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IT Literacy
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Subjects
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it-skills
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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. Intersection of row and column
Access-Control Software
Bar Code Reader
cell
Backdoor
2. Spreadsheet software function enabling users to change the appearance of cell contents
Operating System
Software Piracy
cell format
absolute reference
3. A standard interface that allows electronic instruments and computers to communicate with each other and work together.
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Netiquette
Animation
4. In a computer simulation - the user and the computer responding to data from each other
Feedback Loop
Video Editing Software
Peripheral
Fuzzy logic
5. Information in a form that can be read - used and manipulated by a computer
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
GUI Advantages
Data
grammar and style checker
6. A computer model of a real life situation used to see how a model operates under certain conditions
Integrated Software
Arpanet
Hypermedia
Simulation
7. Horizontal
Inference engine
row
automatic correction
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
8. A set of rules for the exchange of data between a terminal and a computer - or between two computers.
Hacker
Protocol
Bitmapped Graphics
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
9. 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
Logic Bomb
Cracking
spell check
Rules of Netiquette (6)
10. A database that contains both facts - and a system of rules for determining and changing the relationship among those facts.
Factors of a good pw...
Bit
Knowledge base
Arpanet
11. Television that processes information through a binary code rather than an analog signal.
Cracking
Arpanet
Digital television
Hyperlink
12. Size and style of typeface
formatting
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Simulation
font
13. Anything that can be communicated
ROM
Expert system
Help file
Information
14. User Name; A one-word name that you type to identify yourself when connecting
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
Byte
Login Name
15. The process of simulation motion with a series of still pictures.
Animation
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
Image Processing Software
Memory
16. 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
Encryption
Processor
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
relative reference
17. Part of the computer which processes information - performs arithmetic calculations - and makes basic decisions based on information values
Advantages of Robots (3)
typeface
Processor
Global positioning system
18. Optical Mark Reader; A reading device that uses reflected light to determine the location of pencil marks on standardized test answer sheets and similar forms
Data
Sensor
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
OMR
19. Communicates with peripherals; Coordinates the concurrent processing of tasks; Manages memory; Keeps track of location of all programs/files of hard drive
Analog Signal
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
Operating System Advantages
20. 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.
label
Turning Test
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
replication
21. Vertical
Output Devices
LAN
serif fonts
column
22. A computer especially designed to provide software and other resources to other computers over a network
Image analysis
Utility Program
Video teleconference
Server
23. 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
Humans < Computers (3)
FTP (file transfer protocol)
ROM
Domains
24. The combination of text - numbers - graphics - animation - sound effects - music and other media in a hyperlinked document.
Hypermedia
Bit
Bitmapped Graphics
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
25. Software that can be distributed and modified freely by users; example: Linux
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
Peripheral
Open-Source Software
cell format
26. Software that is free to try with a send-payment-to-keep honor system
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
Shareware
Compatibility
LAN
27. Uninterruptable Power Supply; A hardware device that protects computers from data loss during power failures
Commercial Software
Hypermedia
Advantages of Robots (3)
UPS
28. Measure of character size (one point equals 1/72 inch)
Logic Bomb
Open-Source Software
Bitmapped Graphics
point size
29. Instructions that tell the hardware what to do to transform the input into out put
Software
formula
Morph
Cookies
30. 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
Compatibility
automatic correction
Server
IP address
31. 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')
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
Arpanet
grammar and style checker
32. Using some combination of text - graphics - animation - video - music - voice and sound effects to communicate.
GB
Interactive Multimedia
'what if?' questions
Multimedia
33. Numbers which are the raw material used to perform calculations
Software Piracy
Access-Control Software
value
Camera-Ready
34. Most common security tools used to restrict access to computer systems.
Commercial Software
Convergence
Password
Firewall
35. Device for accepting input (e.g. a keyboard)
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Input Devices
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Ethernet
36. A popular networking architecture developed in 1976 at Xerox with general principles which apply to all common network connections
Ethernet
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Booting
relative reference
37. To copy software from an online source to a local computer
Download
Digital Video
formatting
font
38. Software that facilitates the arrangement of information into hierarchies or levels of ideas
outliner
System Administrator
Source Document
Augmented Reality
39. 1) vulnerable to network glitches and machine failures; 2) vulnerable to security breech; 3) filters out human component of communication (ex: eye contact; voice)
Animation
Sensor
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
cell format
40. 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.
Agent
System Administrator
justification
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
41. Free software that is not copyrighted - offered through World Wide Websites - electronic bulletin boards - user groups - and other sources
Hypertext
Page-Layout Software
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Public Domain Software
42. The science of designing work environments that enable people and things to interact efficiently and safely
Bar Code Reader
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Knowledge base
Ergonomics
43. 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
Protocol
point size
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
44. Information systems or software programs designed to replicate the decision-making process of a human expert.
serif fonts
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Rules of Netiquette (6)
Expert system
45. Loading the non-ROM part of the operating system into memory
Feedback Loop
Master Pages
Booting
Upload
46. The relatively easy use of a single color (or sometimes two) to add interest to a desktop-publishing product.
proportionally spaced fonts
Spot Color
Bar Code Reader
Netiquette
47. A software help agent that walks the user through a complex process
Feedback Loop
Inference engine
Expert system
Wizard
48. 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
Unicode
font
Pixel
49. Video reduced to a series of numbers (0 and 1) - which can be edited - stored - and played back without loss of quality.
Open-Source Software
Digital Video
justification
Advantages of DTP
50. 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.
Bar Code Reader
Advantages of DTP
Turning Test
Information