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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. 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
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
Hyperlink
Resolution
GUI
2. 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.
MB
Wizard
Push technology
WWW (world wide web)
3. Software for editing digital video - including titles - sound and special effects.
Video Editing Software
Turning Test
Processor
macro
4. Graphics in which images are stored and manipulated as organized collections of pixels rather than as shapes and lines. Contrast with object-oriented graphics.
Shareware
font
Web crawlers
Bitmapped Graphics
5. Measure of character size (one point equals 1/72 inch)
Factors that control image quality (2)
Help file
point size
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
6. Component of word-processing software that analyzes each word in context - checking for content errors - common grammatical errors - and stylistic problems
relative reference
template
Compatibility
grammar and style checker
7. Video clip in which one image metamorphoses into another.
Netiquette
function
Morph
automatic hyphenation
8. An individual responsible for maintaining a multi-user computer system
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Disadvantages of ebooks
OCR
System Administrator
9. Email discussion groups on special-interest topics. All subscribers receive messages sent to the group's mailing address. (private)
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Mailing list
cell
Virus
10. ~Adding/configuring new work stations ~Setting up user accounts ~Installing system wide software ~Performing preventative procedures for viruses ~Allocating storage space
Full-Color
Processor
Ethernet
Responsibilities of System Admin
11. 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
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Packet-switching
Source Document
Bar Code Reader
12. 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
Vector Graphics
Bluetooth
Disadvantages of ebooks
spell check
13. A handheld device that displays digital representations of the contents of books.
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
ASCII
Hyperlink
ebook (Electronic Book)
14. Software that derives logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true. ('If... then...' logic)
Speech recognition
Inference engine
function
Resolution
15. A popular networking architecture developed in 1976 at Xerox with general principles which apply to all common network connections
Telecommuting
Tutorial software
Ethernet
Web crawlers
16. A standard interface that allows electronic instruments and computers to communicate with each other and work together.
Input Devices
ebook (Electronic Book)
Data
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
17. Microsoft Powerpoint
Digital television
An example of presentation-graphics software
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
OCR
18. Technology in which browsers on client computers pull information from server machines; the browser needs to initiate a request before any information is delivered.
Public Domain Software
Pull technology
typeface
cell format
19. Information systems or software programs designed to replicate the decision-making process of a human expert.
Expert system
Digital Video
Hypermedia
word wrap
20. The storage of pictures as collections of lines - shapes and other objects.
Rules of Netiquette (6)
Vector Graphics
UPS
Newsgroups
21. Software that facilitates the arrangement of information into hierarchies or levels of ideas
Worm
outliner
Open-Source Software
Password
22. The field of computer science devoted to making computers perceive - reason and act in ways that have - until now - been reserved for human beings.
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Bar Code Reader
Server
23. 1) must be a disciplined worker -- self-motivation! (IB student); 2) must have good time management; 3) lack of socialization with coworkers
Full-Color
Disadvantages of telecommuting (3)
Painting Software
RAM
24. Function which enables users to change the appearance of a document by specifying the font - point size - and style of any character in the document - as well as the overall layout of text and graphical elements in the document
Logic Bomb
LAN
Search engine
formatting
25. Kilobyte; About 1000 bytes of information
macro
KB
ROM
Processor
26. 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)
spell check
Machine learning
UPS
Networks: + / ?
27. Software that enables the user to manipulate photographs and other high-resolution images.
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Netiquette
Image Processing Software
Knowledge base
28. Software that only allows user access according to the user's needs. Some users can open only files that are related to their work. Some users are allowed read-only access to files; they can see but not change them.
Defragmenting
Access-Control Software
LAN
Natural language
29. To post software= or documents to an online source for availability to others
Rules of thumb for using Powerpoint (6)
Parallel processing
Upload
Factors of a good pw...
30. Random Access Memory; Memory that stores program instructions and data temporarily
RAM
Virus
Inference engine
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
31. 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.
Resolution
Software Piracy
Factors that control image quality (2)
Pixel
32. 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
Worm
Advantages of digital television (3)
Leading
33. Language that people speak/write everyday.
Bug
Full-Color
Advantages of Expert Systems (4)
Natural language
34. 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.
Agent
KB
Hypertext
OCR
35. 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)
Compatibility
Hyperlink
Factors of a good pw...
36. In desktop publishing - the articles - chapters - drawings - maps - charts - and photographs that are to appear in the publication. Usually produces with standard word processors and graphics programs.
cell
Source Document
Bluetooth
Open-Source Software
37. Process of saving data - esp. for data recovery. Many systems automatically back up data and software onto disks or tapes
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Bit
Backup
Operating System Advantages
38. Face-to-face communication over long distances using video and computer technology.
Hypermedia
GUI Advantages
replication
Video teleconference
39. 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.
Pull technology
ebook (Electronic Book)
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Augmented Reality
40. A text file that includes codes that describe the format - layout - and logical structure of a hypermedia document. Most Web pages are created with this code.
Newsgroups
HTML (hypertext markup language)
Processor
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
41. A system of programs that performs a variety of technical operations - providing an additional layer of insulation between the user and the bits-and-bytes world of computer hardware
Software Piracy
Kerning
Hyperlink
Operating System
42. Binary digit; The smallest unit of information. A bit can have two values: 0 or 1
replication
spell check
Pixel
Bit
43. 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.
typeface
FTP (file transfer protocol)
LAN
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
44. The Internet protocol used to transfer Web pages.
thesaurus
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
Booting
ebook (Electronic Book)
45. 1) vulnerable to network glitches and machine failures; 2) vulnerable to security breech; 3) filters out human component of communication (ex: eye contact; voice)
OCR
Digital Signal
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
formatting
46. Fonts which provide more room for wide as opposed to narrow characters
Shareware
Operating System
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
proportionally spaced fonts
47. ~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
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
replication
Model + / ?
Networks: + / ?
48. 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.
Site License
Advantages of telecommuting (5)
Firewall
row
49. Using some combination of text - graphics - animation - video - music - voice and sound effects to communicate.
Multimedia
GUI Advantages
Domains
ASCII
50. Part of the computer which processes information - performs arithmetic calculations - and makes basic decisions based on information values
Processor
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Template
System Administrator