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Input Devices Exercises

The document contains a series of true/false statements and multiple-choice questions related to input devices, smart cards, and barcodes. It also includes short answer questions asking for advantages and disadvantages of smart cards compared to magnetic strip cards, as well as recommendations for input devices for different types of customers. The content focuses on technology and device functionality in various contexts.

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Input Devices Exercises

The document contains a series of true/false statements and multiple-choice questions related to input devices, smart cards, and barcodes. It also includes short answer questions asking for advantages and disadvantages of smart cards compared to magnetic strip cards, as well as recommendations for input devices for different types of customers. The content focuses on technology and device functionality in various contexts.

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TRUE/FALSE

1. RFID must be passed over a scanner


2. A smart card contains a microchip embedded in the card.
3. Digital cameras do not require film.
4. Biometric devices are less accurate than passwords.
5. Remote controls are now used by computers as a wireless input communications device.

Multiple Choice

1. What is the most common input device? (d) Left-handed keyboard


(a) Mouse
(b) Printer 6. Which of the following is not an advantage
(c) Monitor of magnetic strip codes?
(d) Keyboard (a) Easy and cheap to produce
(b) Strip can store enough information for
2. Which of the following is not a pointing simple transactions
device? (c) Data can be changed, altered, forged or
(a) Joystick erased by magnetic fields
(b) Printer (d) Cut down on paperwork that would
(c) Keyboard otherwise be involved in a transaction
(d) Mouse
7. Which of the following is not true about
3. A device that enables the user to control barcodes?
the movement of objects on the screen by (a) Cheaper than RFID
operating a small lever is: (b) Can be reused again and again
(a) Touch-sensitive screen (c) Can become difficult to read if they are
(b) Joystick ripped, soiled or removed
(c) Puck (d) Must be passed over a reader
(d) Light pen
8. OCR:
4. Which of these has a ball positioned at the (a) Detects marks on paper
top? (b) Detects the unique ridges in a
(a) Optical mouse fingerprint
(b) Pointing stick mouse (c) Understands and easily converts
(c) Touch pad mouse handwritten text.
(d) Trackball mouse (d) Detects the shape of characters

5. Which type of keyboard would most likely 9. Which of the following is a scanning device?
be used by a person with a physical (a) Optical mark reader
disability? (b) Touch pad
(a) Concept keyboard (c) Light pen
(b) Virtual keyboard (d) Remote control
(c) Alphanumeric keyboard

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. State TWO advantages and TWO disadvantages of a smart card over the magnetic strip card.
2. Five different types of customers have asked you to assist them in selecting input devices for their use.
Recommend suitable devices for each of them.
(a) A stay-at-home mother with two small children – a 3-year old and an 8-year old. She has a small
budget but uses the Internet often. Her children also uses the computer.
(b) Ms. Patrick has a small home office and works mainly from home but communicates with head
office frequently. She is a real-estate agent for a local real-estate company. She often needs to
send documents to the head office.

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