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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. Term used in Microsoft Excel to describe a spreadsheet file
Status bar
Form
Scanner
Workbook
2. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Hyperlink
Jump/Flash drive
Refresh
Option
3. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information
Output
Browser
Notepad
Start-up button
4. Receptacle for unwanted items
Recycle bin
Look-up menu
Paint
Create
5. A row in a table
Flyers
Record
Sub-menu
CLOSE
6. Digital Subscriber Line. A method of connecting to the Internet via a phone line. A DSL connection uses copper telephone lines but is able to relay data at much higher speeds than modems and does not interfere with telephone use.
Input
Create
Page Numbering
DSL
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.
WYSIWYG
Compact Disk
Exported
Gridlines
8. Microsoft software presentation program that allows a user to create a slide show of important notes that can be easily shown and moved through during a presentation
Power Point
Ad-ware
Banners
Hyperlink
9. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
ISP
Software
Task-switching
Modified Block Letter Format
10. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
GUI
Save As
Punched cards
Analyze
11. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
Icon
Application software
Output device
Default # worksheets
12. Maximum
Software
MAX
Personal Letter Format
Desktop
13. The horizontal strip across the top of an application's window. Each word on the strip has a context sensitive drop-down menu containing features and actions that are available for the application in use.
Menu toolbar
Page Numbering
Monitor
Joystick
14. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
Forward
CA TV
AVERAGE
Save As
15. A term used to describe the process of organizing data in a particular order allowing for information to be found easier
Pointer
Outbox
Gateway
Sort
16. A function similar to the save function that allows a user to specify the name and location of where he or she wishes to save the file before saving it.
Hard drive
Design
Save As
Timing
17. Where you send something in the past tense
Sent
Recycle bin
Task-switching
Word wrap
18. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
WWW
Browser
Personal Letter Format
Notes
19. The type of money used in a certain place
Attach
Receive
Currency
Default
20. 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
Operating system
Alignment
Ready
Character
21. Completes the text for you
Monitor
Imported
Auto Text
Power Point
22. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Personal Letter Format
Flyers
Pointer
Publish
23. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Search & Replace
Column
Ad-ware
Upload
24. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0
Print
Active worksheet
Number
Print dialog box
25. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
WordPad
Field
Chart
MS Windows Tour
26. Hardware peripheral that allows computer users to input audio into computers
Microphone
WYSIWYG
.xls
Auto-number
27. Allows equipment to handle information that continuously changes
Letters
Objects box/pane
On/Off
Analog
28. Command or option used to close a program or file.
Option
MIN
Abacus
EXIT
29. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
Virus
Formula bar
Recycle bin
Jump/Flash drive
30. A series of keys to unlock a screen
Note Pad
Web site
Output
CTRL+ALT+DEL
31. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Document
Address
Notepad
Navigate
32. 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).
Tables
HTTP
Toggles
Template
33. More than one or something that can be multiplied
Multiple
spacing
Borders
Timing
34. Term used to describe the process of switching back and forth between settings or between programs
Pointer
Password
Toggles
Exported
35. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Receive
Copyright
Sub-menu
Alignment
36. Exploring the Internet.
Active programs
Print dialog box
Surf
Memos
37. A space reserved for a person's signature
Bridge
Download
Signature block
Query
38. Cable TV
Active cell
Merged
Cards
CA TV
39. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Modem
Monitor
Receive
Field
40. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
Screen
OS
Calculator
Output device
41. A name - e-mail - or other personal information that enables other users to get a hold of someone
Contacts
MS Windows Tour
Hard drive
UNIVAC
42. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Copyright
Setup dialog box
Navigate
HTML
43. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Application software
Undo
Upload
Spy-ware
44. E-mail software program by Microsoft that enables users to easily send and receive e-mail on their computer
Cell address/cell reference
Outlook
Handouts
Fonts
45. Minimum
Brochures
Close box
MIN
Spam
46. A term used to describe the process of searching for - locating and returning data.
Dial-up
GUI
Retrieve
Indicators
47. Internet Service Provider
GUI
Text box
ISP
Objects box/pane
48. Horizontal lines within a chart that make the chart easier to read.
EXIT
Gridlines
Refresh
Grammar Checker
49. This is a picture or an image.
Browser
Graphics
Handouts
Close box
50. 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.
Pointer
Note Pad
Blog
Analog