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Computer Literacy
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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 connection that is established using a modem
Surf
Software
Refresh
Dial-up
2. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Surf
Paint
Scrolling
Personal Letter Format
3. A tool used to make an indication that text or other object has been selected with the mouse or keyboard.
Analyze
Highlighting Tool
Document
AutoCorrect
4. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Default # worksheets
Function
Toolbar
Web site
5. 3
Default # worksheets
Filter
Multiple
Page Numbering
6. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Junk
Task-switching
E-mail
Attach
7. What You See Is What You Get. When using most word processors - page layout programs (See desktop publishing) - and web page design programs - words and images will be displayed on the monitor as they will look on the printed page or web page.
URL
Apple/Mac
UNIVAC
WYSIWYG
8. Documents used to remind the user of an event or occasion
Hard copy
Memos
Promote
Block Letter Format
9. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Print
index.html
Headers & Footers
MS Word
10. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
Background
GUI
Publish
Headers & Footers
11. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Active worksheet
Design
HTTP
Create
12. Add - delete or change the contents of a cell or worksheet or file.
Edit
Active programs
Download
Cards
13. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Form
Notepad
Clipart
CLOSE
14. An operating environment created by MS provide an interface known as GUI for IBM compatible computers
Calendar
MS Windows
Output
Hard copy
15. A Microsoft program
Typeface & Font
GUI
MS Word
Sort
16. Term used to describe the location or folder where e-mail is stored before being sent
MEDIAN
Outbox
Junk
Output
17. Term used to describe the process of saving information to be used later
Store
Title bar
MEDIAN
AutoContent
18. ...
Merged
Workbook
Display/Monitor
Smart Tag
19. Completes the text for you
Output device
Auto Text
Field
Spell Checker
20. The default document name in Excel
Row
Integrated circuits
Scroll Bars
.xls
21. 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
Modem
MS-DOS
Undo
Cut - Copy & Paste
22. The study and designing of products to help reduce the stress & make a product more comfortable to the user helping increase the users' productivity
Ergonomics
Signature block
Menu - drop-down
MAX
23. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Pointer
Upload
HTML
Smart Tag
24. A menu where you can search for anything that you need
Software
Form
Look-up menu
Punched cards
25. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
Web page
CLOSE
Output device
Database
26. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Document
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Navigate
CA TV
27. Sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes.
Fonts
Close box
Handouts
Hardware
28. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Keyboard
Change
Dial-up
Personal Letter Format
29. Short for document
Operating system
Pointer
.doc
Menu
30. Alternatively referred to as state - status is a term used to describe the current situation or mode the device or user currently is in.
Auto-number
Status bar
Spam
Formula
31. A vertical or horizontal bar commonly located on the far right or bottom of a window that allows a user to move the window viewing area up - down - left - or right.
Mouse
Recycle bin
Scroll Bars
Frame
32. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Fonts
Title bar
Print dialog box
Auto-number
33. A letter - number or other symbol.
Character
Slide show
URL
Template
34. A row in a table
Input device
Record
Abacus
Scanner
35. Recording how long something takes
Timing
Fonts
Ready
Browser
36. Bar located along the top of a window or a dialog box that displays the name of the window or software program being used.
Toggles
Spreadsheet
Browser
Title bar
37. A named sub-window of a frames page. This may be scrollable and resizable and may have a border or outline.
Ad-ware
Drag & Drop
Desktop
Frame
38. Term used in Microsoft Excel to describe a spreadsheet file
Hardware
Highlighting Tool
Objects box/pane
Workbook
39. Electronic signal that is sent as binary digits
Active cell
Image
Digital
Spam
40. Allows equipment to handle information that continuously changes
Input
Worksheet
Analog
Tasks
41. Everything to the left except the date - closing - signature - typed name and senders address are to the middle semi-colon
Modified Block Letter Format
Drag & Drop
Integrated circuits
Update
42. Devices used to store massive amounts of information so that it can be readily retrieved. Devices include RAIDs - CD-ROMs - DVDs
Prompt
Storage
Demote
Layout
43. 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.
Spy-ware
Trashcan
Sent
Document
44. Hardware peripheral that allows computer users to input audio into computers
OPEN
Microphone
Punched cards
Brochures
45. 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
Compact Disk
Timing
Word Art
Spy-ware
46. Something that can be accessed
Reports
OPEN
Grammar Checker
Page Setup dialog box
47. A type of edging around a document
Secondary storage device
Send
Save As
Borders
48. Used to advertise different programs or hotels etc.
.doc
Workbook
Page Setup dialog box
Brochures
49. 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.
Formula bar
Function
Currency
Spell Checker
50. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0
Slide show
Retrieve
Flyers
Number