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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. Microsoft Powerpoint
word wrap
spell check
An example of presentation-graphics software
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
2. Unauthorized access and/or vandalism of computer systems; short for criminal hacking
Web crawlers
Push technology
footer
Cracking
3. User interface that requires the user to type text commands on a command-line to communicate with the operating system
template
'what if?' questions
Command-Line Interface
Byte
4. Device for sending information from the computer (e.g. monitor or printer)
Open-Source Software
Output Devices
Bug
footer
5. A database that contains both facts - and a system of rules for determining and changing the relationship among those facts.
GUI
Color Depth
Knowledge base
Mailing list
6. Reference to a cell in relation to the current cell; modifies when copied
WYSIWYG
Global positioning system
relative reference
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
7. Language that people speak/write everyday.
Natural language
Domain
Speech recognition
Worm
8. Television that processes information through a binary code rather than an analog signal.
Camera-Ready
Digital television
Data
Cracking
9. Computer controlled machines designed to perform specific manual tasks ('forced labor')
Output Devices
Master Pages
ROM
Robot
10. Documentation and help available through a software company's Web site
Arpanet
Camera-Ready
Online help
Hyperlink
11. User Name; A one-word name that you type to identify yourself when connecting
Factors that control image quality (2)
Newsgroups
Pull technology
Login Name
12. A program that performs useful tasks while at the same time carrying out a secret destructive act. A form of software sabotage/
Tutorial software
Trojan Horse
Multimedia
Server
13. Word-processing feature that divides long words situated at the ends of lines
Gigahertz
Interactive Multimedia
Browser
automatic hyphenation
14. 1) data stays consistent over distances; 2) more data can be transmitted; 3) can communicate with other devices
Hyperlink
Advantages of digital television (3)
row
Presentation-Graphics Software
15. A device that enables digital machines to monitor a physical quantity of the analog world (i.e. temperature - humidity - pressure) to provide data used in robotics. (Enables robots to modify actions based on feedback from outside world) (Ex: vision -
Sensor
Hacker
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
row
16. Text entry providing information of the contents of a row/column
Animation
label
Arpanet
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
17. A unique string of four numbers separated by periods that serves as a unique address for a computer on the Internet. The IP address of the host computer and the sending computer is included with every packet of information that traverses the Internet
TB
Pattern recognition
IP address
Bug
18. A popular networking architecture developed in 1976 at Xerox with general principles which apply to all common network connections
Ethernet
Output Devices
Image Processing Software
Inference engine
19. Software robots that systematically explore the Web - retrieve information about pages - and index the retrieved information in a database. (used by search engines)
Disadvantages of ebooks
Defragmenting
Web crawlers
System Administrator
20. Fonts which provide more room for wide as opposed to narrow characters
Morph
UPS
proportionally spaced fonts
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
21. 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.
Hyperlink
Intranet
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
Factors that control image quality (2)
22. Device for accepting input (e.g. a keyboard)
Advantages of Robots (3)
Convergence
Input Devices
Worm
23. Working from home by modem - as do many programmers - accountants - and other information workers.
Telecommuting
Digital television
Agent
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
24. Spreadsheet document which appears on the screen as a grid or numbered rows/columns
outliner
worksheet
Morph
footer
25. Software that only allows user access according to the user's needs. Some users can open only files that are related to their work. Some users are allowed read-only access to files; they can see but not change them.
Processor
GUI Advantages
KB
Access-Control Software
26. Copy files between storage devices; Repair damaged data files; Guard against viruses; Compress files to take up less disk space; example: defragmenting
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Shareware
Utility Program Features
27. Software packages which include several applications designed to work well together; such as Microsoft Office
Cookies
Backup
Knowledge base
Integrated Software
28. Wide Area Network ; A network that extends over a long distance. Each network site is a node on the network
Full-Color
WAN
GUI Advantages
Push technology
29. Email discussion groups on special-interest topics. All subscribers receive messages sent to the group's mailing address. (private)
Pixel
Mailing list
Byte
formula
30. The process of identifying objects and shapes in a photograph - drawing - video or other visual image. (Effortless for humans - difficult for computers)
Image analysis
Push technology
Digital television
Peripheral
31. Software that can be distributed and modified freely by users; example: Linux
OMR
Logic Bomb
label
Open-Source Software
32. Enables you to 'paint' pixels on the screen with a pointing device.
row
Painting Software
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
Virus
33. Numbers which are the raw material used to perform calculations
Bug
header
value
Virtual Reality (VR)
34. Anything that can be communicated
automatic hyphenation
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Information
35. A method of compression that can squeeze a music file to a fraction of its original CD sized with only slight loss of quality.
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
Master Pages
Hypermedia
WAN
36. (autocorrect) word-processing feature that places footnotes where they belong on the page
replication
Robot
automatic correction
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
37. 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
Software License
Search engine
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
relative reference
38. Measurements of individual body characteristics - such as voiceprint or fingerprint; sometimes used in computer security
spell check
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Biometrics
Drawing Software
39. An agreement allowing the use of a software program on a single machine
point size
Software License
monospaced fonts
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
40. Software that enables the user to manipulate photographs and other high-resolution images.
Presentation-Graphics Software
Rules of Thumb for DTP
Cracking
Image Processing Software
41. A class of Internet addresses indicated by a suffix such as: .com - .gov - .net
proportionally spaced fonts
Virtual Reality (VR)
Domains
Arpanet
42. The standard technique used to send information over the Internet. A message is broken into packets that travel independently from network to network toward their common destination - where they are reunited.
formatting
Online help
Robot
Packet-switching
43. (Modeling) The use of computers to create abstract models of objects - organisms - organizations and processes
Pattern recognition
Model
WWW (world wide web)
Domain
44. Function which enables users to change the appearance of a document by specifying the font - point size - and style of any character in the document - as well as the overall layout of text and graphical elements in the document
automatic hyphenation
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
function
formatting
45. Reference to a specific cell address; doesn't change when copied
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Rules of Netiquette (6)
Digital Signal
absolute reference
46. Software for editing digital video - including titles - sound and special effects.
Video teleconference
Robot
KB
Video Editing Software
47. The field of computer science devoted to making computers perceive - reason and act in ways that have - until now - been reserved for human beings.
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
Bluetooth
Turning Test
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
48. Automatic replication of values - labels and formulas
Image analysis
PDF (Portable Document Format)
replication
Biometrics
49. Information in a form that can be read - used and manipulated by a computer
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
Disadvantages of ebooks
Data
justification
50. 1) Amount of network traffic; 2) size/type of file being transferred; 3) type/quality of network connection
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
range
Natural language
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)