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IT Literacy
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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.
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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. A stream of bits
Bar Code Reader
Digital Signal
Simulation
GB
2. Megabyte; Approximately 1000K or 1 million bytes
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
Public Domain Software
Worm
MB
3. Documentation file that appears onscreen at the user's request
Help file
Resolution
Operating System
Access-Control Software
4. 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
Password
GUI Advantages
relative reference
Information
5. 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
Common-sense knowledge
IP address
Shareware
Operating System Advantages
6. Typeset-quality pages - ready to be photographed and printed.
Camera-Ready
Teleconference
serif fonts
System Administrator
7. Vertical
Search engine
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
Encryption
column
8. 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
LAN
Kerning
Integrated Software
Presentation-Graphics Software
9. To post software= or documents to an online source for availability to others
Domains
spell check
Upload
label
10. The process of simulation motion with a series of still pictures.
Disadvantages of ebooks
Animation
template
Defragmenting
11. The use of computers to draw products or process designs on the screen.
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
WAN
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Search engine
12. Computer controlled machines designed to perform specific manual tasks ('forced labor')
Trojan Horse
Virus
cell format
Robot
13. 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.
Full-Color
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
'what if?' questions
Packet-switching
14. Enables you to 'paint' pixels on the screen with a pointing device.
GUI
Painting Software
serif fonts
macro
15. 1) must be a disciplined worker -- self-motivation! (IB student); 2) must have good time management; 3) lack of socialization with coworkers
Disadvantages of telecommuting (3)
Digital Signal
Full-Color
Trojan Horse
16. A program that eliminates fragmented files by changing the assignment of clusters to files; Easier to find files/programs -> Faster computer
Download
Defragmenting
'Read-me' file
Factors that affect bandwidth (3)
17. 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
ASCII
Knowledge base
Analog Signal
Encryption
18. 1) color depth; 2) resolution
Bitmapped Graphics
Responsibilities of System Admin
'Read-me' file
Factors that control image quality (2)
19. The coming together of two or more disparate disciplines or technologies. (ex: fax machine which combines scanning/printing)
Responsibilities of System Admin
Newsgroups
Protocol
Convergence
20. Video reduced to a series of numbers (0 and 1) - which can be edited - stored - and played back without loss of quality.
Digital Video
Shareware
formula
Hacker
21. 1) vulnerable to network glitches and machine failures; 2) vulnerable to security breech; 3) filters out human component of communication (ex: eye contact; voice)
Mailing list
Bitmapped Graphics
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
Common-sense knowledge
22. Intersection of row and column
Booting
Turning Test
WWW (world wide web)
cell
23. 1) data stays consistent over distances; 2) more data can be transmitted; 3) can communicate with other devices
point size
Advantages of digital television (3)
Image Processing Software
Advantages of Robots (3)
24. Stores programs and the data they need to be instantly accessible to the CPU
Analog Signal
font
Training software
Memory
25. Spreadsheet document which appears on the screen as a grid or numbered rows/columns
Master Pages
Defragmenting
Video teleconference
worksheet
26. The spacing between lines of text.
Leading
Peripheral
Wizard
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
27. The narrow (but deep) knowledge base of an expert system.
'Read-me' file
absolute reference
Shareware
Domain
28. Documentation and help available through a software company's Web site
FTP (file transfer protocol)
Utility Program Features
Online help
Agent
29. The relatively easy use of a single color (or sometimes two) to add interest to a desktop-publishing product.
Common-sense knowledge
Camera-Ready
Spot Color
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
30. 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')
Humans < Computers (3)
Gigahertz
Arpanet
Knowledge base
31. Software that serves as tools for doing system maintenance and some repairs that are not automatically handled by the operating system;
Utility Program
Presentation-Graphics Software
Help file
Rules of Netiquette (6)
32. 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)
Rules of Netiquette (6)
ISP (Internet service provider)
Video teleconference
Pattern recognition
33. Software used as an introductory - teaching or transitional tool for user tasks
thesaurus
Training software
Ethernet
Upload
34. 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.
ISP (Internet service provider)
Agent
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Interactive Multimedia
35. The process of identifying objects and shapes in a photograph - drawing - video or other visual image. (Effortless for humans - difficult for computers)
Cookies
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
Open-Source Software
Image analysis
36. Reference to a cell in relation to the current cell; modifies when copied
relative reference
Bug
Unicode
MB
37. The address of a Web site. (unique)
URL (uniform resource locator)
Site License
Virtual Reality (VR)
Expert system
38. Local Area Network; Multiple personal computers connected on a network
absolute reference
LAN
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Bug
39. ~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
Domains
automatic correction
Inference engine
Model + / ?
40. Anything that can be communicated
Information
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Tutorial software
URL (uniform resource locator)
41. Using a computer to create - edit and print documents
worksheet
word processing
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Kerning
42. 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)
Machine learning
Ethernet
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
RAM
43. 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.
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Virtual Reality (VR)
Responsibilities of System Admin
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
44. A reading tool that uses light to read universal product codes - inventory codes - and other codes created out of patterns of variable-width bars
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
worksheet
Bar Code Reader
Booting
45. Television that processes information through a binary code rather than an analog signal.
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
Open-Source Software
Digital television
Augmented Reality
46. Graphics in which images are stored and manipulated as organized collections of pixels rather than as shapes and lines. Contrast with object-oriented graphics.
relative reference
Bitmapped Graphics
FTP (file transfer protocol)
automatic correction
47. A set of rules for the exchange of data between a terminal and a computer - or between two computers.
Protocol
Virtual Reality (VR)
Leading
serif fonts
48. An external device (i.e. keyboard - monitor) connected via cable to the system central processing unit (CPU)
automatic hyphenation
Tutorial software
Peripheral
word wrap
49. A program designed to attack in response to a particular logical even or sequence of events. A type of software sabotage.
Template
Logic Bomb
GUI
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
50. Reference to a specific cell address; doesn't change when copied
An example of presentation-graphics software
Knowledge base
absolute reference
grammar and style checker