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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.
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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. 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
Character
Edit
Upload
Cut - Copy & Paste
2. A minor show offered in addition to a main exhibition
Auto-number
CA TV
Clipart
Slide show
3. Maximum
Filter
Reports
Note Pad
MAX
4. A difference in the text
Toggles
MS-DOS
Prompt
Change
5. Completes the text for you
Browser
Thesaurus
Auto Text
WYSIWYG
6. This is a picture or an image.
Modified Block Letter Format
Graphics
Close box
Key tape
7. A collection of similar information stored in a file - such as a database of addresses. This information may be created and stored in a database management system (DBMS).
Block Letter Format
Database
Query
Brochures
8. Styles of text already in MS
Analyze
Browser
Format
Built-in Styles
9. Programs currently being worked on
Active programs
Calculate
ISP
Store
10. This is all the instructions for the computer or a program designed to do different things. Examples are: Microsoft Word - Internet Explorer - and Windows.
Modified Block Letter Format
Menu toolbar
Software
Formatting toolbar
11. A tool used to make an indication that text or other object has been selected with the mouse or keyboard.
Task panes
Character
Highlighting Tool
WordPad
12. Where you send something in the past tense
Sent
Modified Block Letter Format
Relationships
Punched cards
13. Term used to describe the process of saving information to be used later
Tasks
Surf
Active programs
Store
14. Term used to describe the location or folder that e-mail is received on the computer or a computer program
Cut - Copy & Paste
Symbol
Inbox
Annotations
15. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
AVERAGE
Blog
Monitor
Personal Letter Format
16. This is the process where you copy something from another computer or the Internet - and save it on your computer.
Download
Document
Menu toolbar
Formatting toolbar
17. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
Record
Word Art
Default
OS
18. Used to advertise different programs or hotels etc.
Highlighting Tool
Brochures
Chart
Blog
19. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
Forward
Operating system
URL
Alignment
20. Medium
Input device
MEDIAN
Objects box/pane
Jump/Flash drive
21. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
WWW
WordPad
Align
Ready
22. Internet Service Provider
Promote
ISP
Scanner
Workbook
23. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
Number
Store
Tables
Worksheet
24. A name - e-mail - or other personal information that enables other users to get a hold of someone
Contacts
Attach
Image
Computer output
25. 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.
Form
Formatting toolbar
Default # worksheets
Field
26. The worksheet currently being worked on or viewed
Outlook
Typeface & Font
Image
Active worksheet
27. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Insert & Delete
Size & Style
OS
MEDIAN
28. A connection that is established using a modem
Handouts
Dial-up
Typeface & Font
Hyperlink
29. To move the visual portions of a screen up - down - left - or right - in order to see additional information on the monitor.
Chart
Look-up menu
Scrolling
Output
30. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Secondary storage device
Insert & Delete
Upload
index.html
31. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
E-mail
UNIVAC
Chart
Note Pad
32. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Calendar
UNIVAC
Flyers
Fonts
33. Recording how long something takes
Chart
Timing
Display/Monitor
AutoCorrect
34. 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.
Microphone
Icon
Print dialog box
Format
35. 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.
Alignment
Software
spacing
Personal Letter Format
36. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
WWW
Spreadsheet
Screensaver
Document
37. A location where deleted files are temporarily stored on Apple Macintosh computers
Filter
Upload
Trashcan
Auto-number
38. The change from one thing to another
Output
Transition
MS Word
Background
39. Magnetic tape drive capable of moving the tape through the tapes drive's read
Option
Virus
Column
Key tape
40. A menu where you can search for anything that you need
MAX
Look-up menu
Sort
spacing
41. A portion of a computer display used in a graphical interface that enables users to select commands by pointing to illustrations or symbols with a mouse. 'Windows' is also the name Microsoft adopted for its popular operating system.
Windows
Contacts
Floppy drive
Forward
42. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Auto-number
Toggle Switches
Dial-up
Organize
43. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Application software
Hard copy
Calendar
Line-spacing
44. 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.
Page Setup dialog box
Hyperlink
Program
Internet
45. A menu window that opens vertically on-screen to display context-related options. Also called pop-up menu or pull-down menu.
Memos
MIN
Image
Menu - drop-down
46. Devices used to store massive amounts of information so that it can be readily retrieved. Devices include RAIDs - CD-ROMs - DVDs
Storage
Analog
Grammar Checker
SAVE
47. Text or an image that is connected by hypertext coding to a different location. By selecting the text or image with a mouse - the computer 'jumps to' (or displays) the linked text.
MS Windows
Software
Brochures
Hyperlink
48. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Exported
Sort
Save As
Copyright
49. Electronic signal that is sent as binary digits
Digital
Block Letter Format
Input device
Store
50. 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.
Active cell
CPU
Formula bar
EXIT