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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. 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.
Annotations
WordPad
Output
Prompt
2. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
Flyers
Highlighting Tool
Punched cards
Microphone
3. Creating a new document or folder
Create
ISP
Tasks
Document
4. In mathematics - a sum is the total amount obtained from adding numbers
Keyboard
UNIVAC
SUM
Range
5. 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.
Web page
Publish
Prompt
Outline View
6. A tool that converts an image or a file.
Attach
Sub-menu
Recycle bin
Filter
7. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
HTTP
Tables
Forward
Signature block
8. A box that helps you edit the parameters defined by the user that help determine how a printed page will appear.
Bulleted list
Edit
.xls
Page Setup dialog box
9. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Outbox
Insert & Delete
Typeface & Font
WWW
10. 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
Spy-ware
Word Art
Modem
Apple/Mac
11. Term used to describe the location or folder where e-mail is stored before being sent
Align
Template
Outbox
Workbook
12. Medium
GUI
MEDIAN
.xls
Digital
13. A term used to describe the process of organizing data in a particular order allowing for information to be found easier
Font dialog box
Desktop
Change
Sort
14. Receptacle for unwanted items
Recycle bin
Title bar
Scroll Bars
Deleted items
15. Where you get something
Undo
Receive
Junk
Icon
16. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Size & Style
Junk
Toolbar
Refresh
17. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Navigate
Exported
Mouse
Block Letter Format
18. 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
Publish
Brochures
Ergonomics
19. Term used to describe a menu that is contained within another menu
Promote
Inbox
Sub-menu
Merged
20. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
Letters
Print
WWW
CPU
21. The end of a line of text. You can force a line break by pressing 'Return' - or you can let the application break lines for you. This is a special character that forces a new line on a page without creating a new paragraph.
Line-spacing
Surf
Power Point
Software
22. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Range
Block Letter Format
Refresh
Calendar
23. A picture or graphics file that can be inserted on a web page and displayed in a browser.
UNIVAC
Image
Memos
Merged
24. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Handouts
Hyperlink
Toggle Switches
Insert & Delete
25. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
Deleted items
Secondary storage device
Note Pad
Currency
26. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
Smart Tag
Screensaver
Background
Relationships
27. The process of launching the web page into the public for use.
MEDIAN
Publish
Prompt
Enter
28. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Auto-number
Function
Close box
SAVE
29. A character displayed on the screen to prompt the user to take some action. The most common prompt is the 'C prompt' in which the computer hard drive or 'C' requests directions on what the computer should perform next.
Upload
Prompt
Web site
Send
30. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
Note Pad
Close box
Active programs
Chart
31. 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.
Analog
Screensaver
Relationships
Blog
32. 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.
.xls
Transition
Close box
Format
33. Row of boxes - often at the top of an application window that control various functions of the software
Memos
Alignment
Toolbar
Font dialog box
34. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Update
Multiple
Notepad
Frame
35. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Symbol
Surf
Password
Search & Replace
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.
OS
Block Letter Format
Drag & Drop
Storage
37. 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.
CLOSE
Column
Input
On/Off
38. 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)
MIN
Print dialog box
Enter
Field
39. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord
Jump/Flash drive
Command
Margins
Prompt
40. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
MS Windows
MIN
Outlook
Secondary storage device
41. Justify
Alignment
Active programs
Workbook
Input device
42. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Wizard
Demote
Compact Disk
Fonts
43. In general a range refers to a series of value between two other values
Range
Banners
Tables
Indicators
44. 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
Cut - Copy & Paste
CTRL+ALT+DEL
CA TV
Cards
45. Viewing portion of a display
Screen
Typeface & Font
Apple/Mac
Menu toolbar
46. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Start-up button
Annotations
Character
Toggle Switches
47. Devices used to store massive amounts of information so that it can be readily retrieved. Devices include RAIDs - CD-ROMs - DVDs
Storage
Calculator
Margins
Date/Time control
48. A menu window that opens vertically on-screen to display context-related options. Also called pop-up menu or pull-down menu.
Setup dialog box
Insert & Delete
Relationships
Menu - drop-down
49. A box that allows the process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Database
Print dialog box
Default # worksheets
Upload
50. Central Processing Unit. The brain of the computer.
Banners
SUM
CPU
Imported