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IT Literacy
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Subjects
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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Allows documents of all types to be stored - viewed - or modified on any Windows or Macintosh computer - making it possible for many organizations to reduce paper flow.
proportionally spaced fonts
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
2. The narrow (but deep) knowledge base of an expert system.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Model + / ?
Domain
An example of presentation-graphics software
3. Using multiple processors to divide jobs into pieces and work simultaneously on the pieces (multitasking!)
Parallel processing
grammar and style checker
proportionally spaced fonts
Gigahertz
4. The combination of text - numbers - graphics - animation - sound effects - music and other media in a hyperlinked document.
Feedback Loop
Data
Logic Bomb
Hypermedia
5. Software programs that can ask questions - respond to commands - pay attention to users' work patters - serve as a guide and a coach - take on owner's goals - and use reasoning to fabricate their own goals.
Global positioning system
Software Piracy
Disadvantages of ebooks
Agent
6. 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
Image analysis
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Login Name
Worm
7. Software robots that systematically explore the Web - retrieve information about pages - and index the retrieved information in a database. (used by search engines)
LAN
Help file
Web crawlers
Rules of Netiquette (6)
8. Most common security tools used to restrict access to computer systems.
GUI
Password
FTP (file transfer protocol)
proportionally spaced fonts
9. Block that appears at the top of every page in a document displaying repetitive information such as chapter title
Analog Signal
Ethernet
header
An example of presentation-graphics software
10. Wide Area Network ; A network that extends over a long distance. Each network site is a node on the network
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Page-Layout Software
WAN
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
11. A specialist who interviews and observes experts - and converts their words and actions into a knowledge base.
Kerning
Knowledge engineer
Data
Domains
12. The use of computers to draw products or process designs on the screen.
serif fonts
Digital television
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Integrated Software
13. Fonts like those in the courier family that mimic typewriters; characters - no matter how narrow or wide - hold the same amount of space
monospaced fonts
WWW (world wide web)
Expert system
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
14. A class of Internet addresses indicated by a suffix such as: .com - .gov - .net
Help file
Image analysis
cell
Domains
15. The field of computer science devoted to making computers perceive - reason and act in ways that have - until now - been reserved for human beings.
Model + / ?
ebook (Electronic Book)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Worm
16. Small text file that comes with many software packages - and contains information not included in the official documentation
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
17. User Name; A one-word name that you type to identify yourself when connecting
Factors of a good pw...
Command-Line Interface
Login Name
Image Processing Software
18. Video reduced to a series of numbers (0 and 1) - which can be edited - stored - and played back without loss of quality.
Digital Video
Resolution
TB
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
19. Reference to a cell in relation to the current cell; modifies when copied
Vector Graphics
OCR
relative reference
Image Processing Software
20. Measure of character size (one point equals 1/72 inch)
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
Virtual Reality (VR)
point size
Global positioning system
21. Gigabyte; Approximately 1000 MB
GB
point size
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Data
22. Read-Only Memory; Memory that include permanent information only. The computer can only read information from in; it can never write any new information on it
ROM
Input Devices
ASCII
Digital Video
23. An agreement allowing the use of a software program on a single machine
Software Piracy
Trojan Horse
Software License
Download
24. Binary digit; The smallest unit of information. A bit can have two values: 0 or 1
Augmented Reality
Login Name
Bit
Advantages of digital television (3)
25. Free software that is not copyrighted - offered through World Wide Websites - electronic bulletin boards - user groups - and other sources
Information
Training software
Public Domain Software
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
26. A defense department system with 24 satellites that can pinpoint any location on the Earth.
Global positioning system
URL (uniform resource locator)
footer
TB
27. Size and style of typeface
Protocol
Peripheral
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
font
28. Worksheets which contain labels and formulas but no data values; instant answers are produced when information is provided
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
template
FTP (file transfer protocol)
Ethernet
29. Working from home by modem - as do many programmers - accountants - and other information workers.
Presentation-Graphics Software
Telecommuting
Machine learning
Packet-switching
30. The illegal duplication of copyrighted software
Bug
Utility Program Features
Fuzzy logic
Software Piracy
31. 1) outline your ideas; 2) remember your audience; 3) use large fonts; 4) be 'stingy' with words (bullets - summarize); 5) use a consistent design; 6) be smart with art (use appropriate graphics)
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
Advantages of DTP
formatting
'Read-me' file
32. Graphical User Interface; A user interface based on graphical displays. With a mouse - the user points to icons that represent files - folders - and disks. Documents are displayed in windows. The user selects commands from menus
GUI
Parallel processing
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
worksheet
33. Kilobyte; About 1000 bytes of information
formula
Peripheral
KB
Bar Code Reader
34. Software used as an introductory - teaching or transitional tool for user tasks
Logic Bomb
Operating System Advantages
row
Training software
35. Artificial intelligence techniques that make it possible for machine performance to improve based on feedback from past performance. (Used in games like chess/checkers; based on prior actions)
word processing
Hypertext
Bitmapped Graphics
Machine learning
36. A communications protocol that enables users to download files from remote servers to their computers - and to upload files they want to share from their computers to these archives.
Analog Signal
Server
Leading
FTP (file transfer protocol)
37. A computer model of a real life situation used to see how a model operates under certain conditions
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
point size
footer
Simulation
38. (autocorrect) word-processing feature that places footnotes where they belong on the page
automatic correction
Web crawlers
Mailing list
Domains
39. Device for sending information from the computer (e.g. monitor or printer)
Bar Code Reader
Shareware
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Output Devices
40. Local Area Network; Multiple personal computers connected on a network
'what if?' questions
LAN
template
Commercial Software
41. Rectangular block of selected cells
row
range
Shareware
Biometrics
42. Block of information that appears at the bottom of every page in a document - displaying repetitive information such as automatically calculated page number
template
footer
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
Byte
43. Software that can be distributed and modified freely by users; example: Linux
replication
Sensor
Telecommuting
Open-Source Software
44. Documentation file that appears onscreen at the user's request
LAN
Mailing list
Help file
Pull technology
45. Software or hardware that guards against unauthorized access to an internal network
macro
Rules of Thumb for DTP
proportionally spaced fonts
Firewall
46. Multimedia that enables the user to take an active part in the experience.
Responsibilities of System Admin
Defragmenting
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Interactive Multimedia
47. Network created in 1969 from a government grant during the Cold War that is the foundation of today's Internet. ('Advanced Research Project Agency NETwork')
Command-Line Interface
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
Arpanet
OCR
48. Text-editing feature of a word-processing program which automatically moves any words that won't fit on the current line to the next line - along with the cursor
word wrap
Presentation-Graphics Software
Pixel
cell
49. A desktop-published document that uses a wide range of color; contrast with spot color.
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
Morph
Full-Color
header
50. Horizontal
Wizard
Video Editing Software
row
Information