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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. Word-processing feature that divides long words situated at the ends of lines
Video teleconference
Factors that control image quality (2)
Inference engine
automatic hyphenation
2. ~Advantages 1)Share data - increase productivity 2)Share hardware - reduce costs 3)Allow people to work together/communicate ~Disadvantages 1)Easier spread of viruses 2)Privacy issues - especially access levels not set 3)Integrity of data - when shar
Biometrics
Wizard
Networks: + / ?
RAM
3. The process of simulation motion with a series of still pictures.
Humans > Computers (8)
An example of presentation-graphics software
Sensor
Animation
4. A popular networking architecture developed in 1976 at Xerox with general principles which apply to all common network connections
Resolution
Ethernet
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
Mailing list
5. A database that contains both facts - and a system of rules for determining and changing the relationship among those facts.
Knowledge base
Hypermedia
Source Document
Bug
6. Typeset-quality pages - ready to be photographed and printed.
Camera-Ready
WAN
Hypertext
Advantages of digital television (3)
7. Worksheets which contain labels and formulas but no data values; instant answers are produced when information is provided
Utility Program
template
Arpanet
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
8. Terabyte; Approximately 1 million megabytes
Speech recognition
Operating System
OMR
TB
9. 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.
Backdoor
cell
Push technology
Shareware
10. An interactive cross-reference system that allows textual information to be linked in nonsequential ways. A hypertext document contains links that lead quickly to other parts of the document or to related documents.
Inference engine
monospaced fonts
Hypertext
Pattern recognition
11. Using multiple processors to divide jobs into pieces and work simultaneously on the pieces (multitasking!)
Protocol
Cookies
Intranet
Parallel processing
12. Using some combination of text - graphics - animation - video - music - voice and sound effects to communicate.
Vector Graphics
relative reference
Multimedia
Spot Color
13. A computer especially designed to provide software and other resources to other computers over a network
Augmented Reality
Feedback Loop
Server
absolute reference
14. Device for sending information from the computer (e.g. monitor or printer)
Rules of Netiquette (6)
Output Devices
automatic hyphenation
Resolution
15. Rules of etiquette that apply to Internet communication.
Netiquette
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Hyperlink
Interactive Multimedia
16. Measurements of individual body characteristics - such as voiceprint or fingerprint; sometimes used in computer security
Sensor
Biometrics
'Read-me' file
Arpanet
17. 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
Open-Source Software
Image analysis
Compatibility
Digital television
18. Block of information that appears at the bottom of every page in a document - displaying repetitive information such as automatically calculated page number
Operating System Advantages
footer
Help file
Backup
19. Copy files between storage devices; Repair damaged data files; Guard against viruses; Compress files to take up less disk space; example: defragmenting
Utility Program Features
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Software License
Access-Control Software
20. 1) Plan before you publish! 2) Use appropriate fonts. 3) Don't go 'style-crazy.' 4) Look at the document through the reader's eyes. 5) Learn from the masters. 6) Know your limitations. 7) Remember your message/objective.
Search engine
Backdoor
Rules of Thumb for DTP
Browser
21. Software help agent that walks the user through a complex process
Wizard
ISP (Internet service provider)
Parallel processing
Advantages of DTP
22. Software that is free to try with a send-payment-to-keep honor system
Backdoor
Login Name
Shareware
Morph
23. 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.
Netiquette
FTP (file transfer protocol)
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
24. Unauthorized access and/or vandalism of computer systems; short for criminal hacking
Cracking
'Read-me' file
GB
Vector Graphics
25. 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.
Virtual Reality (VR)
Help file
Backdoor
Arpanet
26. A stream of bits
Resolution
Digital Signal
Networks: + / ?
Online help
27. Fonts which provide more room for wide as opposed to narrow characters
proportionally spaced fonts
TB
Presentation-Graphics Software
value
28. 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)
Disadvantages of telecommuting (3)
Common-sense knowledge
Spot Color
29. An error in programming
Telecommuting
Page-Layout Software
Bug
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
30. Small files deposited on a user's hard disk by Web sites - enabling sites to remember what they know about their visitors between sessions.
Backup
Cookies
Push technology
Hypermedia
31. Information in a form that can be read - used and manipulated by a computer
Data
Login Name
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UPS
32. A computer model of a real life situation used to see how a model operates under certain conditions
TB
Virus
Simulation
WYSIWYG
33. Software that facilitates the arrangement of information into hierarchies or levels of ideas
outliner
Ethernet
Access-Control Software
Rules of Netiquette (6)
34. Long-term repository for data (e.g. disks - tapes)
Storage Devices
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
Hypertext
WYSIWYG
35. 1) Mathematical calculations faster w/ more accuracy; 2) storing vast amounts of data; 3) recall information
Humans < Computers (3)
relative reference
worksheet
Backup
36. Software used as an introductory - teaching or transitional tool for user tasks
Vector Graphics
UPS
Operating System Advantages
Training software
37. Random Access Memory; Memory that stores program instructions and data temporarily
Expert system
header
RAM
grammar and style checker
38. 1) data stays consistent over distances; 2) more data can be transmitted; 3) can communicate with other devices
FTP (file transfer protocol)
absolute reference
Morph
Advantages of digital television (3)
39. 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
Mailing list
Hyperlink
Knowledge base
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
40. Numbers which are the raw material used to perform calculations
Software License
Animation
value
word wrap
41. Fonts like those in the courier family that mimic typewriters; characters - no matter how narrow or wide - hold the same amount of space
monospaced fonts
'Read-me' file
Login Name
point size
42. 1) vulnerable to network glitches and machine failures; 2) vulnerable to security breech; 3) filters out human component of communication (ex: eye contact; voice)
Resolution
Bluetooth
Wizard
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
43. To post software= or documents to an online source for availability to others
Upload
Color Depth
Robot
Operating System Advantages
44. In desktop publishing - software used to combine various source documents into coherent - visually appealing publication (e.g. Adobe InDesign).
Ergonomics
Page-Layout Software
replication
UPS
45. The use of computers to draw products or process designs on the screen.
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Bluetooth
Resolution
Fuzzy logic
46. 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
function
monospaced fonts
IP address
replication
47. Software for editing digital video - including titles - sound and special effects.
Data
font
Video Editing Software
Password
48. The process of identifying objects and shapes in a photograph - drawing - video or other visual image. (Effortless for humans - difficult for computers)
font
Image analysis
WAN
point size
49. Instructions that tell the hardware what to do to transform the input into out put
'what if?' questions
Software
Intranet
Fuzzy logic
50. Software that enables the user to manipulate photographs and other high-resolution images.
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
Help file
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Image Processing Software