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Computer Literacy
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Copyright
Animate
Indicators
Task-switching
2. A box that allows the process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Print dialog box
Prompt
Toggles
Pointer
3. Toolbar used to format documents
Formatting toolbar
Font dialog box
Analog
Menu toolbar
4. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Screensaver
Document
Outline View
Brochures
5. Where the text is automatically entered
Storage
Deleted items
AutoContent
Attach
6. The process of writing data to a storage medium such as a floppy diskette or a hard disk drive
MIN
Program
Typeface & Font
SAVE
7. Universal Automatic Computer the UNIVAC is an electrical computer containing thousands of vacuum tubes that utilizes punch cards and switches for inputting data and punch cards for outputting and storing data.
.doc
Timing
Note Pad
UNIVAC
8. To do this - you click on something and hold the button down. This will move the object you clicked on and will leave it where you let go of the button. So it drags it and drops it.
Align
Drag & Drop
Power Point
Grammar Checker
9. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
Active cell
Spam
Ad-ware
DSL
10. To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis
Design
Organize
Analyze
Contacts
11. Minimum
MIN
Task-switching
DSL
MS-DOS
12. Row of boxes - often at the top of an application window that control various functions of the software
Monitor
Chart
Calculator
Toolbar
13. The default document name in Excel
Margins
Signature block
.xls
CLOSE
14. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
Note Pad
Num lock
MEDIAN
Dial-up
15. Central Processing Unit. The brain of the computer.
Download
CPU
Field
Calculator
16. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Power Point
Annotations
Create
Search & Replace
17. A column in a table
Field
Web page
WWW
Menu
18. Short for document
Refresh
.doc
Input device
Inbox
19. Space separating text or other elements from the edge of the paper commonly adjusted through the page setup.
AutoContent
Outbox
Joystick
Margins
20. Sections of a document that are unused. White spaces help separate paragraphs of text - graphics and other portions of a document - and helps a document look less crowded.
spacing
Junk
Analog
Built-in Styles
21. A box that helps with the overall process of connecting and preparing a software program - hardware device or computer to function properly.
Banners
Setup dialog box
Word wrap
Enter
22. Unique location identified by intersecting column and row coordinates. (spreadsheet application) -The address or name of a specific cell. Cell references may be used in formulas and are relative or absolute. (spreadsheet application)
HTTP
Download
Cell address/cell reference
Typeface & Font
23. A set of programs that - among other things - controls the way information is loaded into memory - the way the computer works with that information - the way information is stored on a disk - and the way the computer communicates with a printer and o
Print
Operating system
AVERAGE
Tables
24. Command or option used to close a program or file.
EXIT
Imported
AutoContent
Frame
25. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Exported
Print dialog box
Merged
Word wrap
26. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
Caps lock
Line-spacing
Output device
Sort
27. The type and how big the text or object is
Size & Style
Design
Layout
Menu - drop-down
28. A file that has been created with an overall layout and format to be used for a group of documents or a generic document.
Input
Insert/Type over
Template
Column
29. The process of launching the web page into the public for use.
Publish
Worksheet
Analog
Currency
30. A collection of icons - pictures - buttons and other useful image files along with sound and video files that can be embedded or inserted into web pages.
Line-spacing
Secondary storage device
Clipart
WYSIWYG
31. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
Search & Replace
UNIVAC
Objects box/pane
MS Windows
32. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Layout
Secondary storage device
Ad-ware
Function
33. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
Calendar
Smart Tag
WWW
Output
34. A term used to describe the process of searching for - locating and returning data.
Web site
Update
Retrieve
Chart
35. Microsoft software presentation program that allows a user to create a slide show of important notes that can be easily shown and moved through during a presentation
Output
Power Point
Letters
Background
36. The location of a specific cell or range expressed by the coordinates of column and row; for example - A1. (spreadsheet application)
Toggle Switches
WYSIWYG
Tasks
Address
37. E-mail software program by Microsoft that enables users to easily send and receive e-mail on their computer
Margins
Prompt
Print
Outlook
38. A key that - when pressed in conjunction with another key - creates a special effect.
Power Point
Option
Download
Accessories programs
39. Sometimes referred to as run around - word wrap is an ability found in most text editing programs that allows any text that reaches the end of the far right edge of the window to wrap automatically to the next line without requiring the user to press
Internet
Page Numbering
Word wrap
Timing
40. Turns computer on and off
Column
Analog
Format
On/Off
41. The study and designing of products to help reduce the stress & make a product more comfortable to the user helping increase the users' productivity
Clipart
Secondary storage device
Ergonomics
Hard drive
42. The rectangular area - above the worksheet window - that displays a cell's contents - including numbers - text - and formulas - when you click a cell. You can use the formula bar to enter and edit data in the active cell.
Save As
Relationships
Formula bar
Update
43. A Microsoft program
GUI
MS Word
Task-switching
Active cell
44. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Spreadsheet
Joystick
Grammar Checker
Refresh
45. Electronic hardware device or software capable of performing mathematical calculations
Background
Calculator
Icon
CA TV
46. In general - the term query is commonly used to describe a question or request that is made by a user or another computer or device
Chart
Promote
Query
Upload
47. A file or view of data formatted in a way that allows the user to see a large amount of data quickly from documents or a database.
Microphone
Reports
Transition
Paint
48. Hypertext Markup Language. A standard of text markup conventions used for documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers interpret the codes to give the text structure and formatting (such as bold - blue - or italic).
HTML
Inbox
Copyright
Start-up button
49. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
CA TV
Hard copy
Floppy drive
Background
50. Data laid out in a horizontal line in a table or spreadsheet
Journal
Virus
Upload
Row