonly used to play Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)files?

A) CD
B) QuickTime
C) RealMedia
D) Windows Media

Answer 2

B

Question 3

How can you turn off some of the automatically loading helper applications before you start the video capture process?

A) Shut down and restart the system.
B) Update your video cards drivers in Device Manager.
C) End the process or process tree in Windows Task Manager.
D) Stop and restart the A/V Sync Service.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What do older systems require to get sound from the CD-ROM drive to the sound card?

A) Audio cable
B) IrDA cable
C) Media cable
D) Video cable

Question 5

How many channels of sound is the Dolby Digital sound standard designed to support?

A) Two
B) Four
C) Five
D) Eight

Question 6

What is the measurement of the number of different sound characteristics captured during sampling?

A) Bit depth
B) File size
C) Sound quality
D) Wavelength

Question 7

What measure describes the relative quality of an input port?

A) Noise-to-noise ratio
B) Noise-to-signal ratio
C) Signal-to-noise ratio
D) Signal-to-signal ratio

Question 8

A sound wave has three primary characteristics.The first two are amplitude and frequency.What's the last one?

A) Loudness
B) Melody
C) Noise
D) Timbre

Question 9

What is the result of increasing the sampling rate for sound capture?

A) Higher amplitude
B) Better sound reproduction
C) Stereo sound
D) Higher frequency

Question 10

What is the rate of a CD-quality sound capture when captured with 16-bit depth and in stereo?

A) 11.1
B) 22.1
C) 44.1
D) 88.1

Question 11

MIDI sound cards can play multiple instruments at once based on the number of instruments stored on the sound card.What is this called?

A) Pillory
B) Polyphone
C) Polyphony
D) Pylons

Question 12

What is the format of a MIDI file?

A) MP3
B) bmp
C) text
D) WAV

Question 13

What are the two biggest issues with TV tuner cards?

A) Only available in ISA and PCI expansion options
B) Poor reception and driver incompatibility
C) Tuner cards don't fit well in laptops or Netbooks
D) Not compatible with HDTV or coaxial connections

Question 14

What is the line out connector used for?

A) External device
B) Microphone
C) MIDI input
D) Speaker

Question 15

Music can be produced by electronically emulating various instruments.What is this process called?

A) AM synthesis
B) Emulated table synthesis
C) FM synthesis
D) Wave table synthesis

Question 16

What is the unit of measurement of the sampling rate when recording sound waves?

A) Gigahertz
B) Kilohertz
C) Megahertz
D) Tetrahertz

Question 17

What's the minimum number of connections most sound cards come with?

A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five

Question 18

How many samples of instruments are contained on most modern sound cards?

A) 16
B) 32
C) 64
D) 128

Question 19

What does MIDI stand for?

A) Microsoft instrument digital interface
B) Mild instrument digital interface
C) Musical instrument digital interface
D) Multiple instrument digital interface

Question 20

Streaming media is the broadcast of data that is played on the computer and immediately ____.

A) cached
B) discarded
C) published
D) saved

Question 21

What sound standard do games typically use?

A) DigitalX
B) DirectX
C) Dolby Digital
D) Dynamic

Question 22

Which of the following is an open format that can compress sound files without losing any data?

A) MP3
B) FLAC
C) MIDI
D) WMA

Question 23

What feature was introduced in DirectX version 3 and offered a range of commands to place a sound anywhere in 3-D space?

A) D3
B) DS3D
C) EAX
D) EPX

Question 24

What is it called when a sound is placed in a 3-D space?

A) Digital audio
B) Positional audio
C) Sampling
D) Sound modeling

Question 25

In a 2.1 speaker system,what are the pair of standard stereo speakers called?

A) Amplifiers
B) Audio drivers
C) Satellites
D) Sound chips

Question 26

What enables you to input MIDI information using an external MIDI-enabled device?

A) Video capture card
B) TV tuner card
C) Digital audio workstation
D) S/PDIF

Question 27

What devices often look and feel like standard music keyboards?

A) MIDI controller
B) Digital audio workstation
C) S/PDIF
D) Capture card

Question 28

Which is NOT a characteristic of a condenser microphone?

A) Inexpensive
B) High quality sound
C) Require power
D) Usually found in recording studios

Question 29

Which of the following older sound formats are much less popular than other recorded formats on computers,but are still fully supported by Windows and all sound hardware?

A) MIDI
B) MP3
C) MP4
D) MPEG-2

Question 30

What does DTS stand for?

A) Data Theatre Systems
B) Digital Theatre Systems
C) Dolby Theatre Systems
D) Dynamic Theatre Systems

Question 31

In the Dolby Digital and DTS standards,a system can have five speakers with a subwoofer.What nomenclature defines this?

A) 5.1
B) 6.1
C) DD 5
D) DTS 5

Question 32

All of the following are characteristics of a dynamic microphone EXCEPT:

A) Rugged
B) Do not require separate power
C) Suitable for everyday PC use
D) Usually found in recording studios

Question 33

What device is used between you and the microphone to minimize certain noises?

A) Capture card
B) Pop filter
C) S/PDIF connector
D) Condenser microphone

Question 34

What will enable your TV tuner card to pick up TV broadcasts in most places?

A) Windows XP Media Center
B) An antenna
C) Windows Vista Ultimate
D) HDTV

Question 35

Sound cards install proprietary software to support the ____ features not provided by Windows.

A) application
B) configuration
C) program
D) system

Question 36

What speaker installation uses either a single digital (S/PDIF)connection or three separate cables?

A) Digital
B) Multiple
C) Regular
D) Surround

Question 37

What should you check first when a system's sound isn't working?

A) Audio cable
B) Modem
C) Sound card
D) Volume control

Question 38

In what version of DirectX were EAX standards incorporated into DirectX?

A) 4.0
B) 5.0
C) 7.0
D) 8.0

Question 39

For the best recording,what would you want?

A) High noise-to-noise ratio
B) High noise-to-signal ratio
C) High signal-to-noise ratio
D) High signal-to-signal ratio

Question 40

All of the following are video capture and playback issues EXCEPT:

A) Dropped frames
B) Sync problems
C) Missing codecs
D) Outdated drivers

Question 41

The ____________________ file format is proprietary to RealMedia.

Question 42

ASX and RM are compressed audio/video file formats that were specially created to ____________________ over the Internet.

Question 43

The number of characteristics of a particular sound that are captured is measured by the ____________________ of the sample.

Question 44

Early processors used electronic emulation of various instruments,a technique often called ____________________.

Question 45

A (n)____________________ connector allows a sound card to connect directly to a 5.1 speaker system or receiver.

Question 46

The process of capturing the state or quality of a particular sound wave a set number of times each second is called ____________________.

Question 47

The Sounds and Audio Devices (Windows XP)or Sounds (Windows Vista/7)applets are examples of sound ____________________ programs.

Question 48

Almost every sound card has an input for a powered ____________________.

Question 49

Programmers have written algorithms to store full-quality WAV files as compressed files,also known as ____________________.

Question 50

In Windows XP,settings for sound playback,sound recording,and MIDI music playback can be configured on the ____________________ tab of the Sounds and Audio Device Properties dialog box.

Question 51

The multifunction analog/digital out connection acts as a special digital connection to ____________________ digital devices.

Question 52

Compressor/decompressor programs that allow storing of full-quality WAV files as compressed files are called ____________________.

Question 53

The ____________________ connector connects to the rear speakers for surround audio output.

Question 54

Sound cards play MIDI files using either wave table synthesis or the ____________________ technology.

Question 55

MIDI is short for ____________________.

Question 56

Subwoofers provide ____________________-frequency sounds.

Question 57

Most sound cards have at least ____________________ connections.

Question 58

The ____________________ handles the communication among the application,operating system,and CPU and translates commands into sounds coming out of the speakers.

Question 59

The three most popular streaming media players are ____________________,____________________,and Windows Media Player.

Question 60

The line in port connects to an external device to allow you to ____________________ sounds into a computer.

Question 61

In case of application problems,most sound players will display a(n)____________________.

Question 62

A MIDI file tells the sound card what ____________________ to play,how long to play them,and on which instrument.

Question 63

A microphone,sound card,and software enable you to ____________________ audio.

Question 64

Hardware manufacturers have to ensure that their sound cards are ___________________ compatible.

Question 65

____________________ are sets of audio presets that gave developers the capability to create a convincing sense of environment in entertainment titles and a realistic sense of distance between the player and audio events.

Question 66

The configuration program used in Windows Vista to configure sound settings is ________.

Question 67

Every modern PC comes with __________ processing capabilities built in.

Question 68

Surround-sound speakers either use a single digital (S/PDIF)connection or need ____________________ separate cables.

Question 69

The number of jacks required by a typical stereo or 2.1 speaker system is ______.

Question 70

Most chipset makers have adopted __________ for their better motherboard offerings.

Question 71

In the ____________________ technique,the sound processor adjusts and matches the sound and the requested timing with a prerecorded WAV file from its memory.

Question 72

Some video capture devices are external,while others are internal __________ cards.

Question 73

DirectX version 3 introduced ____________________,which offered a range of commands to place a sound anywhere in 3-D space.

Question 74

Although much less popular than other recorded formats on computers,every Windows computer and every sound card still fully supports __________.

Question 75

The standard used in games for sound output is ____________.

Question 76

Types of speaker systems are configured in the ____________________ tab of the Sounds and Audio Devices applet of a Windows XP PC.

Question 77

The most common sound problem is a(n)____________________ problem.

Question 78

The most difficult sound problems are ____________________ problems.

Question 79

When both the video and audio streams of your video file are compressed,the file is placed into some sort of container file or ____________________.

Question 80

To compete with the Dolby Digital standard,____________________ created a standard that also supports the 5.1 speaker system.