Digital Literacy Review

Caleb creates a business proposal on his home computer. He wants to use a storage device to save the proposal and take it to his office.Which of the following devices will Caleb use to store the files?

• Speakers
• Flash Drive
• Modem
• Microphone

Alexander needs to prepare the transcript for an audio file saved on his office computer. He wants to listen to the audio without disturbing his colleagues sitting nearby. Which of the following hardware devices will Alexander use?

• Headphone 
• Speaker
• Microphone
• Web Cam

Nahum wants to use his office computer. To log on to the computer, he needs to enter his logon details. Which of the following options does Nahum need in order to log on to the computer? 

• User name, Password
• Home Address, telephone number
• Student Id # and School net password
• Password

Bryce uses his computer to calculate the money he spent on transportation costs in the last two months. Which part of his computer will perform the calculations? 

• Monitor
• Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• DVD
• Hard Disk

Marko uses an instant messenger to chat with his friends over the Internet. How will you categorize an instant messenger? 

• Hardware
• Software
• Operating System
• Data

Angel listens to his friends talking about the Internet. He is curious about the Internet. How will you define the Internet to him? 

• A software program installed on a computer
• An electronic device for printing documents
• A worldwide collection of computer networks
• A power backup source

Francisco reads an advertisement about a computer hardware store. He wants to know the meaning of the term hardware. How will you define the term hardware for Francisco? 

• Physical parts of a computer
• An item of information
• Instructions that make programs work
• Rules designed to enable computers to connect with one another

Jocelyn notices that when she runs several programs simultaneously on her computer, the performance of the programs slows down considerably. What is the reason for this? 

• Nonfunctional keyboard
• Nonfunctional mouse
• Insufficient random access memory (RAM)
• Low monitor speed

Lindsey helps her son prepare for a computer exam. While describing the World Wide Web (WWW), she explains that he can access a Web site by using a unique alphanumeric address.To which of the following terms is Lindsey referring?

• Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
• Web browser
• Internet service provider (ISP)
• World Wide Web (WWW)

Lena receives an e-mail message from an online computer store offering her a new laptop at a very low price. She clicks the hyperlink in the message to open the Web page. The page requests her credit card details, and she enters her credit card number. After a few days, Lena finds that more money has been withdrawn from her credit card than she specified and that she did not receive the laptop. Lena realizes that she has been tricked by someone who created a site that looks like the actual computer store, but is not the official site for the computer store. Which one of the following terms refers to the type of attack described in this scenario?

• Decoding
• Encryption
• Phishing
• Spying