Common File Types And Extensions

Question 1

Graphics

Answer 1

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

Paint

Question 2

Office

Answer 2

Docx, pptx

Microsoft Office
PowerPoint

Question 3

Audio

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Video

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Program

Answer 5

Exe
Com

Actual programs

Question 6

Portable Document Format

Answer 6

PDF

Adobe Reader

Meant for viewing not editing

Question 7

Compressed

Answer 7

Zip
Rar

WinZip
WinRAR

Question 8

Plain text

Answer 8

Txt

Wordpad

Question 9

Rich Text Format

Answer 9

rtf

Most word processers
Cannot be opened in Notepad
Microsoft WordPad

Can save more information than text files, includes different fonts

Question 10

Hypertext Markup Language

Answer 10

HTML
XHTML
. Htm

Web page which can be opened in a web browser

Question 11

How to use PDF safely

Answer 11

Can be converted to word, excel

Question 12

What happens to files when converting them to PDF

Answer 12

T compresses the file

Quicker to email

Question 13

Electronic publication

Answer 13

Epub

Flexible and portable format that allows publishets to customize eBooks

Used Calibre to read ePub documents

Question 14

Difference between between a text file and document file

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Document files

Answer 15

Doc
Docx
Often
Google Docs
LibreOffice

Question 16

Difference between an ODT and a DOCX document

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is open software

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is an office suite

Answer 18

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

Question 19

What is productivity software

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Animation

Answer 20

Animation is moving images

Gif
Dynamic HTML (Java, shockwave, flash)

Question 21

Examples of codec

Answer 21

FFMpeg
DivX
XviD
x264

Question 22

Difference between archiving and Compressing

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Presentation

Answer 23

Consists of a collection of slides for displaying as slideshows

Ppt
Pptx
Odp

Question 24

Spreadsheet

Answer 24

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

Xls
Xlsx
Ods

Question 25

Database

Answer 25

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