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IT Literacy
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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. 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
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
Packet-switching
Hacker
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
2. Device for accepting input (e.g. a keyboard)
Factors that control image quality (2)
Compatibility
Utility Program
Input Devices
3. 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.
Rules of Thumb for DTP
Defragmenting
Turning Test
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
4. Optical Character Recognition; Locating and identifying printed characters embedded in an image - allowing the text to be stored as an editable document. Can be performed by wand readers - pen scanners - and OCR software
Expert system
Feedback Loop
OCR
Push technology
5. Worksheets which contain labels and formulas but no data values; instant answers are produced when information is provided
Multimedia
Domains
Site License
template
6. Software that can be distributed and modified freely by users; example: Linux
Agent
thesaurus
Leading
Open-Source Software
7. A class of Internet addresses indicated by a suffix such as: .com - .gov - .net
word processing
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Disadvantages of telecommuting (3)
Domains
8. 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.
GUI Advantages
footer
Push technology
Natural language
9. Synonym finder
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
label
thesaurus
Model + / ?
10. A stream of bits
Image analysis
Packet-switching
Color Depth
Digital Signal
11. An online meeting between 2 or more people; done in 'real time' (ex: IM [instant messaging])
Teleconference
Morph
proportionally spaced fonts
footer
12. An individual responsible for maintaining a multi-user computer system
Server
Browser
System Administrator
Drawing Software
13. Video reduced to a series of numbers (0 and 1) - which can be edited - stored - and played back without loss of quality.
Image Processing Software
Integrated Software
cell
Digital Video
14. 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)
Hyperlink
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
Humans > Computers (8)
Rules of Netiquette (6)
15. The relatively easy use of a single color (or sometimes two) to add interest to a desktop-publishing product.
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
Rules of Thumb for DTP
Spot Color
Operating System Advantages
16. Software that facilitates the arrangement of information into hierarchies or levels of ideas
Software Piracy
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cracking
outliner
17. Documentation file that appears onscreen at the user's request
Virtual Reality (VR)
Help file
Color Depth
Template
18. Size and style of typeface
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
font
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
HTML (hypertext markup language)
19. An error in programming
Bug
Software Piracy
Page-Layout Software
Feedback Loop
20. In a computer simulation - the user and the computer responding to data from each other
Trojan Horse
Feedback Loop
Color Depth
Storage Devices
21. Binary digit; The smallest unit of information. A bit can have two values: 0 or 1
Rules of Netiquette (6)
Bit
outliner
font
22. To post software= or documents to an online source for availability to others
Upload
Access-Control Software
Compatibility
Advantages of DTP
23. 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.
Processor
Bit
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Model + / ?
24. (Modeling) The use of computers to create abstract models of objects - organisms - organizations and processes
Backdoor
Feedback Loop
Model
Telecommuting
25. 1) outline your ideas; 2) remember your audience; 3) use large fonts; 4) be 'stingy' with words (bullets - summarize); 5) use a consistent design; 6) be smart with art (use appropriate graphics)
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
GUI
Analog Signal
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
26. 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
replication
Video teleconference
Augmented Reality
Backdoor
27. Software that is free to try with a send-payment-to-keep honor system
An example of presentation-graphics software
Operating System Advantages
formatting
Shareware
28. 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.
Packet-switching
Camera-Ready
Feedback Loop
Agent
29. Measurements of individual body characteristics - such as voiceprint or fingerprint; sometimes used in computer security
Fuzzy logic
Site License
Biometrics
Master Pages
30. Face-to-face communication over long distances using video and computer technology.
worksheet
Fuzzy logic
thesaurus
Video teleconference
31. '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
Biometrics
WYSIWYG
formula
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
32. Uninterruptable Power Supply; A hardware device that protects computers from data loss during power failures
GB
automatic correction
UPS
Protocol
33. 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.
Commercial Software
GUI Advantages
Site License
Packet-switching
34. A computer model of a real life situation used to see how a model operates under certain conditions
Color Depth
Simulation
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Arpanet
35. 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.
template
'Read-me' file
Kerning
Virtual Reality (VR)
36. 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
Advantages of DTP
Tutorial software
Processor
Operating System
37. Identifying recurring patterns in input data with the goal of understand or categorizing that input. (Easy for humans) (Ex: fingerprint identification - handwriting recognition - speech recognition - optional character recognition)
automatic hyphenation
Operating System
Hacker
Pattern recognition
38. Protocols developed as an experiment in internetworking - now the language of the Internet - allowing cross-network communication for almost every type of computer and network.
Backdoor
Processor
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Integrated Software
39. A set of rules for the exchange of data between a terminal and a computer - or between two computers.
Image Processing Software
Telecommuting
Protocol
Rules of Thumb for DTP
40. All type - including roman - bold - and italics - of a single design (i.e. Helvetica)
Robot
Hypertext
typeface
proportionally spaced fonts
41. Megabyte; Approximately 1000K or 1 million bytes
relative reference
TB
Ethernet
MB
42. To copy software from an online source to a local computer
Download
formula
Bit
typeface
43. The field of computer science devoted to making computers perceive - reason and act in ways that have - until now - been reserved for human beings.
Information
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
Digital Video
44. Automatic replication of values - labels and formulas
replication
LAN
Teleconference
row
45. The density of pixels - measured by the number of dots per inch.
Pattern recognition
outliner
Resolution
automatic hyphenation
46. 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
formula
Encryption
Image analysis
An example of presentation-graphics software
47. The address of a Web site. (unique)
Vector Graphics
URL (uniform resource locator)
Ergonomics
Worm
48. 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')
row
relative reference
Arpanet
Cookies
49. Artificial intelligence techniques that make it possible for machine performance to improve based on feedback from past performance. (Used in games like chess/checkers; based on prior actions)
ASCII
Machine learning
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
Download
50. The science of designing work environments that enable people and things to interact efficiently and safely
Push technology
point size
Page-Layout Software
Ergonomics