CSTU 101 EVALUATION EXAMS UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What was the name of the French mathematician and astronomer who illustrates
how optimistic Enlightenment thinkers were about human reason? - ✔✔Laplace
✔✔What term is used to describe the age of the computer, in which the collection and
processing of information has become the basis of an increasingly global culture? -
✔✔Information age
✔✔What is the 3rd revolution described by Alvin Toffler in his book "The Third Wave"
(1980)? - ✔✔Information
✔✔What two revolutions are claimed to come before the Information Revolution? -
✔✔Agricultural and Industrial
✔✔What hierarchical model was an attempt to represent how information is organized
in increasingly complex patterns; and what are the different levels from bottom to top? -
✔✔Dikw Pyramid
✔✔What is the natural world around us turning into? - ✔✔A virtual world
, ✔✔Collectively, humanity produces how much data every year? - ✔✔5 zettabytes
✔✔What part of the DIKW pyramid is often described as symbols/signals; "merely raw
facts" unprocessed; has no reference outside itself and has therefore no "meaning"; and
an example of this is a spreadsheet? - ✔✔Data
✔✔What part of the DIKW pyramid is data processed into specific connections that give
it meaning; it is filtered and organized; as well as the "meaning" we extract from data as
we place it in a context? - ✔✔Information
✔✔What part of the DIKW pyramid is usually described as information put into action,
information turned into instructions; and the emphasis is placed on UTILITY? -
✔✔Knowledge
✔✔What part of the DIKW pyramid as value to the hierarchy, and therefore requires the
quality of "judgment"; and there is a moral and ethical element here that assumes not
just a rational being, but a moral being as well? - ✔✔Wisdom
✔✔Zeleny described data from the DIKW pyramid as what? - ✔✔Know-Nothing
✔✔Zeleny described information from the DIKW pyramid as what? - ✔✔Know-What
✔✔Zeleny described knowledge from the DIKW pyramid as what? - ✔✔Know-How
✔✔Zeleny described wisdom from the DIKW pyramid as what? - ✔✔Know-Why
✔✔Too much _____________ tends to level out the importance of any single piece of
_______________. - ✔✔Information
✔✔What is "flexible", able to be edited? - ✔✔Information
✔✔What is defined as the process of international integration arising ideas and other
aspects of culture; advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure.
including the rise of the telegraph and its posterity the internet, are major factors? -
✔✔Globalization
✔✔What are the three different aspects that culture is being transformed? -
✔✔Experiential, commercial, intellectual aspect
✔✔What aspect of culture transformation is that for the first time in human history, we
are able to experience events globally? - ✔✔Experiential Aspect
✔✔What event is known as the "1st global event"? - ✔✔Moonlanding in 1969
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What was the name of the French mathematician and astronomer who illustrates
how optimistic Enlightenment thinkers were about human reason? - ✔✔Laplace
✔✔What term is used to describe the age of the computer, in which the collection and
processing of information has become the basis of an increasingly global culture? -
✔✔Information age
✔✔What is the 3rd revolution described by Alvin Toffler in his book "The Third Wave"
(1980)? - ✔✔Information
✔✔What two revolutions are claimed to come before the Information Revolution? -
✔✔Agricultural and Industrial
✔✔What hierarchical model was an attempt to represent how information is organized
in increasingly complex patterns; and what are the different levels from bottom to top? -
✔✔Dikw Pyramid
✔✔What is the natural world around us turning into? - ✔✔A virtual world
, ✔✔Collectively, humanity produces how much data every year? - ✔✔5 zettabytes
✔✔What part of the DIKW pyramid is often described as symbols/signals; "merely raw
facts" unprocessed; has no reference outside itself and has therefore no "meaning"; and
an example of this is a spreadsheet? - ✔✔Data
✔✔What part of the DIKW pyramid is data processed into specific connections that give
it meaning; it is filtered and organized; as well as the "meaning" we extract from data as
we place it in a context? - ✔✔Information
✔✔What part of the DIKW pyramid is usually described as information put into action,
information turned into instructions; and the emphasis is placed on UTILITY? -
✔✔Knowledge
✔✔What part of the DIKW pyramid as value to the hierarchy, and therefore requires the
quality of "judgment"; and there is a moral and ethical element here that assumes not
just a rational being, but a moral being as well? - ✔✔Wisdom
✔✔Zeleny described data from the DIKW pyramid as what? - ✔✔Know-Nothing
✔✔Zeleny described information from the DIKW pyramid as what? - ✔✔Know-What
✔✔Zeleny described knowledge from the DIKW pyramid as what? - ✔✔Know-How
✔✔Zeleny described wisdom from the DIKW pyramid as what? - ✔✔Know-Why
✔✔Too much _____________ tends to level out the importance of any single piece of
_______________. - ✔✔Information
✔✔What is "flexible", able to be edited? - ✔✔Information
✔✔What is defined as the process of international integration arising ideas and other
aspects of culture; advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure.
including the rise of the telegraph and its posterity the internet, are major factors? -
✔✔Globalization
✔✔What are the three different aspects that culture is being transformed? -
✔✔Experiential, commercial, intellectual aspect
✔✔What aspect of culture transformation is that for the first time in human history, we
are able to experience events globally? - ✔✔Experiential Aspect
✔✔What event is known as the "1st global event"? - ✔✔Moonlanding in 1969
