CFU 1.1 - Digital Literacy Notes

What is digital literacy primarily concerned with?

• Cooking

• Computers, mobile devices, the Internet, and related technology

• Gardening

• Painting

Which of the following is a benefit of digital literacy?

• The ability to safely share ideas, photos, documents, and communications with others

• The ability to cook faster

• The ability to run faster

• The ability to sleep longer.

What is the primary function of a computer?

• To store data

• To operate under the control of instructions stored in its own memory

• To perform only mechanical operations

• To produce information.

A computer must be able to do which of the following. Select all the apply

• electricity

• store

• process

• input

• output

What type of operations do analog computers use to perform calculations?

• Digital operations

• Continuous operations

• Quantum operations

• Binary operations

What are digital computers?

• Devices that use a binary system to store information

• Devices that use continuous data to store information

• Devices that use analog signals to represent data

• Devices that do not store information.

Fill in the blank: Digital computers use 1s and 0s to represent data in the form of ______.

• sound

• code

• light

• waves

Which of the following is a type of computer?

• Desktop

• Smartphone

• Tablet

• All of the above.

Supercomputers are usually used by ________.

• home users

• high schools

• research labs

• small businessess

A Personal Computer (PC) is intended to be used by ______.

• multiple people at a time

• one person at a time

• no one

• a group of people