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Computer Literacy
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Study First
Subjects
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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 feature that steps the user through the installation or setup of a software program or hardware device
Wizard
Option
OPEN
Animate
2. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
Windows
Imported
Spam
Integrated circuits
3. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Retrieve
Navigate
Toggles
Refresh
4. A Microsoft program
Icon
Contacts
MS Word
Line-spacing
5. Minimum
CTRL+ALT+DEL
.xls
MIN
Cut - Copy & Paste
6. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
Output device
Auto-number
Abacus
Default
7. Term used to describe the location or folder where e-mail is stored before being sent
Outbox
Floppy drive
Cards
Calculator
8. This is a secret code to protect your data and can keep others from accessing your computer.
Password
Indicators
Ad-ware
Icon
9. 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
Image
Computer output
10. Allows you to collapse the documents to see only the main headings or to expand a document to see all the main headings and text.
Print dialog box
Outline View
MAX
Prompt
11. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Personal Letter Format
Prompt
OPEN
Menu toolbar
12. An image usually displayed at the top of a page in a Web site - containing text and design elements (often to identify the site).
Banners
Filter
Hyperlink
Send
13. This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files - like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Typeface & Font
Browser
Document
Headers & Footers
14. A row in a table
CPU
Align
HTTP
Record
15. Medium
Merged
Built-in Styles
MEDIAN
Image
16. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
MS-DOS
AutoContent
WYSIWYG
Note Pad
17. The process of launching the web page into the public for use.
Windows
Publish
Application software
Abacus
18. Electronic hardware device or software capable of performing mathematical calculations
Status bar
Computer output
Microphone
Calculator
19. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
Tables
MS Windows
Insert & Delete
Promote
20. Data that come out of a computer device. For example - information displayed on the monitor - sound from the speakers - and information printed to paper.
Letters
Output
Attach
CA TV
21. To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis
Apple/Mac
Analyze
Merged
Screensaver
22. A general term used to describe what you see on your screen when you're using a computer. This may include video effects - tables - letters - or numbers.
Multiple
AVERAGE
Display/Monitor
Spy-ware
23. In general a range refers to a series of value between two other values
Range
Retrieve
Borders
Web page
24. A tool box that allows you to change the font of text
Spreadsheet
Screensaver
Worksheet
Font dialog box
25. This is where all the letters - numbers - and other buttons are located. When you type on it - the symbols appear on the monitor.
Keyboard
Insert/Type over
Workbook
Merged
26. 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.
WordPad
Icon
Sent
Download
27. A file that has been created with an overall layout and format to be used for a group of documents or a generic document.
Scanner
Template
Analyze
HTML
28. A box that helps you edit the parameters defined by the user that help determine how a printed page will appear.
Page Setup dialog box
DSL
Attach
Field
29. Another name for the hard disc that stores information information in a computer.
Input
Hard drive
Memos
Toggle Switches
30. Styles of text already in MS
MEDIAN
Built-in Styles
Send
GUI
31. A difference in the text
Monitor
Change
Worksheet
Outline View
32. Any character that is not considered a number or symbol
UNIVAC
File name
Letters
Formula bar
33. Document commonly written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that is accessible through the Internet or through another network using a browser
Objects box/pane
Web page
Punched cards
Navigate
34. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Close box
Hyperlink
Grammar Checker
Column
35. This is a picture or an image.
Graphics
Web site
Layout
Menu - drop-down
36. The cell in which you are working - indicated by the current location of the cell pointer.
Block Letter Format
Active cell
Record
Annotations
37. 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
Secondary storage device
Query
OS
Calendar
38. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Document
CA TV
Command
Display/Monitor
39. Programs currently being worked on
Active cell
Active programs
Flyers
Graphics
40. Devices used to store massive amounts of information so that it can be readily retrieved. Devices include RAIDs - CD-ROMs - DVDs
Ergonomics
WordPad
Address
Storage
41. Light or led that indicates the status of a hardware device
Worksheet tab
Hyperlink
Placeholder
Indicators
42. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Hardware
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Print
Junk
43. A key that can lock into place so that letters you type will come out capitalized. Caps Lock doesn't affect non-alphabetic keys (such as punctuation and symbols). To access these - you must still press the Shift key (on either side of the key board).
Hard copy
Calendar
Scroll Bars
Caps lock
44. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Digital
Query
Formula bar
Flyers
45. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Web site
SAVE
Row
Send
46. A website - or web site - is a central location of various web pages that are all related and can be accessed by visiting the home page using a browser
Borders
Web site
Trashcan
Sub-menu
47. 1) text-based applications - a way of designing the number of characters that fit on the computer's display. A column is one character wide. 2) In spread sheet applications - a column is a vertical arrangement of cells.
Prompt
Column
Scanner
Web site
48. Alternatively referred to as state - status is a term used to describe the current situation or mode the device or user currently is in.
On/Off
Toggle Switches
Active worksheet
Status bar
49. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Template
Edit
Monitor
Floppy drive
50. A precise series of instructions written in a computer language that tells the computer what to do and how to do it. Programs are also called 'software' or 'applications.'
Toolbar
Font dialog box
Word Art
Program