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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.
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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 database that contains both facts - and a system of rules for determining and changing the relationship among those facts.
Login Name
Knowledge base
header
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
2. 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
Full-Color
Search engine
footer
3. The relatively easy use of a single color (or sometimes two) to add interest to a desktop-publishing product.
Spot Color
Common-sense knowledge
Input Devices
Painting Software
4. Word-processing feature that divides long words situated at the ends of lines
LAN
automatic hyphenation
Site License
Firewall
5. Text entry providing information of the contents of a row/column
label
Memory
Master Pages
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
6. 1) data stays consistent over distances; 2) more data can be transmitted; 3) can communicate with other devices
Advantages of digital television (3)
System Administrator
Arpanet
Intranet
7. 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 -
Gigahertz
Sensor
font
Multimedia
8. 1) Poor at planning strategies (less creativity than humans) and can't make decisions (after diagnosis - can't say how to treat patient); 2) powerless outside narrow (but deep) domain of knowledge
Pixel
automatic correction
Software License
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
9. A way to test machine intelligence. (Tester and subject converse - and tester attempts to perceive whether it's a human or computer)
Parallel processing
Online help
Turning Test
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
10. Device for sending information from the computer (e.g. monitor or printer)
Agent
Logic Bomb
Digital Video
Output Devices
11. A business that provides its customers with connections to the Internet (along with other services).
ISP (Internet service provider)
'Read-me' file
LAN
Intranet
12. Language that people speak/write everyday.
Natural language
Hypermedia
HTML (hypertext markup language)
Software Piracy
13. The storage of pictures as collections of lines - shapes and other objects.
thesaurus
Pixel
Vector Graphics
Simulation
14. Software which must be purchased through commercial channels and is copyrighted; Cannot be legally duplicated for others
Commercial Software
Unicode
template
Biometrics
15. 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
automatic correction
Compatibility
Output Devices
Image analysis
16. User Name; A one-word name that you type to identify yourself when connecting
ebook (Electronic Book)
Login Name
Command-Line Interface
Data
17. 1) flexible schedule; 2) save time commuting and save $; 3) better for the environment (less gas consumption); 4) better ergonomics (working conditions); 5) save office space/expenses.
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Ergonomics
Software License
formula
18. Knowledge acquired from living in the world.
OMR
Common-sense knowledge
Mailing list
Teleconference
19. 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
Download
Utility Program Features
Open-Source Software
20. Local Area Network; Multiple personal computers connected on a network
relative reference
LAN
Tutorial software
Color Depth
21. 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
Domains
cell format
FTP (file transfer protocol)
Newsgroups
22. Part of the computer which processes information - performs arithmetic calculations - and makes basic decisions based on information values
Speech recognition
Processor
Bitmapped Graphics
'Read-me' file
23. Allows documents of all types to be stored - viewed - or modified on any Windows or Macintosh computer - making it possible for many organizations to reduce paper flow.
WWW (world wide web)
thesaurus
OCR
PDF (Portable Document Format)
24. A method of compression that can squeeze a music file to a fraction of its original CD sized with only slight loss of quality.
Web crawlers
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
Responsibilities of System Admin
Compatibility
25. Billions of clock cycles per second - a measurement of a computer's clock speed
IP address
Gigahertz
label
Wizard
26. Typeset-quality pages - ready to be photographed and printed.
Camera-Ready
WAN
RAM
automatic correction
27. 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.
Newsgroups
Push technology
Protocol
outliner
28. Created: 1) URL; 2) HTML; 3) HTTP://; 4) first 'browser'
Agent
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
Kerning
Morph
29. ~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
proportionally spaced fonts
Model + / ?
Parallel processing
Pattern recognition
30. Custom-designed procedure program which automates tasks in an application program
macro
absolute reference
WWW (world wide web)
spell check
31. Software that facilitates the arrangement of information into hierarchies or levels of ideas
typeface
outliner
justification
ISP (Internet service provider)
32. The illegal duplication of copyrighted software
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
Software Piracy
Full-Color
ISP (Internet service provider)
33. ~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
Networks: + / ?
Wizard
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
header
34. Fonts which provide more room for wide as opposed to narrow characters
Factors of a good pw...
Commercial Software
proportionally spaced fonts
WWW (world wide web)
35. A type of logic that allows conclusions to be stated as probabilities rather than certainties. (Used by inference engines and knowledge bases)
Push technology
monospaced fonts
Fuzzy logic
Master Pages
36. The process of simulation motion with a series of still pictures.
Animation
Fuzzy logic
Domains
Agent
37. A type of wireless device that enables mobile phones - hand-held computers - and PCs to communicate with each other regardless of operating system.
Bluetooth
Biometrics
Speech recognition
TB
38. Automatic replication of values - labels and formulas
spell check
Video teleconference
replication
Teleconference
39. 1) Robot must not injure a human or - by inaction - allow a human to come to harm; 2) must obey orders given by humans (except where the order conflicts w/ first law); 3) must protect its own existence (w/o conflicting w/ first & second law)
Laws of Robots (3) (Asimov)
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
range
cell format
40. A stream of bits
Digital Signal
Biometrics
OMR
GB
41. Computer controlled machines designed to perform specific manual tasks ('forced labor')
Pixel
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Pull technology
Robot
42. A computer especially designed to provide software and other resources to other computers over a network
Server
absolute reference
Access-Control Software
Packet-switching
43. A self-contained intra-organizational network that is designed using the same technology as the Internet. (within organization)
Kerning
Intranet
'Read-me' file
formatting
44. Email discussion groups on special-interest topics. All subscribers receive messages sent to the group's mailing address. (private)
Mailing list
Knowledge engineer
URL (uniform resource locator)
Virus
45. 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.
URL (uniform resource locator)
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
'what if?' questions
Packet-switching
46. Information systems or software programs designed to replicate the decision-making process of a human expert.
Online help
Responsibilities of System Admin
Expert system
Simulation
47. Gigabyte; Approximately 1000 MB
Inference engine
GB
Memory
Trojan Horse
48. 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')
Browser
Utility Program
Arpanet
Ergonomics
49. Loading the non-ROM part of the operating system into memory
Defragmenting
Training software
Booting
Shareware
50. To post software= or documents to an online source for availability to others
Advantages of digital television (3)
Upload
Operating System
Logic Bomb