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H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E
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MultimediaTechnologies

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UsethemultiplechoiceanswersheetforQuestions 110.

Inwhichofthefollowingdoallthefileformatsrefertovideo?
(A) AVI,MP4,MPEG
(B)

AVI,MP4,WAV

(C)

MP3,PNG,WMA

(D) MP3,MP4,MPEG

Whichofthefollowingdevicesismostsuitableforproducinganoriginaldigitalsketch?
(A) Agraphicstablet
(B)

Aflatbedscanner

(C)

Acomputermouse

(D) Adigitalstillscamera

Whichtypeofgraphicmaintainsqualitywhenitisrescaled?
(A) Bitmap
(B)

JPEG

(C)

TIFF

(D) Vector

Whichaspectofsoundismeasuredindecibels?
(A) Pitch
(B)

Volume

(C)

Frequency

(D) Wavelength

Agamedesignerusescodewrittenbysomeoneelseandpresentsthecodeastheirown.
Whichwordbestdefinesthispractice?
(A) Copyright
(B) Piracy
(C) Plagiarism
(D) Privacy

Which of the following best describes the technique used to apply a time lapse effect to
videofootage?
(A) Usingstillphotographyimagestocreateasequenceforvideoplayback
(B) Loweringtheframerateoffootagetoslowdownthemotionwhenplayedback
(C) Capturingvideofootageataslowerframeratethantheframeratewhenplayedback
(D) Capturing a sequence of images to create the illusion of movement when played
back

Whichtypeofanimationprocessallowsformultiplecomponentstoanimateautomatically?
(A) Behaviour
(B) Celbased
(C) Pathbased
(D) Stopmotion

Whatisthepurposeofrendering3Danimations?
(A) Toapplymotiontotheobjectsintheanimation
(B) Totransformthewireframemodelintotheanimation
(C) Toapplyacolourtothesurfaceofthewireframemodels
(D) Totransformtheanimationintoaformattobeplayedbackusingothersoftware

Aninternetconnectionhasadownloadspeedof16.8 megabitspersecond.
Approximatelyhowlongwouldittaketodownloada120.6 megabytevideofile?
(A) 7seconds
(B) 8seconds
(C) 57seconds
(D) 58seconds

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What is the maximum number of 1.8 MB photos that can be saved to an external drive
with50 GBoffreespace?
(A) 27 666

(B) 27 777

(C) 28 444

(D) 28 888

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Question 11 (2marks)
Alogo withatransparent background is to be incorporated into a website.

IdentifyTWOappropriategraphicsfile formats to display thelogo.

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Question 12 (3marks)
A video preview of a new computer game is to be created using screen capture
techniques.
Describefactorsthatwillaffectthequalityofvideocapturedusingsuchtechniques.
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Howisthequalityofagraphicaffectedifthecolourdepthisreduced?

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Whataretheadvantagesofusingcascadingstylesheets(CSS)toproduceawebsite?
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Complete the table outlining an advantage and disadvantageofcelbasedanimation
techniquesandpathbasedanimationtechniques.
Celbasedanimation

Pathbasedanimation

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Question16 (15marks)
(a)

Explainwhyacompanyshouldcomplywithsafetystandards.

(b) Assessstrategiesthatacompanycouldimplementtoestablishandmaintaina
safeworkculture.

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