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Computer Literacy
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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. A little device that you move with your hand which then moves the cursor on the screen.
Power Point
Calendar
Change
Mouse
2. A character displayed on the screen to prompt the user to take some action. The most common prompt is the 'C prompt' in which the computer hard drive or 'C' requests directions on what the computer should perform next.
spacing
Align
Prompt
Toolbar
3. The first calculation device
Abacus
Auto-number
Title bar
Virus
4. In mathematics - a sum is the total amount obtained from adding numbers
Refresh
Cell address/cell reference
Sent
SUM
5. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
Punched cards
Symbol
Gridlines
CLOSE
6. Term used to describe the process of switching back and forth between settings or between programs
Hard drive
Task-switching
Toggles
Browser
7. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Indicators
Alignment
Copyright
Integrated circuits
8. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Exported
EXIT
Calculate
Borders
9. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
Insert/Type over
Organize
Journal
Active worksheet
10. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
WWW
Note Pad
User name
Form
11. Exploring the Internet.
Surf
Virus
Caps lock
Close box
12. A circuit board that you can install in a slot inside the computer to expand the computer's memory or give it the means to communicate with a peripheral device.
Screen
Highlighting Tool
Cards
Recycle bin
13. Viewing portion of a display
Sent
Screen
Outlook
Typeface & Font
14. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
Prompt
GUI
Background
Word Art
15. A tool box that allows you to change the font of text
Operating system
Font dialog box
Promote
Grammar Checker
16. A minor show offered in addition to a main exhibition
Gateway
Icon
Align
Slide show
17. Data that goes into a computer device.
Signature block
Receive
User name
Input
18. A connection that is established using a modem
Scrolling
Dial-up
Borders
ISP
19. Recording how long something takes
Notepad
Publish
Timing
Objects box/pane
20. A term used to describe a software program or section of a program that is running in a multitasking environment.
Tasks
Active programs
GUI
OPEN
21. Microsoft WordPad is a free rich text editor included with Microsoft Windows 95 - 98 - ME - NT - 2000 - XP - Vista - 7 - and future releases of Microsoft Windows.
Screen
Gateway
Chart
WordPad
22. An image usually displayed at the top of a page in a Web site - containing text and design elements (often to identify the site).
Auto-number
.doc
Function
Banners
23. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Apple/Mac
Animate
Computer output
Default
24. Alternatively referred to as ANSI art - text art - or word art - ASCII art is the process of forming pictures or art out of the characters available in the ASCII chart
Exported
Reports
Word Art
Surf
25. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
Chart
Store
Organize
Worksheet
26. Something that can be accessed
OPEN
Font dialog box
Cell address/cell reference
Spell Checker
27. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Organize
URL
On/Off
Worksheet tab
28. A location where deleted files are temporarily stored on Apple Macintosh computers
Cards
Windows
Word Art
Trashcan
29. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Outline View
Compact Disk
Function
Currency
30. Any character that is not considered a number or symbol
Start-up button
Letters
Menu toolbar
Paragraph dialog box
31. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Create
Upload
Scrolling
Toggle Switches
32. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Indicators
Task panes
Placeholder
Ready
33. This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files - like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Browser
Number
Default
Objects box/pane
34. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Tables
Sent
MS Windows Tour
Hard copy
35. Turns computer on and off
On/Off
Digital
Slide show
Update
36. A named sub-window of a frames page. This may be scrollable and resizable and may have a border or outline.
Query
Frame
Insert & Delete
Upload
37. A design that defines the overall look of characters
MS Windows
Forward
Typeface & Font
E-mail
38. A key that - when pressed in conjunction with another key - creates a special effect.
Scroll Bars
Update
Option
Calendar
39. Maximum
Undo
Modem
Exported
MAX
40. Copy: A command that copies the selected information and places it on the clipboard.cut: To remove text or graphics from a document by using the Cut command. The most recent 'clipping' is stored on the Clipboard of the computer so that you can paste
SUM
Cut - Copy & Paste
Print dialog box
HTTP
41. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Query
Close box
Timing
Banners
42. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Memos
Navigate
UNIVAC
CPU
43. In general a range refers to a series of value between two other values
Range
Output
WWW
Scroll Bars
44. 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
Mouse
Reports
Notepad
45. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
OS
Jump/Flash drive
CA TV
Scroll Bars
46. A picture or graphics file that can be inserted on a web page and displayed in a browser.
Image
Close box
On/Off
Menu toolbar
47. The horizontal strip across the top of an application's window. Each word on the strip has a context sensitive drop-down menu containing features and actions that are available for the application in use.
Menu toolbar
Alignment
Print dialog box
Forward
48. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Margins
Notepad
Query
HTML
49. Side text that could be important later
.doc
Notes
Desktop
Slide show
50. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
Cut - Copy & Paste
Relationships
Exported
Borders