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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. 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
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Backdoor
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
2. Graphical User Interface; A user interface based on graphical displays. With a mouse - the user points to icons that represent files - folders - and disks. Documents are displayed in windows. The user selects commands from menus
GUI
Backdoor
formula
word wrap
3. 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.
Packet-switching
Public Domain Software
Page-Layout Software
URL (uniform resource locator)
4. Working from home by modem - as do many programmers - accountants - and other information workers.
Telecommuting
Hypertext
Software Piracy
Login Name
5. Copy files between storage devices; Repair damaged data files; Guard against viruses; Compress files to take up less disk space; example: defragmenting
justification
Password
Teleconference
Utility Program Features
6. Word-processing feature that divides long words situated at the ends of lines
Digital Video
Factors of a good pw...
automatic hyphenation
Backdoor
7. Software that derives logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true. ('If... then...' logic)
Utility Program Features
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
Inference engine
Video Editing Software
8. Intersection of row and column
Spot Color
WYSIWYG
Augmented Reality
cell
9. A desktop-published document that uses a wide range of color; contrast with spot color.
Full-Color
Tutorial software
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
10. Software that only allows user access according to the user's needs. Some users can open only files that are related to their work. Some users are allowed read-only access to files; they can see but not change them.
Public Domain Software
Access-Control Software
Speech recognition
WYSIWYG
11. Documentation and help available through a software company's Web site
proportionally spaced fonts
Online help
Software Piracy
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
12. 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
Backdoor
GUI
Presentation-Graphics Software
Netiquette
13. Software that serves as tools for doing system maintenance and some repairs that are not automatically handled by the operating system;
Login Name
Utility Program
Template
An example of presentation-graphics software
14. 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.
Bitmapped Graphics
Domains
automatic correction
Agent
15. Synonym finder
Full-Color
Image analysis
Bandwidth
thesaurus
16. Block of information that appears at the bottom of every page in a document - displaying repetitive information such as automatically calculated page number
Processor
footer
Memory
Image Processing Software
17. All type - including roman - bold - and italics - of a single design (i.e. Helvetica)
serif fonts
typeface
footer
Packet-switching
18. Grouping of 8 bits
Robot
Inference engine
Byte
Bit
19. A popular networking architecture developed in 1976 at Xerox with general principles which apply to all common network connections
Analog Signal
Ethernet
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Wizard
20. The address of a Web site. (unique)
Shareware
absolute reference
spell check
URL (uniform resource locator)
21. To copy software from an online source to a local computer
Download
Online help
word wrap
WAN
22. Communicates with peripherals; Coordinates the concurrent processing of tasks; Manages memory; Keeps track of location of all programs/files of hard drive
Source Document
Digital television
Site License
Operating System Advantages
23. Predefined set of calculations (i.e. SUM and AVERAGE)
Morph
Resolution
function
HTML (hypertext markup language)
24. Free software that is not copyrighted - offered through World Wide Websites - electronic bulletin boards - user groups - and other sources
Hypermedia
Bug
Netiquette
Public Domain Software
25. A pocket-sized computer used to organize appointments - tasks - notes - contacts - and other personal information; sometimes called hand-held computer or palmtop computer. Many PDAs include additional software and hardware for wireless communication.
macro
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
User Interface
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
26. Using multiple processors to divide jobs into pieces and work simultaneously on the pieces (multitasking!)
WWW (world wide web)
Advantages of digital television (3)
relative reference
Parallel processing
27. Video reduced to a series of numbers (0 and 1) - which can be edited - stored - and played back without loss of quality.
Resolution
Factors of a good pw...
function
Digital Video
28. The look and feel of the computing experience from a human point of view
Encryption
point size
Backdoor
User Interface
29. The ability of a software program to run on a specific computer system. Also the ability of a hardware device to function with a particular type of computer
absolute reference
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Compatibility
WYSIWYG
30. 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)
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
Bluetooth
Machine learning
PDF (Portable Document Format)
31. 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.
Push technology
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
ROM
Telecommuting
32. Software that facilitates the arrangement of information into hierarchies or levels of ideas
Pull technology
Information
ISP (Internet service provider)
outliner
33. Bit depth; the number of bits devoted to each pixel.
footer
Color Depth
Site License
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
34. 1) documents can be disorienting and leave the reader wondering; 2) documents don't always have the links readers want - leaving them frustrated because they can't easily get from here to there; 3) documents may contain 'lost' links - especially on t
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
monospaced fonts
worksheet
Virus
35. Intuitive: 1)throw away 2)trash bin; open file ~ folders 3)Consistent: integrated software 4)Forgiving: undo - cancel 5)Protective: double-click on closing 6)Flexible: copy/paste - shortcuts 7)Speech Recognition Software
URL (uniform resource locator)
Resolution
GUI Advantages
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
36. 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
Resolution
spell check
ROM
formatting
37. A defense department system with 24 satellites that can pinpoint any location on the Earth.
spell check
ISP (Internet service provider)
Hyperlink
Global positioning system
38. The illegal duplication of copyrighted software
Online help
Software Piracy
replication
thesaurus
39. Using a computer to create - edit and print documents
justification
Disadvantages of ebooks
Digital Signal
word processing
40. The density of pixels - measured by the number of dots per inch.
Bug
Feedback Loop
Resolution
Operating System
41. A way to test machine intelligence. (Tester and subject converse - and tester attempts to perceive whether it's a human or computer)
GB
Pattern recognition
Turning Test
Master Pages
42. Rules of etiquette that apply to Internet communication.
Netiquette
Agent
Spot Color
formatting
43. The process of identifying objects and shapes in a photograph - drawing - video or other visual image. (Effortless for humans - difficult for computers)
Peripheral
Newsgroups
Image analysis
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
44. A special type of communications software designed to access and display information at Internet Web sites.
Browser
Compatibility
Bluetooth
Domain
45. Graphics in which images are stored and manipulated as organized collections of pixels rather than as shapes and lines. Contrast with object-oriented graphics.
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Bitmapped Graphics
font
46. Ongoing public discussions on a particular subject consisting of notes written to a central Internet site and redistributed through a worldwide newsgroup called Usenet. You can check into and out of them whenever you want; all messages are posted on
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
Pattern recognition
KB
Newsgroups
47. A standard interface that allows electronic instruments and computers to communicate with each other and work together.
Compatibility
Multimedia
OCR
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
48. A type of logic that allows conclusions to be stated as probabilities rather than certainties. (Used by inference engines and knowledge bases)
GUI Advantages
Fuzzy logic
ebook (Electronic Book)
Packet-switching
49. Knowledge acquired from living in the world.
Protocol
Gigahertz
Common-sense knowledge
Packet-switching
50. The narrow (but deep) knowledge base of an expert system.
Online help
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
Digital Signal
Domain