1. The most common pointing input device is the:
A) trackball.
B) mouse.
C) touchscreen.
D) touchpad.
2. The wheel located between the two standard buttons on a mouse is used to:
A) click in Web pages.
B) click and select items.
C) scroll.
D) jump to different Web pages.
3. A touchpad responds to:
A) light.
B) clicking.
C) pressure.
D) the sense of heat from fingertips.
4. A standardized test that you may have taken in entrance examination could have been scored by a(n):
A) bar code reader.
B) optical mark reader.
C) magnetic ink character reader.
D) scanner.
5. A ____________ is used to read handwritten or printed text to make a digital image that is stored in memory.
A) scanner
B) laser beam
C) printer
D) touchpad
6. OCR stands for:
A) optical coding recognizer.
B) ostensibly characterized reader.
C) optical character recognition.
D) original character reader.
7. OCR is a –
A) an input device.
B) firmware.
C) software.
D) hardware.
8. If employees reside in different parts of the country and need to meet monthly, useful computer technology would be:
A) video-display software.
B) videoconferencing.
C) video digitizing.
D) video scanning.
9. ____________ can interpret voice data into words that can be understood by the computer.
A) Speech input hardware
B) Speech recognition software
C) Word recognition software
D) Talking software
10. For a computer to recognize and understand analog data, it must first be –
A) sent to a mainframe for interpretation.
B) analyzed by the ALU of the CPU.
C) analyzed for viruses.
D) digitized.
Answers:
1.(b), 2.(c), 3.(c), 4.(b), 5.(a), 6.(c), 7.(c), 8(b), 9.(c), 10.(d)
