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Module 8 Assignment

This assignment is based on chapter 10.

1. What is the goal of multimedia technology?
2. Identify the three enhancements by Intel to CPU technology.
3. Identify the three stages of sound computerization.
4. Define sampling rate of a sound card.
5. What is TWAIN?
6. Give an example of a solid state device.
7. Briefly describe the popular audio compression method known as MP3.
8. What is streaming audio?
9. What can be done with a video capture card?
10. Hard drives may use the FAT or NTFS file system. What file system is used by CD/DVD drives?
11. How does the surface of a CD store data?
12. Describe CD drive speeds. Include the original speed, audio CD speed and what things like 40X and 52X mean.
13. What does it mean if a CD was written in multisessions?
14. How do CD-R disks differ from CD-RW disks?
15. Identify the types of CD drive interfaces. Which is most popular?
16. Should a CD drive be set to master or slave if it must share an IDE interface with a hard drive?
17. How much data can a DVD hold?
18. Give two reasons why DVDs hold more data than CDs hold?
19. What is the biggest disadvantage of using tape drives for data storage?
20. How can tape drives interface with a PC?
21. Identify the half-life of magnetic and optical media.
22. What is Fault Tolerance?
23. What operating systems offer the dynamic disk option?
24. Which RAID provides performance increase, increased volume capacity and fault tolerance?
25. What is an array?

Know the following terms:

• Basic Disk
• CAV/CLV
• Dynamic Disk
• JPG/JPEG
• Lands
• MPG/MPEG
• Pits
• TIFF

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