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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. Justify
HTML
Cut - Copy & Paste
Alignment
Worksheet
2. 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.
Mouse
Form
Date/Time control
URL
3. Add - delete or change the contents of a cell or worksheet or file.
Soft copy
Exported
Edit
Scanner
4. Software that allows one to calculate numbers in a format that is similar to pages in a conventional ledger.
Reports
Joystick
Spreadsheet
MAX
5. Alternatively referred to as an account name - login ID - and user ID - a username or user name is a name given to a user on a computer or computer network.
Surf
User name
GUI
Range
6. Another name for the hard disc that stores information information in a computer.
Wizard
Receive
Hard drive
Deleted items
7. 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.
Layout
Outline View
Active cell
Fonts
8. 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
Promote
Margins
Indicators
9. 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
Web site
Handouts
Dial-up
Store
10. Data that come out of a computer device. For example - information displayed on the monitor - sound from the speakers - and information printed to paper.
Auto Text
Font dialog box
Save As
Output
11. A connection that is established using a modem
Dial-up
Copyright
Modified Block Letter Format
Caps lock
12. A software tool included with some word processors that provides synonyms for selected words on command
Paragraph dialog box
Thesaurus
Toolbar
MS Word
13. To workout a mathematical equation
Calculate
Personal Letter Format
Function
Text box
14. Data laid out in a horizontal line in a table or spreadsheet
Spy-ware
Slide show
Icon
Row
15. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0
Number
Calculate
Windows
AutoCorrect
16. An operating environment created by MS provide an interface known as GUI for IBM compatible computers
Toggles
MS Windows
Bulleted list
Attach
17. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Line-spacing
Copyright
Personal Letter Format
Calendar
18. A weblog or blog - is a listing of text - images - or other objects that are arranged in a chronological order that first started appearing in 1998.
Insert/Type over
Sub-menu
Currency
Blog
19. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Browser
Row
Modem
SAVE
20. Term used in Microsoft Excel to describe a spreadsheet file
CA TV
Field
Workbook
Calculator
21. Where you advertise something
Imported
MIN
Ergonomics
Promote
22. 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
MIN
Exported
AutoContent
Query
23. Hardware peripheral that allows computer users to input audio into computers
Operating system
Save As
Microphone
Annotations
24. 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.
Store
Status bar
Column
Ready
25. Horizontal lines within a chart that make the chart easier to read.
Junk
Dial-up
Gridlines
Scroll Bars
26. Where you get something
Ad-ware
Receive
Software
URL
27. An item that has been disposed of
Deleted items
Forward
Apple/Mac
MIN
28. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Note Pad
Promote
Soft copy
Compact Disk
29. Turns computer on and off
On/Off
Column
spacing
HTML
30. Document commonly written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that is accessible through the Internet or through another network using a browser
Update
Web page
Margins
index.html
31. 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
Spell Checker
Ergonomics
Integrated circuits
Operating system
32. Computer software that performs a task or set of tasks - such as word processing or drawing. Applications are also referred to as programs.
Junk
Bulleted list
Hard drive
Application software
33. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Toggle Switches
Input
Demote
Formula bar
34. A key on the numeric keypad that confirms a choice or tells a program you're ready to proceed. In most cases - the Return key also serves this function. The ____ button is used to confirm an entry into an active cell. (in spreadsheet applications)
Timing
Mouse
Gridlines
Enter
35. The physical division of space on a disk into sections--where information can be stored. A disk's format is established as part of the initialization process.
Format
UNIVAC
Bulleted list
Junk
36. 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.
Drag & Drop
Filter
Notes
Margins
37. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Navigate
Flyers
Objects box/pane
Mouse
38. The number keys on the right side of the keyboard that are laid out like the keys on an adding machine. In most cases - you can use these keys interchangeably with the number keys on the top row of the keyboard. Some programs use the numeric keypad a
Num lock
Headers & Footers
Print
Hardware
39. Alternatively referred to as state - status is a term used to describe the current situation or mode the device or user currently is in.
Operating system
GUI
Transition
Status bar
40. 3
Default # worksheets
Background
Computer output
MS Windows Tour
41. To combine two or more files into a single file.
Highlighting Tool
Active worksheet
Merged
Program
42. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Recycle bin
Bulleted list
Task-switching
Built-in Styles
43. Pages that have instructions - questions - etc. that need to be numbered
Toggle Switches
Page Numbering
Store
Joystick
44. 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)
Cell address/cell reference
Layout
Reports
.xls
45. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
index.html
Exported
Letters
Typeface & Font
46. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
SUM
Organize
Compact Disk
Promote
47. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Transition
MS Windows Tour
HTTP
Design
48. A minor show offered in addition to a main exhibition
Transition
Web site
.doc
Slide show
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.
Imported
Typeface & Font
Letters
Formula bar
50. 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
Gridlines
Navigate
WordPad