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IT Literacy
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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. Provides direct instruction in a clearly specified skill of subject
Image analysis
Tutorial software
Input Devices
ISP (Internet service provider)
2. Wide Area Network ; A network that extends over a long distance. Each network site is a node on the network
WAN
Painting Software
Ethernet
ebook (Electronic Book)
3. A desktop-published document that uses a wide range of color; contrast with spot color.
Worm
Password
Humans < Computers (3)
Full-Color
4. Terabyte; Approximately 1 million megabytes
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
Browser
Painting Software
TB
5. Stores a picture as a collection of lines and shapes. Also stores shapes as shape formulas and text as text.
Drawing Software
outliner
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Analog Signal
6. 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
Natural language
Output Devices
Online help
7. Binary digit; The smallest unit of information. A bit can have two values: 0 or 1
Bit
Protocol
ROM
Packet-switching
8. The narrow (but deep) knowledge base of an expert system.
Software
UPS
Data
Domain
9. Part of the computer which processes information - performs arithmetic calculations - and makes basic decisions based on information values
Processor
Speech recognition
WYSIWYG
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
10. An undocumented way of gaining access to a program - online service - or entire computer system - written by a programmer who created the code; Can be a security hazard because it is vulnerable to hackers
Backdoor
Responsibilities of System Admin
Virtual Reality (VR)
column
11. An external device (i.e. keyboard - monitor) connected via cable to the system central processing unit (CPU)
Server
Peripheral
Password
Hypertext
12. 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
IP address
Ethernet
formatting
An example of presentation-graphics software
13. Knowledge acquired from living in the world.
Common-sense knowledge
Advantages of Robots (3)
Analog Signal
Utility Program
14. Synonym finder
thesaurus
Trojan Horse
RAM
WYSIWYG
15. (autocorrect) word-processing feature that places footnotes where they belong on the page
automatic correction
IP address
Knowledge engineer
Rules of Netiquette (6)
16. Bit depth; the number of bits devoted to each pixel.
Sensor
Software
Color Depth
Command-Line Interface
17. The spacing between letter pairs in a document.
proportionally spaced fonts
Kerning
Trojan Horse
Netiquette
18. A special type of communications software designed to access and display information at Internet Web sites.
Pattern recognition
Browser
Storage Devices
Gigahertz
19. A business that provides its customers with connections to the Internet (along with other services).
ISP (Internet service provider)
Byte
Integrated Software
Tutorial software
20. A self-contained intra-organizational network that is designed using the same technology as the Internet. (within organization)
Resolution
Intranet
Search engine
LAN
21. Instructions that tell the hardware what to do to transform the input into out put
Software
IP address
monospaced fonts
Bandwidth
22. A reading tool that uses light to read universal product codes - inventory codes - and other codes created out of patterns of variable-width bars
Machine learning
Bar Code Reader
Turning Test
ISP (Internet service provider)
23. Gigabyte; Approximately 1000 MB
Expert system
GB
Software
Domains
24. Software robots that systematically explore the Web - retrieve information about pages - and index the retrieved information in a database. (used by search engines)
Template
Web crawlers
Processor
Feedback Loop
25. Communicates with peripherals; Coordinates the concurrent processing of tasks; Manages memory; Keeps track of location of all programs/files of hard drive
Operating System Advantages
Digital television
Utility Program
Hypertext
26. 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
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Disadvantages of ebooks
proportionally spaced fonts
27. Television that processes information through a binary code rather than an analog signal.
Interactive Multimedia
Digital television
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
Information
28. Email discussion groups on special-interest topics. All subscribers receive messages sent to the group's mailing address. (private)
Mailing list
Software License
IP address
Pull technology
29. Rectangular block of selected cells
Leading
Shareware
Analog Signal
range
30. A computer model of a real life situation used to see how a model operates under certain conditions
Simulation
Backup
PDF (Portable Document Format)
User Interface
31. Software used as an introductory - teaching or transitional tool for user tasks
Virtual Reality (VR)
automatic correction
cell
Training software
32. Worksheets which contain labels and formulas but no data values; instant answers are produced when information is provided
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
template
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
Expert system
33. Software programs that can ask questions - respond to commands - pay attention to users' work patters - serve as a guide and a coach - take on owner's goals - and use reasoning to fabricate their own goals.
macro
ASCII
Agent
Biometrics
34. A word - phrase - or picture that acts as a button - enabling the user to explore the Web or a multimedia document with mouse clicks.
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Bit
Rules of Thumb for DTP
Hyperlink
35. 1) vulnerable to network glitches and machine failures; 2) vulnerable to security breech; 3) filters out human component of communication (ex: eye contact; voice)
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
Video Editing Software
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
Model + / ?
36. A computer especially designed to provide software and other resources to other computers over a network
Cookies
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Server
Output Devices
37. 1) Paper is easier on eyes. 2) Books can be read anywhere w/o the need of electricity/batteries. 3) Books are aesthetically more pleasing. 4) Books can be highlighted and written in.
Disadvantages of ebooks
Rules of Netiquette (6)
automatic correction
Telecommuting
38. The identification of spoken words and sentences by a computer - making it possible for voice input to be converted into text files
Speech recognition
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
macro
Hypermedia
39. 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')
Protocol
Virtual Reality (VR)
typeface
Arpanet
40. 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.
GB
Page-Layout Software
Virtual Reality (VR)
replication
41. 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 -
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Sensor
Networks: + / ?
Pattern recognition
42. The Internet protocol used to transfer Web pages.
replication
Bitmapped Graphics
Arpanet
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
43. 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.
MB
Bug
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Natural language
44. A communications protocol that enables users to download files from remote servers to their computers - and to upload files they want to share from their computers to these archives.
Fuzzy logic
FTP (file transfer protocol)
Digital television
Site License
45. Technology in which browsers on client computers pull information from server machines; the browser needs to initiate a request before any information is delivered.
Pattern recognition
Pull technology
Shareware
Model + / ?
46. Information in a form that can be read - used and manipulated by a computer
Data
Camera-Ready
IP address
Common-sense knowledge
47. Using a computer to create - edit and print documents
Bluetooth
Logic Bomb
word processing
cell format
48. A set of rules for the exchange of data between a terminal and a computer - or between two computers.
Netiquette
formatting
Expert system
Protocol
49. ~Adding/configuring new work stations ~Setting up user accounts ~Installing system wide software ~Performing preventative procedures for viruses ~Allocating storage space
UPS
Site License
Responsibilities of System Admin
HTML (hypertext markup language)
50. Unauthorized access and/or vandalism of computer systems; short for criminal hacking
Cracking
ROM
Image analysis
Morph