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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. A paragraph style that creates a single list element - usually indicated by a 'bullet' character. This is also known as an 'unordered list.'
Bulleted list
Keyboard
Animate
Retrieve
2. Sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes.
Icon
Placeholder
Spam
Fonts
3. Short for document
Reports
.doc
Display/Monitor
Scroll Bars
4. Maximum
OPEN
Personal Letter Format
Formula
MAX
5. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Close box
Cut - Copy & Paste
Forward
MIN
6. A space reserved for a person's signature
URL
Column
MIN
Signature block
7. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Compact Disk
EXIT
Calculator
Application software
8. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Brochures
Navigate
Monitor
Store
9. Cable TV
CA TV
Worksheet
Merged
Search & Replace
10. A menu window that opens vertically on-screen to display context-related options. Also called pop-up menu or pull-down menu.
Menu - drop-down
Relationships
Calendar
Placeholder
11. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Highlighting Tool
Digital
Design
Modem
12. A picture or graphics file that can be inserted on a web page and displayed in a browser.
Built-in Styles
Command
Clipart
Image
13. A little device that you move with your hand which then moves the cursor on the screen.
Blog
Mouse
Password
Secondary storage device
14. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Animate
Formula bar
Send
OS
15. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Virus
Title bar
Align
Toggle Switches
16. 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
Default
Menu toolbar
Web site
Screensaver
17. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
AutoContent
Junk
Note Pad
Toggles
18. A circuit board that you can install in a slot inside the computer to expand the computer's memory or give it the means to communicate with a peripheral device.
Cards
Output device
Word Art
HTTP
19. 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.
Operating system
Format
Signature block
Abacus
20. 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.
Web site
Merged
UNIVAC
Number
21. E-mail software program by Microsoft that enables users to easily send and receive e-mail on their computer
Ad-ware
Outlook
SAVE
On/Off
22. The number keys on the right side of the keyboard that are laid out like the keys on an adding machine. In most cases - you can use these keys interchangeably with the number keys on the top row of the keyboard. Some programs use the numeric keypad a
Num lock
GUI
Download
Gateway
23. The type and how big the text or object is
Jump/Flash drive
Frame
Size & Style
Icon
24. 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.
WYSIWYG
Column
Digital
Template
25. Computer company
Letters
Objects box/pane
Output device
Apple/Mac
26. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
Journal
Symbol
Tables
Password
27. Term used to describe the location or folder that e-mail is received on the computer or a computer program
CLOSE
Close box
Recycle bin
Inbox
28. A letter - number or other symbol.
Screensaver
Calculator
Character
Thesaurus
29. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
Pointer
Secondary storage device
Ergonomics
Objects box/pane
30. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Sort
Document
Prompt
Date/Time control
31. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
Forward
OS
Power Point
Mouse
32. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
Insert/Type over
Address
Virus
Spam
33. The change from one thing to another
Transition
Menu - drop-down
Punched cards
Auto Text
34. Toolbar used to format documents
Formatting toolbar
Prompt
Print dialog box
Search & Replace
35. A file or view of data formatted in a way that allows the user to see a large amount of data quickly from documents or a database.
Windows
Calculate
Reports
Worksheet tab
36. 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).
Brochures
HTTP
Active programs
Task panes
37. 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.
Key tape
Icon
WYSIWYG
Paint
38. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Keyboard
Undo
Personal Letter Format
Auto-number
39. In general - the term query is commonly used to describe a question or request that is made by a user or another computer or device
Application software
SAVE
Document
Query
40. Receptacle for unwanted items
Joystick
Create
Compact Disk
Recycle bin
41. A collection of icons - pictures - buttons and other useful image files along with sound and video files that can be embedded or inserted into web pages.
Insert & Delete
Default # worksheets
Clipart
Form
42. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Function
Print
Apple/Mac
Prompt
43. Term used to describe a software program that is intentionally installed on the computer by a user to monitor or spy on what other users of the same computer are doing.
Recycle bin
Reports
Word Art
Spy-ware
44. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Floppy drive
Scanner
Margins
Abacus
45. Documents used to remind the user of an event or occasion
Memos
Toggles
Address
Computer output
46. 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
OPEN
Outlook
Create
47. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Calculator
Screensaver
Edit
Calendar
48. 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.
Relationships
Drag & Drop
DSL
Database
49. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Form
Screen
GUI
Placeholder
50. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
Query
Chart
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