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Term1 Year10 Practice Set3

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  • State two types of touch screen.
    capacitive and resistive
  • There are 3 types of storage devices. Hdd, SSd and ____.
    Optical disk drives
  • How resistive touch screens work?
    Pressure causes two layers under screen to touch and make a connection.
  • capacitive touch screen has layer of capacitive material that conducts charge from finger. True or False.
    True
  • Dot matric printers are also called impact printers because they have to hit paper through a ribbon of ink.
    True
  • State two advantages of biometric scanners.
    can't be forgotten, harder to trick or confuse them, faster, not restricted by language.
  • State two features of data projectors
    light bulbs, resolution, zooming, portability
  • State one benefit of using sensors.
    Can place in remote areas, always working, less human error, sense things that humans cant
  • State two actuators (control devices).
    piston, valve, heater, cooler, motor
  • Why smart phones have a shorter battery life?
    They combine many features, so they use more power and have to be charged more regularly
  • fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, voice recognition and iris recognition are _____.
    Biometric scanners
  • When reading data, read/write head changes magnetic field to electric current. True or False
    True