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IT Literacy
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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. To post software= or documents to an online source for availability to others
Bit
Upload
Disadvantages of ebooks
Image analysis
2. The use of computers to draw products or process designs on the screen.
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Integrated Software
Drawing Software
Web crawlers
3. Graphics in which images are stored and manipulated as organized collections of pixels rather than as shapes and lines. Contrast with object-oriented graphics.
Password
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
Camera-Ready
Bitmapped Graphics
4. Binary digit; The smallest unit of information. A bit can have two values: 0 or 1
Bit
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
Data
Video teleconference
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
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
Vector Graphics
Animation
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
6. Created: 1) URL; 2) HTML; 3) HTTP://; 4) first 'browser'
System Administrator
Open-Source Software
FTP (file transfer protocol)
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
7. Local Area Network; Multiple personal computers connected on a network
LAN
Factors that control image quality (2)
Analog Signal
Digital Signal
8. Most common security tools used to restrict access to computer systems.
Virus
Password
User Interface
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
9. A computer especially designed to provide software and other resources to other computers over a network
row
spell check
Inference engine
Server
10. Using multiple processors to divide jobs into pieces and work simultaneously on the pieces (multitasking!)
Login Name
Camera-Ready
Speech recognition
Parallel processing
11. To copy software from an online source to a local computer
Online help
Template
Arpanet
Download
12. 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
Common-sense knowledge
automatic hyphenation
Hyperlink
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
13. 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.
HTML (hypertext markup language)
font
value
Upload
14. The science of designing work environments that enable people and things to interact efficiently and safely
Site License
Advantages of Robots (3)
formatting
Ergonomics
15. Documentation and help available through a software company's Web site
Memory
Online help
Backup
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
16. The look and feel of the computing experience from a human point of view
Hyperlink
User Interface
Pixel
Browser
17. Block that appears at the top of every page in a document displaying repetitive information such as chapter title
WWW (world wide web)
Biometrics
automatic hyphenation
header
18. The quantity of information that can be transmitted through a communication medium in a given amount of time. (more bandwidth = faster transmission)
Output Devices
Bandwidth
Help file
FTP (file transfer protocol)
19. The storage of pictures as collections of lines - shapes and other objects.
Vector Graphics
Multimedia
Online help
Master Pages
20. Terabyte; Approximately 1 million megabytes
Firewall
TB
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
21. A program that eliminates fragmented files by changing the assignment of clusters to files; Easier to find files/programs -> Faster computer
Defragmenting
Factors that control image quality (2)
Multimedia
PDF (Portable Document Format)
22. 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
IP address
MB
absolute reference
Packet-switching
23. A program that performs useful tasks while at the same time carrying out a secret destructive act. A form of software sabotage/
Kerning
Output Devices
RAM
Trojan Horse
24. A set of rules for the exchange of data between a terminal and a computer - or between two computers.
Protocol
'what if?' questions
Presentation-Graphics Software
Factors of a good pw...
25. Feature in spreadsheet software that allows speculation by providing instant answers to hypothetical questions
Warning
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26. 1) creative; 2) parallel processing (multitasking); 3) image analysis; 4) common sense knowledge; 5) see relationships between concepts; 6) knowledge base is vast - not narrow; 7) translation of languages (idioms); 8) expression/interpretation of emo
Humans > Computers (8)
proportionally spaced fonts
Browser
Bluetooth
27. 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')
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
Analog Signal
Arpanet
Digital television
28. Software packages which include several applications designed to work well together; such as Microsoft Office
Integrated Software
Model + / ?
formula
range
29. 1) Amount of network traffic; 2) size/type of file being transferred; 3) type/quality of network connection
Tutorial software
Image analysis
Operating System
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
30. Free software that is not copyrighted - offered through World Wide Websites - electronic bulletin boards - user groups - and other sources
Camera-Ready
Public Domain Software
Domains
Natural language
31. 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
Integrated Software
Open-Source Software
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
32. 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.
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Public Domain Software
Wizard
Worm
33. The Internet protocol used to transfer Web pages.
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
Augmented Reality
Digital Video
absolute reference
34. 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.
Advantages of DTP
Booting
Firewall
Virtual Reality (VR)
35. Professionally designed - empty documents that can be adapted to specific user needs. In spreadsheet software - worksheets that contain labels and formulas but no data values. The template produces instant answers when you fill in the blanks.
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
Resolution
Template
Color Depth
36. 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.
font
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Virtual Reality (VR)
FTP (file transfer protocol)
37. The process of simulation motion with a series of still pictures.
Common-sense knowledge
Command-Line Interface
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Animation
38. Bit depth; the number of bits devoted to each pixel.
typeface
Logic Bomb
Color Depth
formatting
39. Spreadsheet software function enabling users to change the appearance of cell contents
TB
GUI
cell format
Bar Code Reader
40. Anything that can be communicated
Vector Graphics
Defragmenting
Information
Hacker
41. Loading the non-ROM part of the operating system into memory
Image analysis
Booting
WYSIWYG
automatic hyphenation
42. Unauthorized access and/or vandalism of computer systems; short for criminal hacking
Booting
macro
range
Cracking
43. 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
Source Document
Mailing list
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
worksheet
44. Knowledge acquired from living in the world.
formula
Bitmapped Graphics
Multimedia
Common-sense knowledge
45. Built-in component of a word processor or a separate program that compares words in a documents with words in a disk-based dictionary - and flags words not found in the dictionary; may operate in batch mode - checking all the words at once - or inter
Model
function
Resolution
spell check
46. 1) makes long distance meetings possible and reduces costs; 2) enables decisions to evolve over time; 3) emphasizes messages over messenger
Software License
Unicode
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
TB
47. Device for accepting input (e.g. a keyboard)
Advantages of DTP
Wizard
Input Devices
Backup
48. 1) Say what is meant and with care (when using the Internet/email - there is no tone of voice); 2) keep it short (otherwise people may not read it all and miss stuff); 3) don't assume you're anonymous; 4) learn the non-verbal language of the net; 5)
Bug
proportionally spaced fonts
point size
Rules of Netiquette (6)
49. 'what you see is what you get' (wizzy-wig); arrangement of words on the screen representing a close approximation to the arrangement of words on the printed page
Server
WYSIWYG
Camera-Ready
Packet-switching
50. The field of computer science devoted to making computers perceive - reason and act in ways that have - until now - been reserved for human beings.
Feedback Loop
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
proportionally spaced fonts