Deck 2: Digital Literacy

Question 1

It will be years before researchers can transform text from a book's page into a digital representation.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Personal music videos that combine user-generated photos with audio music are a good example of _____.

A) parallel processing
B) digital convergence
C) computer literacy
D) ASCII

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A general-purpose computer relies on the _____ being used to perform an activity.

A) output
B) storage
C) software
D) literacy

Answer 3

C

Question 4

A computer-literate individual is expected to understand a computer's uses and how it operates.

Question 5

Using analog-to-_____ conversion,we are able to digitize the things we see and hear.

A) wave
B) high-speed
C) digital
D) color

Question 6

Thanks to _____,voice and data traveling together through our telecommunications lines will be seamless.

A) VIP
B) ViIP
C) VoIP
D) ASCII

Question 7

An example of digital convergence is a smart phone,which combines many digital functions into one device.

Question 8

The term _____ best describes the level of technology skills needed in today's business world.

A) computer knowledge
B) computer fluency
C) computer digitization
D) computer information

Question 9

The main purpose of a computer is to process useful information into data.

Question 10

A group of eight bits is called a hexadecimal value.

Question 11

A computer relies on the combination of _____ and _____ to turn input into output.

A) analog waves,digital waves
B) the Internet,web sites
C) electrical devices,electrical charges
D) hardware,software

Question 12

QWERTY code is the standard used to represent keyboard characters in digital form.

Question 13

A _____ can represent a digit,a letter,or a color.

A) byte
B) decimal
C) scheme
D) sample

Question 14

A computer that manages data and produces information often uses a _____ to organize and deliver it.

A) scanner
B) stylus
C) server
D) database

Question 15

Computer _____ capture(s)the essence of today's business expectations for knowledge workers within their organizations.

A) literacy
B) fluency
C) engineers
D) analysts

Question 16

A computer uses _____ to display an image after it has been digitized.

A) icons
B) digits
C) samples
D) pixels

Question 17

The electronic instructions that tell a computer what to do are commonly referred to as hardware.

Question 18

Digital literacy has become a requirement for most careers.

Question 19

The prefix Giga represents approximately one _____ units of information.

A) thousand
B) million
C) billion
D) trillion

Question 20

A bit has three states: on,off,and null.

Question 21

ASCII is the encoding standard used to represent _____ in digital form.

A) video
B) audio
C) keyboard characters
D) signals

Question 22

The _____ system is used to represent RGB color in digital graphics.

A) binary
B) hexadecimal
C) unary
D) decimal

Question 23

The _____ system,which uses only two digits,1 and 0,is commonly used for representing values in computers.

A) RGB
B) decimal number
C) hexadecimal number
D) binary number

Question 24

A common measurement for hard drive storage today is _____.

A) kilobytes
B) gigabytes
C) exabytes
D) megabits

Question 25

What two values represent the binary number system?

A) 1 and 2
B) 0 and -1
C) 0 and 1
D) A and B

Question 26

The Unicode encoding scheme is used to add support for _____ character sets.

A) EBCDIC
B) national
C) standard
D) international