Technology In Action Complete 15th Edition by Alan Evans

Technology In Action Complete 15th Edition by Alan Evans

Technology in Action, Complete, 15e (Evans et al.)

Chapter 8 Managing a Digital Lifestyle: Media and Ethics

1) What does the Digital Living Network Alliance standardize?

1. A) The compilation of available e-texts.
2. B) The codecs used in video compression.
3. C) The sampling rate used to create MP3 files.
4. D) The convergence of devices.

Answer: D

Diff: 3

Objective: 8.01 Describe how digital convergence has evolved.

2) The term ________ refers to the use of a single unifying device that handles media, Internet, entertainment, and telephone needs.

1. A) multimedia message service
2. B) telephony
3. C) mobile switching center
4. D) digital convergence

Answer: D

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.01 Describe how digital convergence has evolved.

3) What kind of e-book reader does Barnes and Noble sell?

1. A) NOOK
2. B) Kindle
3. C) VitalSource
4. D) Fire

Answer: A

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.04 Explain how to purchase, borrow, and publish e-texts.

4) What happens after 180 days to e-books rented through VitalSource?

1. A) They are encrypted until you purchase them.
2. B) They show up in your library, but cannot be read.
3. C) They disappear from your device.
4. D) Only the first chapter can be read.

Answer: C

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.04 Explain how to purchase, borrow, and publish e-texts.

5) What is a system of access control that allows only limited use of material that has been legally purchased?

1. A) DDM
2. B) DRM
3. C) DRR
4. D) MDR

Answer: B

Diff: 3

Objective: 8.06 Summarize how to listen to and publish digital music.

6) Google ________ is an online store that can be used for self-publishing books.

1. A) Fun
2. B) Games
3. C) Play
4. D) Sport

Answer: C

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.04 Explain how to purchase, borrow, and publish e-texts.

7) A(n) ________ chip converts sound waves from a voice into a digital signal.

1. A) analog-to-digital converter
2. B) digital convergence
3. C) digital signal processor
4. D) telephony

Answer: A

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.05 Describe how digital music is created and stored.

8) What is NOT an example of a method to stream music?

1. A) Pandora
2. B) Google Tunes
3. C) Spotify
4. D) Apple CarPlay

Answer: B

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.06 Summarize how to listen to and publish digital music.

9) ________ property is a product of a person’s mind and is usually considered an expression of human creativity?

1. A) Abstract
2. B) Intellectual
3. C) Tangible
4. D) Personal

Answer: B

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.09 Describe the various types of intellectual property.

10) The Apple logo would be considered a(n) ________.

1. A) copyright
2. B) service mark
3. C) patent
4. D) trademark

Answer: D

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.09 Describe the various types of intellectual property.

11) To protect a movie, what category of intellectual property would be used?

1. A) Copyright
2. B) Trademark
3. C) Service mark
4. D) Patent

Answer: A

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.10 Explain how copyright is obtained and the rights granted to the owners.

12) When does copyright protection begin?

1. A) When the application for the copyright has been approved
2. B) When the application for the copyright has been submitted
3. C) When a work is begun
4. D) When a work is created and fixed into a digital or physical form

Answer: D

Diff: 3

Objective: 8.10 Explain how copyright is obtained and the rights granted to the owners.

13) Creative Commons licenses are ________.

1. A) temporary
2. B) irrevocable
3. C) used mostly for software
4. D) used mostly for movies

Answer: B

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.10 Explain how copyright is obtained and the rights granted to the owners.

14) A violation of the holder’s rights is known as copyright ________.

1. A) violation
2. B) infringement
3. C) defrauding
4. D) abuse

Answer: B

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.11 Explain copyright infringement, summarize the potential consequences, and describe situations in which you can legally use copyrighted material.

15) Which is NOT a reason someone might risk violating a copyright?

1. A) The risk of being caught is very low.
2. B) It is hard to prove the copyright in court.
3. C) Everyone else is doing it.
4. D) I am just one person.

Answer: B

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.11 Explain copyright infringement, summarize the potential consequences, and describe situations in which you can legally use copyrighted material.

16) What is the act of copying text or ideas from someone else and claiming them as your own?

1. A) Copyright abuse
2. B) Trademark infringement
3. C) Plagiarism
4. D) Copyleft

Answer: C

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.12 Explain plagiarism and strategies for avoiding it.

17) Instead of writing a term paper, some people cheat and purchase one from a(n) ________.

1. A) paper mill
2. B) term paper resource
3. C) academic wholesale house
4. D) academic paper resource

Answer: A

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.12 Explain plagiarism and strategies for avoiding it.

18) What is a popular copyleft license used for software?

1. A) Creative Commons (CC)
2. B) General Public License (GNU)
3. C) Software Copy License (SCL)
4. D) NonCommercial (NC)

Answer: B

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.10 Explain how copyright is obtained and the rights granted to the owners.

19) What is a website that allows an instructor to upload a paper to check for plagiarism?

1. A) checkit.com
2. B) plagiarism.com
3. C) turnitin.com
4. D) checkthatpaper.com

Answer: C

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.12 Explain plagiarism and strategies for avoiding it.

20) What is a good rule to follow to avoid plagiarism?

1. A) Cite every fact you use.
2. B) Never cite from another source.
3. C) When in doubt, cite your source.
4. D) Cite every comment.

Answer: C

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.12 Explain plagiarism and strategies for avoiding it.

21) Works without copyright protection are considered to be in the ________.

1. A) public domain
2. B) free use domain
3. C) trademark zone
4. D) copyleft domain

Answer: A

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.10 Explain how copyright is obtained and the rights granted to the owners.

22) Which of the following is NOT true about e-books?

1. A) You can borrow them from the library.
2. B) They are always PDF file format.
3. C) You can annotate them with your own notes.
4. D) Amazon sells more e-books now than printed books.

Answer: B

Diff: 3

Objective: 8.03 Describe the different types of e-readers.

23) ________ is digital textual information that can be stored, manipulated, and transmitted by electronic devices.

1. A) Short message service
2. B) SMTP
3. C) E-text
4. D) Digital rights management

Answer: C

Diff: 3

Objective: 8.03 Describe the different types of e-readers.

24) How long do current U.S. laws grant copyright protection?

1. A) The life of the author (creator) plus 70 years
2. B) The life of the author (creator) plus 50 years
3. C) 99 years
4. D) 101 years

Answer: A

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.10 Explain how copyright is obtained and the rights granted to the owners.

25) Which of the following is NOT an example of a digital music file format?

1. A) WMA
2. B) MP3
3. C) AAC
4. D) ACCDB

Answer: D

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.05 Describe how digital music is created and stored.

26) ________ allows only limited use of media that has been legally purchased.

1. A) Digital rights management
2. B) Copyright
3. C) Copyleft
4. D) Synchronizing

Answer: A

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.06 Summarize how to listen to and publish digital music.

27) Which of the following describes the number of times an analog wave is measured each second during an analog-to-digital conversion?

1. A) Converting rate
2. B) Conversion rate
3. C) Simplifying rate
4. D) Sampling rate

Answer: D

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.05 Describe how digital music is created and stored.

28) Which of the following digital formats compress an image file?

1. A) AAC
2. B) RAW
3. C) JPEG
4. D) MPEG

Answer: C

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.07 Explain how best to create, print, and share digital photos.

29) Which of the following is NOT a video file extension?

1. A) .jpg
2. B) .mpg
3. C) .avi
4. D) .mov

Answer: A

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.08 Describe how to create, edit, and distribute digital video.

30) A(n) ________ cable carries all audio and video information from one devices to another connected device.

1. A) HDMI
2. B) S component
3. C) Ethernet
4. D) RJ11

Answer: A

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.08 Describe how to create, edit, and distribute digital video.

31) A(n) ________ is anything designed to deceive another person either as a practical joke or for financial gain.

Answer: hoax

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.13 Describe hoaxes and digital manipulation.

32) When a hoax becomes so well known that it is incorporated into society as a true event, it is known as a(n) ________.

Answer: urban legend

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.13 Describe hoaxes and digital manipulation.

33) Digital ________ involves altering media so that the images captured are changed from the way they were originally seen by the human eye.

Answer: manipulation

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.13 Describe hoaxes and digital manipulation.

34) Google ________ is a subscription service that lets you listen to tracks in their catalog.

Answer: Play; Play Music

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.05 Describe how digital music is created and stored.

35) The tendency of information to remains on the Internet indefinitely is known as ________ of information.

Answer: persistence

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.14 Describe what comprises your online reputation and how to protect it.

36) Your online ________ consists of the information available about you in cyberspace that can influence people’s opinions of you in the real world.

Answer: reputation

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.14 Describe what comprises your online reputation and how to protect it.

37) Employment ________ means that unless you’re covered by an employment contract or a collective bargaining agreement, employers can fire you at any time for any reason, unless the reason violates a legal statute.

Answer: at-will; at will

Diff: 3

Objective: 8.14 Describe what comprises your online reputation and how to protect it.

38) You have a constitutional right to ________ speech.

Answer: free

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.14 Describe what comprises your online reputation and how to protect it.

39) The ________ Machine is a utility that shows you what a website looked like at a previous point in time.

Answer: Wayback

Diff: 3

Objective: 8.14 Describe what comprises your online reputation and how to protect it.

40) MLA stands for ________ Language Association.

Answer: Modern

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.12 Explain plagiarism and strategies for avoiding it.

41) Failing to identify a direct quotation with quotation marks is an example of ________.

Answer: plagiarism

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.12 Explain plagiarism and strategies for avoiding it.

42) Reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson is commonly known as educational ________ use.

Answer: fair

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.11 Explain copyright infringement, summarize the potential consequences, and describe situations in which you can legally use copyrighted material.

43) Many websites that contain copyrighted material also contain lengthy legal documents that delineate the ________ of use for the material that you download.

Answer: terms

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.11 Explain copyright infringement, summarize the potential consequences, and describe situations in which you can legally use copyrighted material.

44) Illegally using copyrighted software is known as software ________.

Answer: piracy

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.11 Explain copyright infringement, summarize the potential consequences, and describe situations in which you can legally use copyrighted material.

45) Works in the public ________ are considered public property and therefore, anyone can modify, distribute, copy, or sell them for profit.

Answer: domain

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.10 Explain how copyright is obtained and the rights granted to the owners.

46) The FedEx logo is a ________ mark.

Answer: service

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.09 Describe the various types of intellectual property.

47) The main grayscale technology for e-text display on the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Barnes and Noble NOOK is ________.

Answer: E Ink; electronic ink

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.03 Describe the different types of e-readers.

48) The ________ is the number of times that an analog wave is measured each second in an analog-to-digital conversion.

Answer: sampling rate

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.05 Describe how digital music is created and stored.

49) The size of an MP3 file depends on the digital ________ of the song.

Answer: sampling

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.05 Describe how digital music is created and stored.

50) Digital camera resolution is measured in ________.

Answer: megapixels; MP

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.07 Explain how best to create, print, and share digital photos.

51) The most common file types supported by digital cameras are raw uncompressed (RAW) data and ________.

Answer: Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG); jpg; JPEG

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.07 Explain how best to create, print, and share digital photos.

52) The ________ of a digital camera refers to the number of data points recorded for a captured image.

Answer: resolution

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.07 Explain how best to create, print, and share digital photos.

53) A(n) ________ is a rule that squeezes the same audio and video information into less space.

Answer: codec; compression/decompression

Diff: 3

Objective: 8.08 Describe how to create, edit, and distribute digital video.

54) ________ is a term used to refer to various licensing plans that enable copyright holders to grant certain rights to the work while retaining other rights.

Answer: Copyleft; Copy left

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.10 Explain how copyright is obtained and the rights granted to the owners.

55) A copyright holder cannot loan, rent, or give away the work.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.10 Explain how copyright is obtained and the rights granted to the owners.

56) Facts cannot be copyrighted.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.11 Explain copyright infringement, summarize the potential consequences, and describe situations in which you can legally use copyrighted material.

57) Plagiarism is usually considered an academic offense of dishonesty and isn’t punishable under U.S. civil law.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.12 Explain plagiarism and strategies for avoiding it.

58) Pictures you find on Google image search are considered to be in the public domain.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.09 Describe the various types of intellectual property.

59) YouTube is the entity legally responsible for its content, rather than the person who uploaded the content.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.11 Explain copyright infringement, summarize the potential consequences, and describe situations in which you can legally use copyrighted material.

60) Patents last for a period of 30 years from the date the patent is filed.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.09 Describe the various types of intellectual property.

61) A trade dress applies to the visual appearance of a product or its packaging.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.09 Describe the various types of intellectual property.

62) A physical music CD is an example of intellectual property.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.09 Describe the various types of intellectual property.

63) DRM-free music can legally be moved from system to system.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.06 Summarize how to listen to and publish digital music.

64) The conversion rate is the number of times per second that the analog signal is measured and converted into a digital value.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.02 Explain the differences between digital and analog signals.

65) When converting analog waves to a series of numerical values, the higher the sampling rate, the more accurately the original wave can be recreated.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.05 Describe how digital music is created and stored.

66) RAW files are larger in size than JPEG files.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.07 Explain how best to create, print, and share digital photos.

67) Real property is considered immoveable, such as land or a home.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.09 Describe the various types of intellectual property.

68) Intangible personal property has no value.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.09 Describe the various types of intellectual property.

69) In terms of video resolution, HD stands for highly digitized.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.08 Describe how to create, edit, and distribute digital video.

70) Many cameras support wireless connections so you can transfer images without connecting cables.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1

Objective: 8.07 Explain how best to create, print, and share digital photos.

71) Match each of the following terms to its definition:

1. MP3
2. AAC

III. ADC

1. WMV
2. SD

1. storage card for media
2. digital video file format which includes both audio and video
3. digital music file format used broadly
4. default digital music file format with iTunes
5. converts audio signals into digital signals

Answer: C, D, E, B, A

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.05 Describe how digital music is created and stored.

72) Match each of the following terms to its definition:

1. resolution
2. digital

III. analog

1. CCD
2. codec

1. a rule that squeezes audio and video information into less space
2. number of data points used to capture an image
3. data encoded as zeros and ones
4. electronic sensor used in digital cameras
5. continuous sound or light waves

Answer: B, C, E, D, A

Diff: 3

Objective: Multiple Objectives in the Chapter

73) Match each of the following terms to its definition:

1. NOOK
2. Kindle

III. e-text

1. e-reader
2. E ink

1. textual information captured digitally
2. sharp grayscale representation of text
3. sold by Amazon
4. device that displays e-text
5. sold by Barnes and Noble

Answer: E, C, A, D, B

Diff: 2

Objective: 8.03 Describe the different types of e-readers.

74) Match each of the following terms to its definition:

1. digital-to-analog converter
2. MPEG-4

III. ripping

1. analog-to-digital converter
2. codec

1. changes zeros and ones to a continuous analog wave
2. converting a song on a CD to a digital computer file
3. changes your voice’s sound waves into digital signals
4. usually has a .mp4 extension
5. rule using hardware or software that compresses audio and video information

Answer: A, D, B, C, E

Diff: 2

Objective: Multiple Objectives in the Chapter

75) Match each of the following terms to its definition:

1. copyleft
2. sampling rate

III. trademark

1. fair use
2. digital rights management

1. granting of certain rights to a work while retaining other rights
2. allows only limited use of legally purchased materials
3. allows McDonalds to protect its logo
4. allows people to use portions of a copyrighted work for specific purposes
5. number of times an analog wave is measured

Answer: A, E, C, D, B

Diff: 2

Objective: Multiple Objectives in the Chapter