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| What happens to the color produced by a glowing phosphor as the intensity of the electron stream increases in a CRT monitor?
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It gets brighter
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| Which of the following is not applicable for LCDs?
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They flicker a lot.
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| How many watts does a typical CRT monitor consume?
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120 watts
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| What is the thin film transistor (TFT) also known as?
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Active matrix
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| What was the resolution of the earliest graphics cards?
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320x200 pixels
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| In a 3-D world, what is a small picture that is tiled over and over again on walls, floors, and other surfaces?
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Texture
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| A sound wave has three primary characteristics. The first two are amplitude and frequency. What's the last one?
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Timbre
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| What are the two biggest issues with TV tuner cards?
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1. Operating system compatibility.
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| What is the line out connector used for?
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Enables output sounds from the computer.
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| What speaker installation uses either a single digital (S/PDIF) connectin or three seperate cables?
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Surround speakers
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| In a 2.1 speaker system, what is the pair of standard stereo speakers?
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Satellites
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| What will enable your TV tuner card to pick up TV broadcasts in most places?
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Antenna
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| Which device invented at IBM has a pencit eraser-sized joystick at the center of the keyboard?
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Track Point
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| What main advanage does a desktop extender offer?
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Mobility
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| What portable device is primarily used for scheduling, jotting down notes, and tracking expenses?
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(PDA) Personal Digital Assitant
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| You can synchronize most PDAs to a PC using which port?
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USB
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| Which program is used to sync a mobile device with a system running Windows Vista or Windows 7?
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(WMDC) Windows Mobile Device Center
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| Which is the high-performance serial replacement for PC Cards?
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ExpressCard
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| What type of printer works by ejecting ink through tiny tubes?
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InkJet Printers
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| What should you do if your dot-matrix printer output is covered with dots and small smudges?
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Clean the platen with denatured alcohol
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| What is heated by tiny resistors or electroconductive plates at the end of each tube in an inkjet printer?
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Ink
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| The dye-sublimation printing technique is an example of what method of color printing?
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(CMYK) Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
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| During the laser printer process, after the erase lamp exposes the entire surface of the photosensitive drum to light, what happens to the photosensitive coating?
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Makes the phtosensitive coating conductive.
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| In a laser printer, what is used to write a positive image on the surface of the drum?
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Transfer Corona
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| What should be added to a laser printer to resolve a memory overflow problem?
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Add Ram.
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