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| _____________ is the frequency range between the highest and lowest frequency passed through a component or circuit. |
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| A _____________ is made up of 4 to 3,000 pairs twisted together into one cable. |
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| ____________ can be used with frequencies of up to 10,000 MHz, and transmits at a rate of 10 Mbps. |
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| There are several types of signals that are transmitted by ___________ systems, ranging from 6 MHz bandwidth for TV programs to 43 Mbps for digital data. |
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____________ systems use large antennas to transmit a signal from repeater station to
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| __________ cabling is relatively inexpensive in comparison to metallic cables of the same capacity. |
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| A _____ uses hardware and protocols designed to communicate with computers that are typically in the same building or same general vicinity. |
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| A _______ typically uses telephone lines and satellites as a medium of communication. Networks can talk to other networks with the right communications setup. |
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| This is an example of a network to which the public can subscribe. |
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| Using a public network for secure information exchange between private computers is called a ____________. |
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| In 1991, the first truly user-friendly interface for the Internet, called ________, was developed at the University of Minnesota. |
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| To make the nets even easier to use, a new protocol was proposed for information distribution; this protocol became ____________. |
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| __________ was the first national commercial online service to offer Internet access to its subscribers, opening an email connection in July 1992, and full Internet service in November 1992. |
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| In this LAN configuration, all of the devices are connected to a central line medium, known as the backbone. |
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| In this LAN configuration, all of the devices are connected to one another, forming the shape of a circle. Each device is connected directly to two other devices, one on each side of it. |
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| In this LAN configuration, all of the devices are connected to a central hub, which acts as a traffic cop for all the data transmitted through the network. |
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| In this LAN configuration, groups of devices are arranged in star topologies but each group is connected to a backbone line medium. |
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This LAN system allows multiple communication signals to travel through one channel by using packets of data that have destination addresses, and redundant check bits to detect
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| This LAN interface allows local area networks to be transmitted at rates of up to 100 Mbps. This protocol can only be used with fiber-optic cable. |
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From one _______ phone line, you can take a phone call and transmit data from your
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| A __________ provides 24 channels at 64 Kbps, totaling a rate of 1.536 Mbps with an additional 8 Kbps used as framing information. |
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| A _____ connection has a total of 672 individual channels, each of which supports 64 Kbps data transfers. |
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| There are two basic types of this line medium, a symmetric and an asymmetric, both of which utilize a high-frequency part of the bandwidth on regular phone lines. |
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| This connection supplies us with a much wider bandwidth than regular phone lines, with speeds up to 2 Mbps. |
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| __________ is designed to handle voice, video and data in WANs at rates of up to 2,488 Mbps (2.488 Gbps). |
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| By 1970, Bell Labs had created the computer code called _________, which was written for the new operating system at the time, which was called UNIX. |
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| Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs, working on a compiler that could generate executable code, ushered in this modern code that we use today. |
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| _______ is text-based, and is embedded in browsers for the Internet. It can’t run on its own, it has to be run within another program. |
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A ___________ is fixed at a particular resolution, making them difficult to resize without
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| An ________________ is a mathematical equation that can be resized and manipulated with the click of a mouse. |
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| A ______ can be a hardware device, like used in ISDN connections, or the software used to compress video for streaming across the Internet. |
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The ________ file format, commonly used in the printing industry, has variations that
include black-and-white, gray scale, and color. |
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| _______ was designed for printing purposes, and is an object-oriented file format. |
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The _______ contains data compression for bitmaps that uses only 256 colors, which
allows them to be smaller files and ideal for surfing the Web. |
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| _________ is often thought of as a file format, but really is a set of standards for compression for bitmapped images. |
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| __________ was created to allow for a free and improved version of the GIF format. |
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| The _______ format is the standard bitmapped graphics format for Microsoft Windows computers, and doesn’t utilize any compression. |
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| ______ was created by Microsoft, and is used to save synchronized audio and/or video for distribution over networks or for use on a local computer. |
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| _________ is just one of several Microsoft’s streaming formats, but these files contain audio only. |
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| _________ is another of Microsoft’s streaming formats, which can contain video in addition to audio. |
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| ______, a common file used in Microsoft Windows in regards to video files, can use different codecs, so the user must have the proper codec to view the file. |
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| __________ is a video compression that is used to reduce the video file to 1/140th of its original size. |
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| _______ is used for audio compression, and is commonly found on the Web. |
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| ________ is able to store high-quality video without taking the massive amount of space the original uncompressed video takes. The compression does this by removing redundancies within the motion picture. |
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| _________ was built upon previous file formats, and also provided more standards for multimedia applications and better audio-video compression. |
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| ______________ was created by Apple computer as their format for computer-based video. |
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| ___________ was created by Real Networks for streaming video via the Internet. |
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| __________ is very popular with animated Web sites and presentations, as it allows for audio, video, animation, and interactivity. |
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___________ is a sound file format created by Microsoft and IBM, and has become the
standard sound format for Windows computers. |
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| ____________ is a sound file format created by Apple Computer, and is the standard for their machines. |
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| ___________ files are records of events, or triggers, which tell the computer’s sound card to play a certain sound at a given time. |
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| The official designation for the audio-only format of the compact disc is the _________. |
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| The original standard CD formats held _____ MB of data; today, they can hold as much as ______ MB. |
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| This format has become increasingly popular with musical artists. The artists are able to include song lyrics, videos, screen savers, and Web links on a CD that plays audio in a standard audio CD player. |
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| The _______ was a television-based player, much like the laser disc players. |
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| ________ units, which use a WORM (Write Once Read Many) format, are very useful in a digital media production environment. |
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The _______ system gives the opportunity to write, erase, overwrite and read
CD information. |
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| A ______ can hold up to 5.2 GB of data, as opposed to 650 MB or 700 MB for CD-ROMs. |
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| _________ is the DVD standard for the video entertainment industry. |
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| _______________ supports the storage of various high-resolution digital audio formats, including DTS or Dolby surround. |
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| _______ is a WORM format used to store data. |
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| _____________ allows for the re-recording of data over existing data on the disc. |
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| _______________________ is a subset of RT3D that provides an immersive experience in which the user can participate. |
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| ________________ are helmet-like devices with a small computer monitor for each eye. |
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| __________are planar, closed multi-sided figures. |
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| ____________ have different reflective properties that we can use to give a realistic appearance to the object in regards to lighting. |
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| _____________ are two-dimensional images placed on a surface of a model to give it color and its “look”. |
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| __________ are two-dimensional images that create the look of real texture on the model. |
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| The _________ are a combination of coordinates, usually expressed in dimensions of X, Y, and Z, and Roll, Pitch, and Yaw. |
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