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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. 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)
absolute reference
Login Name
automatic correction
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
2. A picture element (dot) on a computer screen or printout. Groups of pixels compose the images on the monitor and the output of a printout.
header
Bitmapped Graphics
Pixel
Mailing list
3. Fonts which provide more room for wide as opposed to narrow characters
Virus
Pull technology
'what if?' questions
proportionally spaced fonts
4. The coming together of two or more disparate disciplines or technologies. (ex: fax machine which combines scanning/printing)
Upload
Convergence
Access-Control Software
Worm
5. The illegal duplication of copyrighted software
Cracking
Software Piracy
Video teleconference
Simulation
6. The narrow (but deep) knowledge base of an expert system.
Expert system
Domain
grammar and style checker
Bandwidth
7. Software used as an introductory - teaching or transitional tool for user tasks
spell check
Training software
Bar Code Reader
'what if?' questions
8. Small files deposited on a user's hard disk by Web sites - enabling sites to remember what they know about their visitors between sessions.
Cookies
Mailing list
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
URL (uniform resource locator)
9. The spacing between lines of text.
Leading
Byte
Defragmenting
Turning Test
10. 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 -
Hypertext
Sensor
MB
Shareware
11. 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
Byte
Responsibilities of System Admin
GUI Advantages
Speech recognition
12. 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.
Packet-switching
Fuzzy logic
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
Advantages of DTP
13. Bit depth; the number of bits devoted to each pixel.
WWW (world wide web)
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
Color Depth
cell
14. An online meeting between 2 or more people; done in 'real time' (ex: IM [instant messaging])
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
Online help
Agent
Teleconference
15. 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.
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Pattern recognition
An example of presentation-graphics software
Compatibility
16. Multimedia that enables the user to take an active part in the experience.
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
Vector Graphics
Interactive Multimedia
Digital Signal
17. 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.
Memory
Push technology
Web crawlers
Bitmapped Graphics
18. The use of computers to draw products or process designs on the screen.
Login Name
Bit
Digital Video
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
19. 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.
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
Turning Test
Template
Mailing list
20. Uninterruptable Power Supply; A hardware device that protects computers from data loss during power failures
Digital Video
UPS
Download
Disadvantages of telecommuting (3)
21. Part of the Internet - a collection of multimedia documents created by organizations and users worldwide. Documents are linked in a hypertext Web site that allows users to explore them with simpler mouse clicks.
function
WWW (world wide web)
GUI Advantages
Server
22. 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.
relative reference
Agent
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
Ethernet
23. A computer especially designed to provide software and other resources to other computers over a network
IP address
Knowledge engineer
Server
Video Editing Software
24. Free software that is not copyrighted - offered through World Wide Websites - electronic bulletin boards - user groups - and other sources
macro
Fuzzy logic
Vector Graphics
Public Domain Software
25. User Name; A one-word name that you type to identify yourself when connecting
Arpanet
KB
Intranet
Login Name
26. 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')
Rules of Netiquette (6)
Upload
Arpanet
Turning Test
27. Spreadsheet software function enabling users to change the appearance of cell contents
Digital television
cell format
Model
Inference engine
28. A defense department system with 24 satellites that can pinpoint any location on the Earth.
Software
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Global positioning system
URL (uniform resource locator)
29. Feature in spreadsheet software that allows speculation by providing instant answers to hypothetical questions
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
30. Computer controlled machines designed to perform specific manual tasks ('forced labor')
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Commercial Software
Robot
Training software
31. 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.
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
Agent
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
Push technology
32. Video reduced to a series of numbers (0 and 1) - which can be edited - stored - and played back without loss of quality.
Kerning
Digital Video
Bitmapped Graphics
Humans < Computers (3)
33. ~Advantages 1)Safety: easy to simulate without actual risk 2)Economy: Build/simulate/destroy without waste 3)Projection 4)Visualization 5)Replication: Redo/rerun/alter easily ~Disadvantages 1)Reliability 2)Depends on original info 3)Complete trust fa
Model + / ?
Backdoor
Bitmapped Graphics
Protocol
34. 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)
Pattern recognition
Password
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
Access-Control Software
35. Size and style of typeface
Advantages of DTP
Virtual Reality (VR)
Hacker
font
36. The address of a Web site. (unique)
row
URL (uniform resource locator)
Master Pages
Packet-switching
37. Video clip in which one image metamorphoses into another.
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Encryption
Memory
Morph
38. Device for sending information from the computer (e.g. monitor or printer)
absolute reference
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
Output Devices
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
39. 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
Humans > Computers (8)
cell format
Encryption
40. A method of compression that can squeeze a music file to a fraction of its original CD sized with only slight loss of quality.
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
FTP (file transfer protocol)
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
41. The spacing between letter pairs in a document.
Morph
worksheet
Speech recognition
Kerning
42. An external device (i.e. keyboard - monitor) connected via cable to the system central processing unit (CPU)
Open-Source Software
An example of presentation-graphics software
Peripheral
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
43. Terabyte; Approximately 1 million megabytes
Netiquette
Color Depth
TB
Humans < Computers (3)
44. The use of computer displays that add virtual information to a person's sensory perceptions - supplementing rather than replacing (as in virtual reality) the world the user sees.
Expert system
Login Name
Augmented Reality
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
45. American Standard Code for Information Interchange; A code that represents characters as 8-bit codes. Allows the binary computer to work with letters - digits and special characters
ASCII
Site License
Simulation
WWW (world wide web)
46. 1) ability to create models with physical characteristics (weight and volume); 2) model can be rotated; 3) can evaluate structural performance by applying an imaginary force; 4) designs can be easily altered and edited
Drawing Software
GB
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
Wizard
47. Synonym finder
Expert system
Upload
ebook (Electronic Book)
thesaurus
48. A set of rules for the exchange of data between a terminal and a computer - or between two computers.
Advantages of DTP
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
Protocol
Hypertext
49. Software used mainly to produce print publications. Also - the process of using desktop-publishing software to produce publications (e.g. brochures - newsletters - forms - menus - event fliers - notices)
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Cracking
50. Provides direct instruction in a clearly specified skill of subject
grammar and style checker
macro
Tutorial software
Biometrics