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CIS
CIS chap. 5-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Data and instructions entered into the memory of the computer. | Input |
| Any hardware component that allows users to enter data and instructions into a computer. | Input device |
| The number of horizontal and vertical pixels in a display device. | Resolution |
| The process of capturing full-motion video images and storing them on a computer's storage medium such as a hard disk or DVD. | Video input. |
| Technology that involves reading typewritten, computer printed or hand printed characters from ordinary documents and translating the images into a form that the computer can process. | Optical character recognition (OCR) |
| A document that you return to the company that creates and sends it. | Turnaround document |
| A technology that uses radio signals to communicate with a tag placed in or attached to an object an animal or a person. | RFID tag |
| The four categories of an Output? | Text, graphics, audio and video |
| Uses liquid compound to present information on a display | Liquied crystal display |
| Uses gas plasma technology, which substitutes a layer of gas for the liquid crystal material in an LCD monitor. | Plasma monitor |
| Forms characters and graphics on a piece of paper without actually striking the paper. | Non-impact printer |
| Forms characters and graphics on a piece of paper by striking a mechanism against an inked ribbon that physically contacts the paper. | Impact printer. |
| 2 commonly used impact printers | dot-matrix and line |
| A component of a computer that produces sound. | Audio output device |
| A single device that looks like a copy machine but provides the functionality of a printer, scanner, copy machine and perhaps fax machine. | Malfunction peripheral |
| A device that takes the text and images displaying on a computer screen and projects them onto a larger screen so an audience of people can see the image clearly | Data projector |