University of Maryland IFSM 201 Quiz 1
IFSM 201 – Quiz 1
1. What do you consider data?
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2. Information about a person, place or thing remains the same over time.
3. Information is made up of many pieces of data.
4. "Garbage in; garbage out" refers to
5. Raw information is us...
IFSM 201 – Quiz 1
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1. What do you consider data?
A set of numbers, numbers, words, pictures, etc. that have
been gathered about an object, idea, place, person, etc.
2. Information about a person, place or thing remains the same over
time.
FALSE
3. Information is made up of many pieces of data.
TRUE
4. "Garbage in; garbage out" refers to
Bad data resulting in bad information.
5. Raw information is useless.
TRUE
6. Knowledge is the foundation for Information.
FALSE
7. The blue pyramid displayed in the readings on Data and
Information is sometimes called the Knowledge Hierarchy. What
is the relationship between the three levels of the pyramid?
Information is based upon knowledge; data is based upon
information
8. The following would be an example of which type of data:
Responses posted to an open-ended questionnaire related to
movie preferences
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