IPA IP 2023 Question 17
A question IPA Japan published in 令和5年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問17, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
With the advance of IT and the expansion of related services, it has become possible to use various data and tools in a company’s own business and daily work. Which of the following is the most appropriate term that represents the ability to appropriately utilize such data and tools for purposes such as problem solving?
Explanation
Information literacy — the ability to find the data and tools a task needs and use them properly to solve problems.
Information literacy covers collecting the information needed for a purpose, judging its reliability, processing and analysing it with the available tools, and using the result to make decisions, solve problems and communicate. As more data and IT services become available, it is what lets an employee turn them into results in business and daily work.
Answer (c)
Why not others:
- •(a) Accessibility — how easily a product, service or information can be used by everyone, including older people and people with disabilities; a property of the system, not a person’s ability
- •(b) Core competence — a company’s core capability that rivals cannot easily imitate and that underlies its competitive advantage
- •(d) Digital divide — the gap in information and opportunities between those who can use IT and those who cannot
Key rule: Literacy is a person’s ability to use information; accessibility is a system’s ease of use for all; the digital divide is the gap between those with and without that access and ability.
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