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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. Measure of character size (one point equals 1/72 inch)
Source Document
point size
Netiquette
Inference engine
2. A software help agent that walks the user through a complex process
justification
Wizard
Bar Code Reader
Simulation
3. Vertical
Motion Picture Audio Layer (MP3)
Memory
column
Humans < Computers (3)
4. 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
User Interface
IP address
Help file
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
5. Step-by-step procedure for calculating a number
formula
Advantages of DTP
GB
RAM
6. 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
Vector Graphics
Sensor
Newsgroups
Utility Program Features
7. 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.
Mailing list
word processing
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Logic Bomb
8. A type of logic that allows conclusions to be stated as probabilities rather than certainties. (Used by inference engines and knowledge bases)
Fuzzy logic
Digital television
Model + / ?
ISP (Internet service provider)
9. Intersection of row and column
Full-Color
Advantages of DTP
Simulation
cell
10. 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.
Disadvantages of ebooks
monospaced fonts
Expert system
Virtual Reality (VR)
11. The process of simulation motion with a series of still pictures.
Animation
Cookies
Color Depth
Booting
12. 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.
Rules of Thumb for DTP
ROM
Download
Server
13. Bit depth; the number of bits devoted to each pixel.
Color Depth
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Digital Signal
automatic hyphenation
14. The field of computer science devoted to making computers perceive - reason and act in ways that have - until now - been reserved for human beings.
Augmented Reality
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
cell
Digital Video
15. Graphics in which images are stored and manipulated as organized collections of pixels rather than as shapes and lines. Contrast with object-oriented graphics.
Bitmapped Graphics
ebook (Electronic Book)
Painting Software
outliner
16. Optical Mark Reader; A reading device that uses reflected light to determine the location of pencil marks on standardized test answer sheets and similar forms
Model + / ?
OMR
Memory
Template
17. Software used as an introductory - teaching or transitional tool for user tasks
header
Training software
Backup
Robot
18. Provides direct instruction in a clearly specified skill of subject
GUI
Tutorial software
Pattern recognition
'what if?' questions
19. 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
KB
Utility Program Features
GUI Advantages
Inference engine
20. 'what you see is what you get' (wizzy-wig); arrangement of words on the screen representing a close approximation to the arrangement of words on the printed page
Humans < Computers (3)
Trojan Horse
Site License
WYSIWYG
21. The density of pixels - measured by the number of dots per inch.
Output Devices
Resolution
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
URL (uniform resource locator)
22. Text-editing feature of a word-processing program which automatically moves any words that won't fit on the current line to the next line - along with the cursor
Interactive Multimedia
word wrap
Fuzzy logic
Model
23. Read-Only Memory; Memory that include permanent information only. The computer can only read information from in; it can never write any new information on it
ROM
monospaced fonts
replication
function
24. The process of identifying objects and shapes in a photograph - drawing - video or other visual image. (Effortless for humans - difficult for computers)
Spot Color
Newsgroups
Encryption
Image analysis
25. Billions of clock cycles per second - a measurement of a computer's clock speed
Simulation
word wrap
Gigahertz
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (P2P)
26. In desktop publishing - software used to combine various source documents into coherent - visually appealing publication (e.g. Adobe InDesign).
Hypertext
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Integrated Software
Page-Layout Software
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.
Convergence
Presentation-Graphics Software
Bitmapped Graphics
Push technology
28. Random Access Memory; Memory that stores program instructions and data temporarily
Template
Peripheral
RAM
Wizard
29. The address of a Web site. (unique)
Video Editing Software
Software
Unicode
URL (uniform resource locator)
30. (autocorrect) word-processing feature that places footnotes where they belong on the page
User Interface
automatic correction
TCP/IP (transmission control protocol / Internet protocol)
Processor
31. Grouping of 8 bits
Advantages of teleconferencing (3)
Byte
typeface
Humans < Computers (3)
32. Software help agent that walks the user through a complex process
Fuzzy logic
Wizard
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Resolution
33. 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
TB
Animation
Defragmenting
Advantages of Computer Aided Design (CAD) (4)
34. ~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
Feedback Loop
Model + / ?
Disadvantages of telecommuting (3)
GB
35. Using multiple processors to divide jobs into pieces and work simultaneously on the pieces (multitasking!)
Parallel processing
Camera-Ready
Bar Code Reader
Byte
36. 1) data stays consistent over distances; 2) more data can be transmitted; 3) can communicate with other devices
Advantages of digital television (3)
Backdoor
RAM
Gigahertz
37. Spreadsheet software function enabling users to change the appearance of cell contents
Tim Burners-Lee (4)
cell format
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Operating System Advantages
38. 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
Image analysis
Disadvantages of Expert Systems (2)
Domains
Hyperlink
39. Typeface fonts in which the characters are embellished with fine lines (serifs) at the ends of the main strokes
outliner
IP address
value
serif fonts
40. A word - phrase - or picture that acts as a button - enabling the user to explore the Web or a multimedia document with mouse clicks.
PDF (Portable Document Format)
Hyperlink
template
Feedback Loop
41. Programs that use computer hosts to reproduce themselves. Worm programs travel independently over computer networks - seeking out uninfected workstations to occupy. A form of software sabotage
Software Piracy
Integrated Software
Worm
outliner
42. Video reduced to a series of numbers (0 and 1) - which can be edited - stored - and played back without loss of quality.
row
grammar and style checker
Digital Video
Advantages of digital television (3)
43. 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
Trojan Horse
ASCII
Help file
GUI
44. A handheld device that displays digital representations of the contents of books.
Information
Image analysis
outliner
ebook (Electronic Book)
45. A program designed to attack in response to a particular logical even or sequence of events. A type of software sabotage.
Image analysis
Output Devices
Logic Bomb
ebook (Electronic Book)
46. Video clip in which one image metamorphoses into another.
Morph
proportionally spaced fonts
Kerning
absolute reference
47. A class of Internet addresses indicated by a suffix such as: .com - .gov - .net
Video Editing Software
Disadvantages of hypertext (4)
Domains
Bandwidth
48. 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)
macro
Resolution
Cracking
49. A reading tool that uses light to read universal product codes - inventory codes - and other codes created out of patterns of variable-width bars
Disadvantages of teleconferencing (4)
Bug
GUI
Bar Code Reader
50. A 65 -000-character set for making letters - digits - and special characters fit into the computer's binary circuitry
Global positioning system
Unicode
Camera-Ready
justification