Data & Storage

Marco had a database that showed the first, second, and third favorite ice cream flavors for each person in his school. He used it to decide which flavors to order for the school’s café. What has Marco done?

• turned information into data

• turned data into information

• turned data into binary numbers

• turned binary numbers into data

Cynthia finds a spreadsheet on her desk. It has rows and columns of numbers, such as 37, 28, 91, and 12, but Cynthia is not sure what the numbers mean. Which term best describes what Cynthia has?information

• information

• binary numbers

• data

• programmatics

Ning wants to gather data about humidity for a science project. Which of these are needed to gather data?

• binary code

• information

• an input device

• an output device

Which of these is not considered a digital product?

• a smartwatch

• a heart rate monitor

• a bracelet

• a sleep tracking app

Wendy wants to learn how to write a computer program that can get the dimensions of a rectangle from the user and then tell the user what the area of the rectangle is. Which of these should Wendy research?

• binary code for area

• algorithms for finding the area

• input devices for area determinations

• the area of the Internet of Things

You run a small online store that sells sculptures that you make. You decide to track what your visitors enter into the search box and then make sculptures that match what customers are searching for. In this process, how are you treating data?

• as a liability

• as portable

• as customary

• as an asset

You use a web browser to search for “winter sweaters” on your laptop. Later, you are playing a game on your phone and an ad showing eight sweaters appears. This might be a coincidence, but it is more likely that your web browser did which of the following?

• input-output allocation

• binary conversion

• step-wise refinement

• data mining

Your health insurance company gives you a discount if you wear a fitness-tracking bracelet. After wearing it for a few months, you get a letter in the mail informing you that your insurance rate will decrease for next year since you exercise nearly every day. Which of the following has the insurance company performed?

• data elevation

• data conversion

• data correlation

• data misinformation

data misinformation

• investing in more bandwidth

• investing in better security

• investing in faster processors

• investing in more mainframes

Which of the following is NOT a way that a company can improve the security of the data that it collects?

• increasing its upload speed

• creating better firewalls

• requiring stronger passwords

• encrypting information