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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. Document commonly written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that is accessible through the Internet or through another network using a browser
Sub-menu
Web page
Layout
Borders
2. Medium
MEDIAN
Menu - drop-down
Calculate
Line-spacing
3. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
Journal
Organize
Microphone
Objects box/pane
4. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
Multiple
Input device
Virus
Operating system
5. A command that puts a file away but keeps the program you're in open so that you can continue to work.
Address
Surf
CLOSE
Timing
6. The name you give your file or document before you save it on a disk. This name should help you identify and retrieve this file.
File name
Setup dialog box
Program
URL
7. A menu where you can search for anything that you need
Look-up menu
Slide show
Calendar
Spell Checker
8. Creating a new document or folder
Ergonomics
Receive
Create
Drag & Drop
9. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Document
Banners
Web page
Align
10. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0
Modified Block Letter Format
Typeface & Font
Number
Retrieve
11. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Annotations
Display/Monitor
On/Off
Auto-number
12. An attachment can be a picture - a word document - a movie - a sound file - an excel document - or any other file that requires another program to open it.
Attach
Compact Disk
Analyze
Cell address/cell reference
13. A piece of paper used to advertise an event - company - etc.
Word wrap
Smart Tag
Page Numbering
Handouts
14. Documents used to remind the user of an event or occasion
Joystick
MS Word
Sub-menu
Memos
15. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Task-switching
On/Off
Workbook
Undo
16. 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.
Floppy drive
spacing
URL
WWW
17. The address of documents and resources on the internet.
WWW
Menu toolbar
Grammar Checker
URL
18. An early operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Disc Operating System).
Clipart
MS-DOS
Save As
Storage
19. Where you send something in the past tense
Workbook
Calculate
Cards
Sent
20. 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.
Close box
EXIT
Web page
Display/Monitor
21. Where you get something
Receive
Letters
Symbol
HTTP
22. A word or character that causes the computer to do something. A command is a request or directions given to a computer.
Format
MIN
Page Setup dialog box
Command
23. Many computers that are connected like a web so you can see what other computer operators show you and you can show them things as well.
Internet
Annotations
Num lock
Input device
24. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Notepad
Caps lock
Pointer
Forward
25. 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.'
Jump/Flash drive
Program
Animate
Column
26. When referring to a network - a gateway is an address used as an entry point into another network
Look-up menu
Gateway
Surf
Address
27. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Analyze
Gateway
Size & Style
Animate
28. To workout a mathematical equation
OPEN
Store
Calculate
Scroll Bars
29. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information
Worksheet tab
Smart Tag
Start-up button
Compact Disk
30. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Function
Query
Placeholder
Compact Disk
31. The type and how big the text or object is
Navigate
SUM
Size & Style
Menu
32. Graphical User Interface. A system that simplifies selecting computer commands by enabling the user to point to symbols or illustrations (called icons) on the computer screen with a mouse.
GUI
Send
Default # worksheets
Template
33. Allows equipment to handle information that continuously changes
Analog
Hardware
Tasks
Hard drive
34. Justify
Modified Block Letter Format
Alignment
File name
Cut - Copy & Paste
35. A tool that converts an image or a file.
Analyze
Filter
Toggles
Display/Monitor
36. 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).
Caps lock
Analyze
Toggle Switches
Workbook
37. Universal Automatic Computer the UNIVAC is an electrical computer containing thousands of vacuum tubes that utilizes punch cards and switches for inputting data and punch cards for outputting and storing data.
UNIVAC
Symbol
Banners
Block Letter Format
38. Space separating text or other elements from the edge of the paper commonly adjusted through the page setup.
Margins
Setup dialog box
Recycle bin
Active worksheet
39. E-mail software program by Microsoft that enables users to easily send and receive e-mail on their computer
Outlook
Calculate
Fonts
AVERAGE
40. The change from one thing to another
Built-in Styles
Apple/Mac
Transition
Date/Time control
41. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
Note Pad
Worksheet tab
WWW
Setup dialog box
42. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Hyperlink
Close box
Jump/Flash drive
Memos
43. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
Operating system
ISP
Prompt
Default
44. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Refresh
Default
Flyers
Browser
45. 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).
Update
URL
Apple/Mac
HTTP
46. A file that has been created with an overall layout and format to be used for a group of documents or a generic document.
Thesaurus
Template
Surf
Relationships
47. Horizontal lines within a chart that make the chart easier to read.
Cut - Copy & Paste
SUM
Gridlines
Frame
48. A difference in the text
Signature block
Gridlines
Banners
Change
49. Short for document
Organize
.doc
SAVE
Font dialog box
50. The first calculation device
Abacus
CA TV
Headers & Footers
Internet