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IT Literacy
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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. Measurements of individual body characteristics - such as voiceprint or fingerprint; sometimes used in computer security
Compatibility
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Biometrics
Disadvantages of ebooks
2. Enables you to 'paint' pixels on the screen with a pointing device.
Bandwidth
Newsgroups
User Interface
Painting Software
3. Documentation file that appears onscreen at the user's request
Natural language
Help file
Resolution
Domain
4. A self-contained intra-organizational network that is designed using the same technology as the Internet. (within organization)
Interactive Multimedia
Operating System
Intranet
RAM
5. 1) ability to create models with physical characteristics (weight and volume); 2) model can be rotated; 3) can evaluate structural performance by applying an imaginary force; 4) designs can be easily altered and edited
An example of presentation-graphics software
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
Responsibilities of System Admin
Advantages of digital television (3)
6. Part of the Internet - a collection of multimedia documents created by organizations and users worldwide. Documents are linked in a hypertext Web site that allows users to explore them with simpler mouse clicks.
WWW (world wide web)
Convergence
Virus
User Interface
7. Technology in which information is delivered automatically to a client computer. The user subscribes to a service - and the server delivers that information periodically and unobtrusively. Contrast with pull technology.
Wizard
Push technology
Template
automatic correction
8. The storage of pictures as collections of lines - shapes and other objects.
User Interface
Domain
Vector Graphics
Hyperlink
9. Step-by-step procedure for calculating a number
Inference engine
formula
Vector Graphics
automatic correction
10. Provides direct instruction in a clearly specified skill of subject
Processor
Tutorial software
Software License
Advantages of Robots (3)
11. A text file that includes codes that describe the format - layout - and logical structure of a hypermedia document. Most Web pages are created with this code.
Responsibilities of System Admin
HTML (hypertext markup language)
Digital television
cell format
12. A type of wireless device that enables mobile phones - hand-held computers - and PCs to communicate with each other regardless of operating system.
Model + / ?
An example of presentation-graphics software
Bluetooth
Robot
13. 1) data stays consistent over distances; 2) more data can be transmitted; 3) can communicate with other devices
Bitmapped Graphics
Advantages of digital television (3)
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
Virtual Reality (VR)
14. Software used mainly to produce print publications. Also - the process of using desktop-publishing software to produce publications (e.g. brochures - newsletters - forms - menus - event fliers - notices)
Arpanet
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
font
Natural language
15. Copy files between storage devices; Repair damaged data files; Guard against viruses; Compress files to take up less disk space; example: defragmenting
Fuzzy logic
Utility Program Features
Mailing list
Pattern recognition
16. Kilobyte; About 1000 bytes of information
KB
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Morph
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
17. Billions of clock cycles per second - a measurement of a computer's clock speed
Command-Line Interface
OMR
Gigahertz
Digital Signal
18. Process of saving data - esp. for data recovery. Many systems automatically back up data and software onto disks or tapes
automatic correction
Rules of Netiquette (6)
cell
Backup
19. Megabyte; Approximately 1000K or 1 million bytes
serif fonts
Newsgroups
Factors of a good pw...
MB
20. Unauthorized access and/or vandalism of computer systems; short for criminal hacking
Gigahertz
Cracking
Wizard
IP address
21. An error in programming
Compatibility
Unicode
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Bug
22. Technology that creates the illusion that the user is immersed in a world that exists only inside the computer; this environment contains both scenes and the controls to change those scenes.
Virtual Reality (VR)
Password
macro
Convergence
23. A word - phrase - or picture that acts as a button - enabling the user to explore the Web or a multimedia document with mouse clicks.
Digital Video
Hyperlink
Software Piracy
Byte
24. Software which must be purchased through commercial channels and is copyrighted; Cannot be legally duplicated for others
Access-Control Software
Commercial Software
automatic correction
MB
25. 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
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
Advantages of Robots (3)
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
'Read-me' file
26. A handheld device that displays digital representations of the contents of books.
replication
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Search engine
ebook (Electronic Book)
27. Part of the computer which processes information - performs arithmetic calculations - and makes basic decisions based on information values
Processor
Backup
Natural language
template
28. Automates the creation of visual aids for lectures - training sessions and other presentations. Can include everything from spreadsheet charting programs to animation-editing software - but most commonly used for creating and displaying a series of o
WAN
Drawing Software
Presentation-Graphics Software
Humans > Computers (8)
29. 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)
monospaced fonts
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
Master Pages
Byte
30. Terabyte; Approximately 1 million megabytes
Storage Devices
Open-Source Software
Ergonomics
TB
31. Technology in which browsers on client computers pull information from server machines; the browser needs to initiate a request before any information is delivered.
Encryption
LAN
Pull technology
Hyperlink
32. 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')
Augmented Reality
Resolution
Machine learning
Arpanet
33. To post software= or documents to an online source for availability to others
Protocol
Upload
Access-Control Software
GB
34. 1) Provide expertise when experts are unavailable; 2) preserve knowledge of experts after they leave an organization; 3) combine knowledge of several experts; 4) take care of routine task so workers can do more challenging jobs
macro
Painting Software
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
worksheet
35. Stores programs and the data they need to be instantly accessible to the CPU
absolute reference
Memory
Image Processing Software
Global positioning system
36. 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
word wrap
header
IP address
Pull technology
37. A continuous wave
Resolution
Analog Signal
serif fonts
Expert system
38. 1) flexible schedule; 2) save time commuting and save $; 3) better for the environment (less gas consumption); 4) better ergonomics (working conditions); 5) save office space/expenses.
WYSIWYG
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
RAM
Open-Source Software
39. Software robots that systematically explore the Web - retrieve information about pages - and index the retrieved information in a database. (used by search engines)
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Domains
Presentation-Graphics Software
Web crawlers
40. Software that spreads from program to program or from disk to disk - and uses each infected program or disk to copy itself. A form of software sabotage.
Pattern recognition
Turning Test
Virus
Pull technology
41. 1) vulnerable to network glitches and machine failures; 2) vulnerable to security breech; 3) filters out human component of communication (ex: eye contact; voice)
word wrap
Kerning
grammar and style checker
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
42. Predefined set of calculations (i.e. SUM and AVERAGE)
formula
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
Firewall
function
43. The science of designing work environments that enable people and things to interact efficiently and safely
Defragmenting
Ergonomics
justification
Input Devices
44. The identification of spoken words and sentences by a computer - making it possible for voice input to be converted into text files
FTP (file transfer protocol)
Gigahertz
Speech recognition
Utility Program Features
45. 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.
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Processor
Interactive Multimedia
46. A way to test machine intelligence. (Tester and subject converse - and tester attempts to perceive whether it's a human or computer)
Turning Test
Bar Code Reader
Download
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
47. Software packages which include several applications designed to work well together; such as Microsoft Office
Processor
Integrated Software
Multimedia
GUI
48. (Modeling) The use of computers to create abstract models of objects - organisms - organizations and processes
Integrated Software
Model
Browser
ASCII
49. Text entry providing information of the contents of a row/column
Server
Resolution
label
Digital Signal
50. Typeface fonts in which the characters are embellished with fine lines (serifs) at the ends of the main strokes
Public Domain Software
Download
serif fonts
KB