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IT Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Language that people speak/write everyday.
Natural language
Arpanet
Push technology
Disadvantages of telecommuting (3)
2. 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
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Disadvantages of telecommuting (3)
Turning Test
Intranet
3. Measure of character size (one point equals 1/72 inch)
Tutorial software
Backup
point size
Byte
4. (autocorrect) word-processing feature that places footnotes where they belong on the page
Machine learning
TB
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
automatic correction
5. 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.
macro
Online help
Packet-switching
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
6. User interface that requires the user to type text commands on a command-line to communicate with the operating system
font
Agent
WYSIWYG
Command-Line Interface
7. ~Adding/configuring new work stations ~Setting up user accounts ~Installing system wide software ~Performing preventative procedures for viruses ~Allocating storage space
Bug
Bandwidth
Software
Responsibilities of System Admin
8. 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.
Search engine
Virtual Reality (VR)
Biometrics
relative reference
9. The combination of text - numbers - graphics - animation - sound effects - music and other media in a hyperlinked document.
Hypermedia
LAN
grammar and style checker
ROM
10. Spreadsheet software function enabling users to change the appearance of cell contents
cell format
Utility Program Features
Analog Signal
Vector Graphics
11. The process of identifying objects and shapes in a photograph - drawing - video or other visual image. (Effortless for humans - difficult for computers)
Web crawlers
thesaurus
Model + / ?
Image analysis
12. 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.
Video teleconference
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Bar Code Reader
13. 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
Advantages of DTP
Encryption
Multimedia
14. An online meeting between 2 or more people; done in 'real time' (ex: IM [instant messaging])
Teleconference
font
Source Document
Domain
15. The relatively easy use of a single color (or sometimes two) to add interest to a desktop-publishing product.
Spot Color
template
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Factors of a good pw...
16. Face-to-face communication over long distances using video and computer technology.
Memory
Packet-switching
Video teleconference
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
17. A computer model of a real life situation used to see how a model operates under certain conditions
Digital Video
ebook (Electronic Book)
Simulation
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
18. License for multiple copies or removing restrictions on software copying and use at a network site
word wrap
Site License
cell format
Hypertext
19. A specialist who interviews and observes experts - and converts their words and actions into a knowledge base.
Knowledge engineer
Wizard
'what if?' questions
Netiquette
20. Typeface fonts in which the characters are embellished with fine lines (serifs) at the ends of the main strokes
worksheet
serif fonts
Morph
Presentation-Graphics Software
21. 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
LAN
Interactive Multimedia
IP address
Template
22. 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.
Protocol
automatic hyphenation
function
Template
23. A system of programs that performs a variety of technical operations - providing an additional layer of insulation between the user and the bits-and-bytes world of computer hardware
Common-sense knowledge
GB
Operating System
URL (uniform resource locator)
24. 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
Pattern recognition
Camera-Ready
ROM
Utility Program
25. Long-term repository for data (e.g. disks - tapes)
Animation
Storage Devices
Download
Booting
26. Billions of clock cycles per second - a measurement of a computer's clock speed
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Gigahertz
Packet-switching
WAN
27. Random Access Memory; Memory that stores program instructions and data temporarily
RAM
GB
OCR
Global positioning system
28. The address of a Web site. (unique)
Video teleconference
URL (uniform resource locator)
Utility Program Features
Software License
29. Protects transmitted information by scrambling the transmissions; When a user encrypts a message by applying a secret numerical code (encryption key) - the message can be read only after it's been reconstructed with a matching key
column
Encryption
macro
Hyperlink
30. Working from home by modem - as do many programmers - accountants - and other information workers.
word wrap
Telecommuting
An example of presentation-graphics software
Advantages of Robots (3)
31. Device for sending information from the computer (e.g. monitor or printer)
Output Devices
column
Telecommuting
Rules of Thumb for DTP
32. 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 -
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Turning Test
Sensor
monospaced fonts
33. Software that can be distributed and modified freely by users; example: Linux
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Storage Devices
Online help
Open-Source Software
34. 1) Mathematical calculations faster w/ more accuracy; 2) storing vast amounts of data; 3) recall information
Booting
Password
Peripheral
Humans < Computers (3)
35. A stream of bits
Teleconference
Networks: + / ?
Digital Signal
Advantages of DTP
36. Software that enables the user to manipulate photographs and other high-resolution images.
Processor
Image Processing Software
word wrap
Responsibilities of System Admin
37. Graphics in which images are stored and manipulated as organized collections of pixels rather than as shapes and lines. Contrast with object-oriented graphics.
Bitmapped Graphics
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
Resolution
PDF (Portable Document Format)
38. 1) vulnerable to network glitches and machine failures; 2) vulnerable to security breech; 3) filters out human component of communication (ex: eye contact; voice)
Bug
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
justification
grammar and style checker
39. Automatic replication of values - labels and formulas
Push technology
replication
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
'Read-me' file
40. Text entry providing information of the contents of a row/column
Video Editing Software
KB
Analog Signal
label
41. A self-contained intra-organizational network that is designed using the same technology as the Internet. (within organization)
Intranet
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Master Pages
Telecommuting
42. Gigabyte; Approximately 1000 MB
ASCII
Inference engine
GB
Digital Signal
43. Software packages which include several applications designed to work well together; such as Microsoft Office
Packet-switching
Video Editing Software
Integrated Software
Encryption
44. 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')
Arpanet
automatic correction
Knowledge base
Digital Signal
45. Video clip in which one image metamorphoses into another.
cell format
point size
Browser
Morph
46. Local Area Network; Multiple personal computers connected on a network
LAN
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
An example of presentation-graphics software
Tutorial software
47. '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
WYSIWYG
thesaurus
Hyperlink
RAM
48. The process of simulation motion with a series of still pictures.
Animation
Hypermedia
Factors of a good pw...
serif fonts
49. Binary digit; The smallest unit of information. A bit can have two values: 0 or 1
Bit
MB
Backup
Operating System
50. Numbers which are the raw material used to perform calculations
Software
OMR
Video Editing Software
value
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