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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. Programs currently being worked on
Compact Disk
Active programs
Cards
CTRL+ALT+DEL
2. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
Size & Style
Spam
Storage
SUM
3. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
Background
Outline View
Worksheet tab
Ready
4. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
Attach
Memos
Default
Modified Block Letter Format
5. Term used in Microsoft Excel to describe a spreadsheet file
Input device
Field
MS Windows
Workbook
6. Electronic signal that is sent as binary digits
Virus
Digital
Toggles
Notepad
7. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Paint
Grammar Checker
CPU
Start-up button
8. Document commonly written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that is accessible through the Internet or through another network using a browser
Personal Letter Format
Exported
Web page
Icon
9. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Placeholder
Compact Disk
Tables
Font dialog box
10. 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
HTTP
Formula
UNIVAC
Query
11. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Send
WWW
Highlighting Tool
Virus
12. Where the text is automatically entered
AutoContent
Trashcan
Forward
MS Windows
13. This is where all the letters - numbers - and other buttons are located. When you type on it - the symbols appear on the monitor.
Keyboard
Title bar
Placeholder
Power Point
14. A named sub-window of a frames page. This may be scrollable and resizable and may have a border or outline.
Abacus
Frame
Demote
Word Art
15. A difference in the text
MS Windows
Merged
Joystick
Change
16. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Inbox
Imported
Auto-number
Outbox
17. A term used to describe the process of searching for - locating and returning data.
Print
MS Word
Retrieve
Form
18. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Change
Brochures
Organize
Field
19. Styles of text already in MS
Objects box/pane
Accessories programs
Built-in Styles
MS Windows
20. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Grammar Checker
Keyboard
Secondary storage device
Active worksheet
21. Side text that could be important later
Notes
Spam
spacing
Menu toolbar
22. Devices used to store massive amounts of information so that it can be readily retrieved. Devices include RAIDs - CD-ROMs - DVDs
Wizard
Start-up button
Junk
Storage
23. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Command
Refresh
Change
User name
24. A set of data-entry fields on a page processed on a server. The user submits the form by clicking on a button or image - and the form is sent by a form handler.
AutoCorrect
Typeface & Font
Form
Signature block
25. Something that can be accessed
Floppy drive
MAX
OPEN
Flyers
26. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Search & Replace
AutoCorrect
Notes
CA TV
27. Term used to describe a software program that is intentionally installed on the computer by a user to monitor or spy on what other users of the same computer are doing.
Retrieve
Spy-ware
OPEN
Signature block
28. Data that goes into a computer device.
Design
Input
Notes
WordPad
29. A term used to describe a software program or section of a program that is running in a multitasking environment.
Analog
Tasks
Font dialog box
Send
30. To workout a mathematical equation
Notepad
MS Windows Tour
Integrated circuits
Calculate
31. Justify
Refresh
Application software
Block Letter Format
Alignment
32. 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
Mouse
Key tape
AVERAGE
33. A little device that you move with your hand which then moves the cursor on the screen.
UNIVAC
Mouse
Calculator
Receive
34. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Deleted items
Outlook
Toggle Switches
Reports
35. Used to advertise different programs or hotels etc.
Floppy drive
Abacus
Brochures
Notepad
36. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0
Page Setup dialog box
Enter
Microphone
Number
37. A row in a table
Record
Worksheet tab
Store
Contacts
38. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Active cell
Close box
Browser
Layout
39. 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.
Column
MS Windows Tour
SAVE
Row
40. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Task-switching
Paragraph dialog box
OS
Power Point
41. Hypertext Transfer Protocol. A common system used to request and send HTML documents on the World Wide Web. It is the first portion of all URL addresses on the World Wide Web (e.g. - http://www.whitehouse.gov).
MAX
HTTP
Currency
Start-up button
42. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Insert & Delete
Font dialog box
Navigate
Word wrap
43. A box that helps with the overall process of connecting and preparing a software program - hardware device or computer to function properly.
Setup dialog box
Bulleted list
Handouts
Input device
44. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Copyright
Wizard
Menu - drop-down
Graphics
45. A type of edging around a document
Grammar Checker
Power Point
Borders
Gridlines
46. Central Processing Unit. The brain of the computer.
Insert & Delete
Tasks
Align
CPU
47. A collection of similar information stored in a file - such as a database of addresses. This information may be created and stored in a database management system (DBMS).
Database
Notes
Web page
Calculator
48. 3
Keyboard
Joystick
Default # worksheets
Hard copy
49. A key that - when pressed in conjunction with another key - creates a special effect.
Indicators
Look-up menu
Option
MS Windows Tour
50. 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.
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Jump/Flash drive
Built-in Styles
Menu toolbar