FILES AND FOLDERS I

A ______________ is a collection of data stored in one unit, identified by a filename and a file extension

A file is a collection of data stored in one unit, identified by a ________ and a _____________

What are the 4 types of files?

____________ include text files, such as word documents, rich text format documents, portable document format, web pages and others

• documents

• pictures

• audio files

• video files

___________ include Joint Photographic Experts Group format (JPEG), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), Bitmap (BMP), and layered images files, such as photoshop files (PSDs)

• video files

• audio files

• pictures

• documents

____________ include moving picture expert group (mpeg) layer 3 (MP3), waveform audio file (WAV) and several others

• audio files

• video files

• documents

• pictures

__________ can be encoded in MPEG, Windows Media Video (WMV), or Digital Video (DV) formats

• video files

• audio files

• pictures

• documents

The last three or four characters after the period that make up an entire file name is called ___________. This helps the operating system determine which program on your computer the file is associated with

A ____________ is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention (file format) of its contents.

What are the 7 common file name extension?