Common File Types And Extensions Flashcards

1
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Graphics

A

JPEG (joint photographic Experts Group)
gif ( graphics interchange format)
PNG ( portable network graphics)
BMP (bitmap image)
Tiff ( tagged image file format)

Paint

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2
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Office

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Docx, pptx

Microsoft Office
PowerPoint

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3
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Audio

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Mp3 ( moving picture experts group layer 3 audio)
AAC ( Advanced audio coding)
Flac ( Free lossless audio codec)
Wma ( Microsoft Windows Media Audio)

Windows media player

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4
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Video

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MP4
AVI
FLV
WMV

Windows media player

Video files are made up of a container and a codec
Codec is used to compress and decompress the video where the video files are too big causing the video not to play or be downloaded

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5
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Program

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Exe
Com

Actual programs

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6
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Portable Document Format

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PDF

Adobe Reader

Meant for viewing not editing

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7
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Compressed

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Zip
Rar

WinZip
WinRAR

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8
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Plain text

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Txt

Wordpad

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9
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Rich Text Format

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rtf

Most word processers
Cannot be opened in Notepad
Microsoft WordPad

Can save more information than text files, includes different fonts

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10
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Hypertext Markup Language

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HTML
XHTML
. Htm

Web page which can be opened in a web browser

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11
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How to use PDF safely

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Can be converted to word, excel

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12
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What happens to files when converting them to PDF

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T compresses the file

Quicker to email

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13
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Electronic publication

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Epub

Flexible and portable format that allows publishets to customize eBooks

Used Calibre to read ePub documents

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14
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Difference between between a text file and document file

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A document file can store more complex information such as custom formatting options and styles, while a text file only stores plain text

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15
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Document files

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Doc
Docx
Often
Google Docs
LibreOffice

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16
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Difference between an ODT and a DOCX document

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ODT file is an open document text created by a different word processor

17
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What is open software

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Software people can modify and share because it’s design is publicly accessible

18
Q

What is an office suite

A

Collection of software created by the same vendor and designed to be used for routine tasks within an organization

19
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What is productivity software

A

Category of application programs that help users produce things such as documents, databases, graphs, worksheets and presentations

20
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Animation

A

Animation is moving images

Gif
Dynamic HTML (Java, shockwave, flash)

21
Q

Examples of codec

A

FFMpeg
DivX
XviD
x264

22
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Difference between archiving and Compressing

A

Archiving is the process of collecting and storing a group of filed and directories into one folder

Compression is the act of shrinking the size of a file, which is quite useful in sending large files over the internet

23
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Presentation

A

Consists of a collection of slides for displaying as slideshows

Ppt
Pptx
Odp

24
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Spreadsheet

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Data arranged in the rows and columns of a grid and can be used in calculations

Xls
Xlsx
Ods

25
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Database

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Systematic collection of data

Example: an online telephone directory uses a database to store data of people, phone numbers and other contact details

Accdb
Sql
Mdb