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INSY 2303 UTA Scott Final Exam - Questions AndAnswers
Digital vs. Analog ✔️Ans - digital reads a series of ones and zeros, while
analog reads a continuous flow of data.
Lossy ✔️Ans - Describes a method of compression in which data is lost in a
way that cannot be recovered from the compressed data.
Lossless Compression ✔️Ans - a data compression algorithm that allows
the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data.
pixel interpolation ✔️Ans - A process that is used by graphics software to
average the color of adjacent pixels in an image, usually when the image is
enlarged.
Data vs. Information ✔️Ans - Data = raw facts and figures. Information =
meaningful interpretation of data.
Bitmap vs. Vector Graphics ✔️Ans - Bitmap Graphics: an image, such as a
digital photo, that is stored as a grid work of colored dots.
Vector Graphics: an image generated from descriptions that specify the
position, length, and direction in which lines and shapes are drawn
3D graphics ✔️Ans - A digital graphics format that displays a three-
dimensional image in a two-dimensional space.
Vectors ✔️Ans - Lines and curves that form simple shapes
rendering ✔️Ans - In graphics software, the process of creating a 3D solid
image by covering a wireframe drawing and applying computer-generated
highlights and shadows
Ray tracing ✔️Ans - The technique for adding light and shadows to a 3-D
image
, Application ✔️Ans - Computer programs that help users perform a specific
task such as word processing. Also called application programs, applications,
or programs.
Operating System ✔️Ans - The software that controls the computer's use of
its hardware resources, such as memory and disk storage space. Also called an
OS.
Magnetic Storage ✔️Ans - A technology for recording data onto disks or
tape by magnetizing particles of an oxide-based surface coating.
Optical Storage ✔️Ans - A technology that records data as light and dark
spots on a CD, DVD, or other optical media
Solid state storage ✔️Ans - A technology that records data and stores it in a
microscopic grid of cells on a nonvolatile, erasable, low-power chip
Cloud Storage ✔️Ans - A storage area that is located on a remote server,
usually on the Internet, rather than on a local storage device
ALU ✔️Ans - (Arithmetic Logic Unit) The part of the CPU that performs
arithmetic and logical operations on the numbers stored in its registers
Control Unit ✔️Ans - The part of the microprocessor that directs and
coordinates processing.
RAM vs ROM ✔️Ans - RAM - RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
-is volatile; lose power, it forgets
-stores programs from the HD for the CPU to work w/in the present
-comes in many sizes, types, speeds
-a mobo can have only 1 size/type but many speeds
ROM - READ ONLY MEMORY
-stores info about how the computer works
-It is not volatile; does not forget w/o power
serial processing ✔️Ans - Processing data one instruction at a time,
completing one instruction before beginning another
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