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CMP-105 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA
INFORMATICS 2024
### Informatics Questions
1. **What does "informatics" mean?**
- A. Storing and processing food
- B. Storing, processing, and transmitting digital media
- C. Storing physical objects
- D. Studying computer science
**Answer: B. Storing, processing, and transmitting digital media**
2. **What is considered "digital media" in informatics?**
- A. Text, Image, Video, Audio
- B. Books, Paper, Magazines
- C. Furniture, Clothing, Tools
- D. Rocks, Soil, Plants
**Answer: A. Text, Image, Video, Audio**
3. **What is media?**
- A. Tools for cooking
- B. Communication tools used to store and deliver information or data
- C. Methods for transportation
- D. Software applications
**Answer: B. Communication tools used to store and deliver information or data**
4. **What is data?**
- A. Processed and organized information
- B. Raw and unorganized facts that need processing to have meaning
- C. Completed projects
- D. Graphs and charts
**Answer: B. Raw and unorganized facts that need processing to have meaning**
5. **What is information?**
- A. Raw, unorganized facts
- B. Fictional stories
- C. Structured, organized, processed data that is interpreted
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- D. Numbers and letters
**Answer: C. Structured, organized, processed data that is interpreted**
### Types and Characteristics of Media Questions
6. **List some types of media:**
- A. Images, Newspapers, Movies, Broadcasting, Streaming, Games, Video conferences
- B. Rocks, Metals, Plants
- C. Food, Drinks, Spices
- D. Tables, Chairs, Desks
**Answer: A. Images, Newspapers, Movies, Broadcasting, Streaming, Games, Video conferences**
7. **What are the main factors that differentiate media?**
- A. Color, Size, Shape
- B. Storage, Transmission channels, Systems, and Services
- C. Taste, Smell, Texture
- D. Weight, Height, Length
**Answer: B. Storage, Transmission channels, Systems, and Services**
8. **What are the two types of storage for media?**
- A. Physical and Chemical
- B. Physical and Non-physical storage
- C. Organic and Inorganic
- D. Solid and Liquid
**Answer: B. Physical and Non-physical storage**
9. **What is physical storage of digital media?**
- A. Only stored on the internet
- B. Split into analog and digital media
- C. Stored in cloud services
- D. Stored on paper
**Answer: B. Split into analog and digital media**
10. **What is analog physical media?**
- A. Has a fixed set of values, like volume buttons
- B. Has no fixed set of values, like a twistable volume knob
- C. Is only digital and stored on computers
- D. Cannot be stored at all
**Answer: B. Has no fixed set of values, like a twistable volume knob**
11. **What is digital physical media?**
- A. Can be any shape or size
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- B. Has a fixed set of values, like volume buttons
- C. Uses natural elements for storage
- D. Has no specific structure
**Answer: B. Has a fixed set of values, like volume buttons**
12. **What is non-physical media?**
- A. Physical books and magazines
- B. Media that is entirely digital, like MP3 files
- C. Physical CDs and DVDs
- D. Tangible art and sculptures
**Answer: B. Media that is entirely digital, like MP3 files**
### Media Transmission Questions
13. **What do "transmission channels" refer to?**
- A. Methods of cooking
- B. How media is distributed
- C. Types of storage devices
- D. Different kinds of animals
**Answer: B. How media is distributed**
14. **What are the different types of media transmission channels?**
- A. Fast and Slow
- B. Bright and Dark
- C. Live (digital or analog) and On Demand (digital or analog)
- D. Wet and Dry
**Answer: C. Live (digital or analog) and On Demand (digital or analog)**
15. **What are examples of live, digital media transmission?**
- A. Printed newspapers
- B. DVDs and CDs
- C. DVB-T, live video stream
- D. Clay tablets
**Answer: C. DVB-T, live video stream**
16. **What are examples of live, analog media transmission?**
- A. Blogs and websites
- B. Radio, satellite TV
- C. Digital cameras
- D. Online videos
**Answer: B. Radio, satellite TV**
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17. **What are examples of on-demand, digital media transmission?**
- A. Handwritten letters
- B. Videos, podcasts, image galleries, blogs
- C. Live sports broadcasts
- D. Chalk drawings
**Answer: B. Videos, podcasts, image galleries, blogs**
18. **What are examples of on-demand, analog media transmission?**
- A. Digital books
- B. TV shows on streaming services
- C. Newspapers, magazines
- D. Emails
**Answer: C. Newspapers, magazines**
### Challenges and Concepts in Digital Media
19. **What is media discontinuity?**
- A. Smooth transition of data
- B. When data changes form from how it was received
- C. The creation of new data
- D. Continuous data flow
**Answer: B. When data changes form from how it was received**
20. **What are some challenges of modern digital media?**
- A. Cooking, Cleaning, Maintenance
- B. Transformation to digital, Authoring and production, Interaction
- C. Gardening, Traveling, Exercising
- D. Driving, Reading, Writing
**Answer: B. Transformation to digital, Authoring and production, Interaction**
21. **What are challenges associated with transforming media to digital?**
- A. Easy to create physical copies
- B. Hard to distribute and access without proper devices
- C. Simple to use
- D. Not necessary to have internet access
**Answer: B. Hard to distribute and access without proper devices**
22. **What are some challenges in authoring and producing digital media?**
- A. Cheap equipment, Simple tools
- B. Requires high-level expertise and expensive equipment
- C. Easy to learn
- D. Free for everyone to use
