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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 FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Bridge
Demote
Notes
Send
2. 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.
Output
Outbox
Column
Smart Tag
3. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Auto-number
GUI
Headers & Footers
Deleted items
4. The actual web page on the domain
Edit
Menu toolbar
index.html
Notepad
5. Another name for the hard disc that stores information information in a computer.
Storage
Hard drive
Analyze
Upload
6. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
MS-DOS
Retrieve
Virus
Flyers
7. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Undo
Demote
Layout
Junk
8. Where you get something
Soft copy
Recycle bin
Receive
Imported
9. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Personal Letter Format
SUM
Block Letter Format
Formula
10. 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.
Update
Key tape
Blog
Bridge
11. 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.
Display/Monitor
UNIVAC
Floppy drive
Hard drive
12. E-mail software program by Microsoft that enables users to easily send and receive e-mail on their computer
E-mail
Copyright
Abacus
Outlook
13. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Size & Style
DSL
URL
Monitor
14. Sometimes referred to as run around - word wrap is an ability found in most text editing programs that allows any text that reaches the end of the far right edge of the window to wrap automatically to the next line without requiring the user to press
Word wrap
Chart
Virus
MS Word
15. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Forward
Menu toolbar
Calendar
Contacts
16. To workout a mathematical equation
Calculate
File name
Journal
Floppy drive
17. 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.
Recycle bin
Screensaver
Formula bar
Placeholder
18. In general a range refers to a series of value between two other values
Range
Template
Caps lock
Placeholder
19. Term used to describe the location or folder where e-mail is stored before being sent
Ready
Align
Apple/Mac
Outbox
20. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Screensaver
Handouts
Blog
Flyers
21. A feature that steps the user through the installation or setup of a software program or hardware device
Wizard
Start-up button
Headers & Footers
Virus
22. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Worksheet tab
Scrolling
Gateway
Hard copy
23. A peripheral device which allows users to play video games or computer games which demand fast reflexes and decision-making.
Field
Drag & Drop
Caps lock
Joystick
24. Receptacle for unwanted items
Option
Grammar Checker
Recycle bin
Chart
25. The overall appearance of a document - image - text or other medium designed to be more appeasing to the viewer or help locate or identify the medium being looked at
Layout
Spreadsheet
CLOSE
Power Point
26. Term used to describe a menu that is contained within another menu
Contacts
GUI
Sub-menu
Caps lock
27. A computer bridge is a device that connects two local-area networks (LANs) - or two segments of the same LAN.
Margins
Bridge
Banners
Joystick
28. 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.'
Relationships
Program
Blog
Background
29. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Punched cards
Sort
Navigate
Cell address/cell reference
30. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
AVERAGE
Forward
Formatting toolbar
Storage
31. 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.
Formatting toolbar
Size & Style
MS Windows Tour
spacing
32. A tab at the bottom left corner of a worksheet that has the worksheet name and other worksheets in the workbook
Worksheet tab
Password
Letters
Reports
33. Everything to the Left alignment - semi-colon
Digital
Background
Block Letter Format
Copyright
34. Row of boxes - often at the top of an application window that control various functions of the software
Blog
Toolbar
SAVE
Built-in Styles
35. A Microsoft program
Close box
Refresh
MS Word
Analyze
36. Exploring the Internet.
Surf
Exported
Desktop
SAVE
37. A term used to describe a software program or section of a program that is running in a multitasking environment.
Tasks
Transition
Size & Style
Chart
38. Programs currently being worked on
Display/Monitor
Active programs
Floppy drive
Print dialog box
39. The change from one thing to another
Handouts
Align
Store
Transition
40. Any character that is not considered a number or symbol
Letters
Enter
Character
Microphone
41. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Graphics
Hardware
Row
Floppy drive
42. Data laid out in a horizontal line in a table or spreadsheet
Field
Row
Drag & Drop
Internet
43. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Built-in Styles
Modem
Screensaver
Cut - Copy & Paste
44. An early operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Disc Operating System).
MS-DOS
Filter
Menu
Currency
45. The process of transferring information from a computer to a web site (or other remote location on a network). v. To transfer information from a computer to a web site (or other remote location on a network).
Modem
MAX
Upload
Reports
46. 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)
Notepad
Indicators
Cell address/cell reference
AutoCorrect
47. 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).
HTTP
Handouts
Grammar Checker
CA TV
48. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Alignment
Notepad
Create
Bulleted list
49. 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
Deleted items
On/Off
Cut - Copy & Paste
Web site
50. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Command
Bridge
Create
Toggle Switches