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IT Literacy

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. A handheld device that displays digital representations of the contents of books.






2. Software which must be purchased through commercial channels and is copyrighted; Cannot be legally duplicated for others






3. The look and feel of the computing experience from a human point of view






4. A standard interface that allows electronic instruments and computers to communicate with each other and work together.






5. Software that serves as tools for doing system maintenance and some repairs that are not automatically handled by the operating system;






6. 1) color depth; 2) resolution






7. 1) Plan before you publish! 2) Use appropriate fonts. 3) Don't go 'style-crazy.' 4) Look at the document through the reader's eyes. 5) Learn from the masters. 6) Know your limitations. 7) Remember your message/objective.






8. 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.






9. Software that facilitates the arrangement of information into hierarchies or levels of ideas






10. Enables you to 'paint' pixels on the screen with a pointing device.






11. 1) Save labor costs (work all the time - no breaks/vacations); 2) improve quality and increase production (esp. in repetitive tasks); 3) ideal for dangerous/impossible jobs for humans






12. ~Advantages 1)Safety: easy to simulate without actual risk 2)Economy: Build/simulate/destroy without waste 3)Projection 4)Visualization 5)Replication: Redo/rerun/alter easily ~Disadvantages 1)Reliability 2)Depends on original info 3)Complete trust fa






13. 1) makes long distance meetings possible and reduces costs; 2) enables decisions to evolve over time; 3) emphasizes messages over messenger






14. 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)






15. (autocorrect) word-processing feature that places footnotes where they belong on the page






16. Programs that use computer hosts to reproduce themselves. Worm programs travel independently over computer networks - seeking out uninfected workstations to occupy. A form of software sabotage






17. Loading the non-ROM part of the operating system into memory






18. Local Area Network; Multiple personal computers connected on a network






19. Numbers which are the raw material used to perform calculations






20. Using multiple processors to divide jobs into pieces and work simultaneously on the pieces (multitasking!)






21. 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)






22. Software for editing digital video - including titles - sound and special effects.






23. User interface that requires the user to type text commands on a command-line to communicate with the operating system






24. The ability of a software program to run on a specific computer system. Also the ability of a hardware device to function with a particular type of computer






25. The process of identifying objects and shapes in a photograph - drawing - video or other visual image. (Effortless for humans - difficult for computers)






26. To post software= or documents to an online source for availability to others






27. Horizontal






28. Gigabyte; Approximately 1000 MB






29. Component of word-processing software that analyzes each word in context - checking for content errors - common grammatical errors - and stylistic problems






30. 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






31. The density of pixels - measured by the number of dots per inch.






32. In a computer simulation - the user and the computer responding to data from each other






33. 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')






34. Alignment of text on a line: left justification (smooth left margin - ragged right margin) - right justification (smooth right - ragged left)






35. A way to test machine intelligence. (Tester and subject converse - and tester attempts to perceive whether it's a human or computer)






36. The storage of pictures as collections of lines - shapes and other objects.






37. Protocols developed as an experiment in internetworking - now the language of the Internet - allowing cross-network communication for almost every type of computer and network.






38. Software used as an introductory - teaching or transitional tool for user tasks






39. A software help agent that walks the user through a complex process






40. Unauthorized access and/or vandalism of computer systems; short for criminal hacking






41. Instructions that tell the hardware what to do to transform the input into out put






42. Megabyte; Approximately 1000K or 1 million bytes






43. A continuous wave






44. Software packages which include several applications designed to work well together; such as Microsoft Office






45. The identification of spoken words and sentences by a computer - making it possible for voice input to be converted into text files






46. A program designed to attack in response to a particular logical even or sequence of events. A type of software sabotage.






47. Terabyte; Approximately 1 million megabytes






48. Software that is free to try with a send-payment-to-keep honor system






49. The illegal duplication of copyrighted software






50. The online sharing of music or other computer files directly among individual computer users' hard drives - rather than through posting the files on central servers.