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IT Literacy
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it-skills
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literacy
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 1) Saves printing costs after initial software purchase. 2) Saves time traveling back to commercial printer b/c you can use a personal printer. 3) Reduces # of publication errors. 4) Allows more people to publish.
Storage Devices
Advantages of DTP
Netiquette
Training software
2. An undocumented way of gaining access to a program - online service - or entire computer system - written by a programmer who created the code; Can be a security hazard because it is vulnerable to hackers
Responsibilities of System Admin
Unicode
Backdoor
Netiquette
3. An individual responsible for maintaining a multi-user computer system
range
System Administrator
Image Processing Software
worksheet
4. 1) Mathematical calculations faster w/ more accuracy; 2) storing vast amounts of data; 3) recall information
Utility Program Features
Humans < Computers (3)
Domains
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
5. Random Access Memory; Memory that stores program instructions and data temporarily
Machine learning
RAM
Template
proportionally spaced fonts
6. Small files deposited on a user's hard disk by Web sites - enabling sites to remember what they know about their visitors between sessions.
Cookies
Video teleconference
Encryption
Integrated Software
7. 1) Poor at planning strategies (less creativity than humans) and can't make decisions (after diagnosis - can't say how to treat patient); 2) powerless outside narrow (but deep) domain of knowledge
Augmented Reality
thesaurus
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Painting Software
8. Multimedia that enables the user to take an active part in the experience.
Bandwidth
Logic Bomb
Interactive Multimedia
Page-Layout Software
9. 1) Amount of network traffic; 2) size/type of file being transferred; 3) type/quality of network connection
Analog Signal
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
MB
10. Process of saving data - esp. for data recovery. Many systems automatically back up data and software onto disks or tapes
Speech recognition
function
Backup
MB
11. Software for editing digital video - including titles - sound and special effects.
Worm
Video Editing Software
Drawing Software
GUI
12. American Standard Code for Information Interchange; A code that represents characters as 8-bit codes. Allows the binary computer to work with letters - digits and special characters
ASCII
Commercial Software
Logic Bomb
cell format
13. Face-to-face communication over long distances using video and computer technology.
Video teleconference
Video Editing Software
Speech recognition
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
14. Documentation and help available through a software company's Web site
Training software
Parallel processing
Online help
Global positioning system
15. In desktop publishing - the articles - chapters - drawings - maps - charts - and photographs that are to appear in the publication. Usually produces with standard word processors and graphics programs.
Utility Program
Login Name
Source Document
Cracking
16. Text entry providing information of the contents of a row/column
ebook (Electronic Book)
cell format
Cracking
label
17. A defense department system with 24 satellites that can pinpoint any location on the Earth.
Global positioning system
worksheet
Software Piracy
Input Devices
18. Bit depth; the number of bits devoted to each pixel.
Input Devices
RAM
cell format
Color Depth
19. Worksheets which contain labels and formulas but no data values; instant answers are produced when information is provided
Rules of Netiquette (6)
template
Knowledge base
OMR
20. Predefined set of calculations (i.e. SUM and AVERAGE)
Turning Test
Utility Program Features
Hyperlink
function
21. Wide Area Network ; A network that extends over a long distance. Each network site is a node on the network
Knowledge base
Kerning
WAN
Peripheral
22. Software or hardware that guards against unauthorized access to an internal network
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Virtual Reality (VR)
Firewall
Model + / ?
23. Protects transmitted information by scrambling the transmissions; When a user encrypts a message by applying a secret numerical code (encryption key) - the message can be read only after it's been reconstructed with a matching key
Encryption
Virtual Reality (VR)
Digital television
Tutorial software
24. Language that people speak/write everyday.
Disadvantages of ebooks
Natural language
Integrated Software
Turning Test
25. The quantity of information that can be transmitted through a communication medium in a given amount of time. (more bandwidth = faster transmission)
Encryption
Master Pages
Bitmapped Graphics
Bandwidth
26. Enables you to 'paint' pixels on the screen with a pointing device.
System Administrator
Painting Software
Camera-Ready
Byte
27. Block that appears at the top of every page in a document displaying repetitive information such as chapter title
LAN
header
thesaurus
Training software
28. Information in a form that can be read - used and manipulated by a computer
Packet-switching
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
Data
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
29. Most common security tools used to restrict access to computer systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
FTP (file transfer protocol)
Feedback Loop
Password
30. A computer model of a real life situation used to see how a model operates under certain conditions
Simulation
Image analysis
TB
GB
31. A business that provides its customers with connections to the Internet (along with other services).
ISP (Internet service provider)
template
ROM
Cracking
32. Using a computer to create - edit and print documents
Arpanet
Factors that control image quality (2)
Advantages of Robots (3)
word processing
33. 1) color depth; 2) resolution
Resolution
Trojan Horse
Biometrics
Factors that control image quality (2)
34. Graphics in which images are stored and manipulated as organized collections of pixels rather than as shapes and lines. Contrast with object-oriented graphics.
Disadvantages of telecommuting (3)
Intranet
automatic correction
Bitmapped Graphics
35. Created: 1) URL; 2) HTML; 3) HTTP://; 4) first 'browser'
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
Information
UPS
grammar and style checker
36. The use of computer displays that add virtual information to a person's sensory perceptions - supplementing rather than replacing (as in virtual reality) the world the user sees.
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
GUI Advantages
Server
Augmented Reality
37. Part of the computer which processes information - performs arithmetic calculations - and makes basic decisions based on information values
Processor
range
Search engine
Simulation
38. Communicates with peripherals; Coordinates the concurrent processing of tasks; Manages memory; Keeps track of location of all programs/files of hard drive
macro
Operating System Advantages
Compatibility
Pattern recognition
39. Microsoft Powerpoint
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
template
An example of presentation-graphics software
Advantages of digital television (3)
40. Provides direct instruction in a clearly specified skill of subject
Hacker
Video Editing Software
Tutorial software
Simulation
41. Instructions that tell the hardware what to do to transform the input into out put
Leading
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
Software
Pull technology
42. A database that contains both facts - and a system of rules for determining and changing the relationship among those facts.
ebook (Electronic Book)
Ergonomics
Machine learning
Knowledge base
43. A program for locating information on the Web. (uses Web crawlers)
Search engine
Advantages of Robots (3)
Common-sense knowledge
Gigahertz
44. Software that derives logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true. ('If... then...' logic)
cell format
Compatibility
Inference engine
Teleconference
45. Identifying recurring patterns in input data with the goal of understand or categorizing that input. (Easy for humans) (Ex: fingerprint identification - handwriting recognition - speech recognition - optional character recognition)
Animation
Pattern recognition
Software License
Source Document
46. A computer especially designed to provide software and other resources to other computers over a network
Server
WAN
Advantages of Robots (3)
Humans < Computers (3)
47. An online meeting between 2 or more people; done in 'real time' (ex: IM [instant messaging])
Open-Source Software
Knowledge engineer
Logic Bomb
Teleconference
48. Software help agent that walks the user through a complex process
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
grammar and style checker
outliner
Wizard
49. The address of a Web site. (unique)
URL (uniform resource locator)
User Interface
Logic Bomb
Advantages of Robots (3)
50. 1) Robot must not injure a human or - by inaction - allow a human to come to harm; 2) must obey orders given by humans (except where the order conflicts w/ first law); 3) must protect its own existence (w/o conflicting w/ first & second law)
automatic correction
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
Augmented Reality
UPS