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COMPETENCY-BASED
LEARNING MATERIALS
Sector:
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Qualification:
COMPUTER HARDWARE SEVICING NC II
Unit of Competency:
INSTALL COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS
Module Title:
Peripheral Devices/Multi Media System
6
INFORMATION SHEET 1.2-4
Peripheral Devices
Learning Objective:
After reading this INFORMATION SHEET, YOU MUST be able to be familiar with Peripheral
Devices.
Peripheral device is any component or piece of equipment that expands

a computer’s input, storage, and output capabilities. Peripheral devices serve
specific purpose, enhance a computer’s functions, or add new service or
additional resources.
1. Video Card - converts the processor’s output information into a
video signal that can be sent through a cable to the monitor.
2. Sound Card – enhances the computer’s sound-generating
capabilities by allowing sound to be output Philips Screw Driver-
Used to drive or fasten positive slotted screws through speakers
3. Monitor – is the display device that takes the electrical signals
from the video card and forms an image using points of colored
light on the screen.
4. Speaker – plays sounds transmitted as electrical signals from the
sound card.
5. Printer - an output device that produces text and graphics on
paper.
6. Keyboard – an input device that converts letters, numbers, and

other characters into electrical signals readable by the processors.
7. Mouse – is used for inputting commands and to manipulate

objects viewed on the computer display screen.
8. Microphone - a device that converts sounds to electrical signals by

means of a vibrating diaphragm.
9. Scanner - it is an input device that reads text or illustration
printed on paper, translates the information into a form that a
computer can use.
10. Digital Camera – use a light-sensitive processor chip to
capture photographic images in digital form on a small diskette
inserted in the camera or on flash memory chips.
11. Graphic tablet – objects are drawn using a pen or a puck.
The puck is technically a tablet cursor, not a mouse.
12. Joy Stick - a hand-held control stick that allows a player to
control the movements of a cursor on a computer screen or a
symbol in a video game .
SELF-CHECK 1.2-4
A. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Write the letter of the correct answer.
Use a separate sheet of paper in answering.
1. What do you call a device converts computer output into display images?
A. Floppy disk
B. Monitor
C. Printer
D. Processor
2. Which of the following is a secondary storage device?
A. Floppy Disk Drive
B. Memory Chip
C. Printer
D. Processor
3. If you want to enhance your computer’s capabilities, which would you
install?
A. Monitor
B. Sound Card
C. Speaker
D. Video Card
1. What part of the main circuit board would you connect a peripheral device
such as keyboard, printer or video monitor?
a. The Bus
b. Port
C. Expansion Slot
D. Cable
5. You want a hard copy of your input, which would provide you this?
A. Monitor
B. Printer
C. Speaker
D. Video Camera
ANSWER KEY 1.2-4
a) Multiple Choice.
1. b
2. a
3. d
4. b
5. b
INFORMATION SHEET 1.2-5
Multimedia Systems
Learning Objective:
After reading this INFORMATION SHEET, YOU MUST be able to operate and use Multimedia
Systems
Multimedia is the combination of different types of communication

media (sound, print, video, and so on)
Multimedia refers to computer system that lets the user access and
interact with computerized text high resolution still graphics, motion visuals,
and sound. Three elements in particular distinguish multimedia: sound,
motion, and the opportunity for interaction.
CD-ROM is the backbone of multimedia applications, a spinoff of audio

CD technology, stands for compact disk-read-only memory. The name implies
its application. CD ROM disks are created at a mastering facilities, just as
audio CDs are created at a recording studio. The following is a sampling of
available CD.
 The Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia

 The Oxford English Dictionary
 Microsoft Bookshelf
 Great Cities of the World
 Sound Effects
 The Animals
 World Atlas
 Dessert Storm and others
These days a desktop computer is usually a multimedia computer, with

sound and graphics capability. A multimedia computer features such
equipment as a fast processor, DVD device, sound card, graphics card and
speakers, and you may also wish to have headphones and microphones. You
may even wish to add scanner, sound recorder, and digital camera.
Multimedia presentations are becoming more and more prevalent. These

types of presentations are being used not only in encyclopedia and other
reference tools, but for selling a product or teaching a new concept.
SELF-CHECK 1.2-5
1. What is multimedia? Give examples of communication media.

2. Discuss the importance of multimedia in maintaining,
upgrading and repairing our Personal Computers.
ANSWER KEY 1.2-5
1. Multimedia is the combination of different types of communication media

(sound, print, video, and so on)
Multimedia refers to computer system that lets the user access and
interact with computerized text high resolution still graphics, motion visuals,
and sound. Three elements in particular distinguish multimedia: sound,
motion, and the opportunity for interaction.
2. Since CD-ROM is the backbone of multimedia applications we now have

different software applications that help the computer technician or even the
user to maintain, upgrade, install and repair our computers.
Also to be considered the different websites from the internet thathelp us in
solving and fixing related problems.

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COMPETENCY-BASED

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Peripheral Devices/Multi Media System

Peripheral device is any component or piece of equipment that expands

6. Keyboard – an input device that converts letters, numbers, and

7. Mouse – is used for inputting commands and to manipulate

8. Microphone - a device that converts sounds to electrical signals by

Multimedia is the combination of different types of communication

CD-ROM is the backbone of multimedia applications, a spinoff of audio

 The Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia

These days a desktop computer is usually a multimedia computer, with

Multimedia presentations are becoming more and more prevalent. These

1. What is multimedia? Give examples of communication media.

1. Multimedia is the combination of different types of communication media

2. Since CD-ROM is the backbone of multimedia applications we now have

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