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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. Hypertext Markup Language. A standard of text markup conventions used for documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers interpret the codes to give the text structure and formatting (such as bold - blue - or italic).
Web site
Calculator
DSL
HTML
2. A Microsoft program
MS Word
Note Pad
Layout
Web site
3. Hardware peripheral that allows computer users to input audio into computers
Typeface & Font
Flyers
Calculate
Microphone
4. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
WWW
Input
Active worksheet
Contacts
5. A feature that steps the user through the installation or setup of a software program or hardware device
Wizard
Num lock
Title bar
Format
6. Magnetic tape drive capable of moving the tape through the tapes drive's read
AVERAGE
Digital
Document
Key tape
7. 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
Field
Multiple
Program
8. A piece of paper used to advertise an event - company - etc.
CA TV
Handouts
Default # worksheets
Update
9. 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.
Line-spacing
Computer output
WYSIWYG
UNIVAC
10. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Menu - drop-down
Compact Disk
Timing
Modem
11. A box that helps you edit the parameters defined by the user that help determine how a printed page will appear.
Page Setup dialog box
Send
Size & Style
Outline View
12. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Outlook
Deleted items
Annotations
Paint
13. This is all the instructions for the computer or a program designed to do different things. Examples are: Microsoft Word - Internet Explorer - and Windows.
Software
Menu toolbar
AutoCorrect
Sub-menu
14. A general term used to describe what you see on your screen when you're using a computer. This may include video effects - tables - letters - or numbers.
Display/Monitor
Notepad
MIN
Upload
15. A space reserved for a person's signature
Display/Monitor
Signature block
URL
Borders
16. Adding text to a document
URL
Formula bar
Image
Insert/Type over
17. 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
WYSIWYG
Gateway
Field
Power Point
18. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Function
Hardware
Auto-number
Toolbar
19. A location where deleted files are temporarily stored on Apple Macintosh computers
Trashcan
Surf
Apple/Mac
Timing
20. An attachment can be a picture - a word document - a movie - a sound file - an excel document - or any other file that requires another program to open it.
Attach
MS Windows
Power Point
Built-in Styles
21. 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
Multiple
Align
Layout
Operating system
22. Everything to the left except the date - closing - signature - typed name and senders address are to the middle semi-colon
Font dialog box
Ad-ware
Modified Block Letter Format
HTTP
23. A type of edging around a document
Store
Ergonomics
Scroll Bars
Borders
24. A field or section of a page that enables a user to enter text
Text box
Web site
Word Art
Spreadsheet
25. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Surf
Undo
Enter
Pointer
26. A term used to describe a software program or section of a program that is running in a multitasking environment.
Analog
Tasks
Accessories programs
Range
27. Horizontal lines within a chart that make the chart easier to read.
Screen
Gridlines
Ad-ware
Blog
28. When a machine - object etc. is capable of performing a task
Ready
Active programs
Scrolling
Merged
29. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Sort
Joystick
Calculate
Auto-number
30. Creating a new document or folder
Send
Title bar
Typeface & Font
Create
31. A software program or program feature designed to locate misspelled words and notify the user of those misspelled words.
Personal Letter Format
Spell Checker
Organize
Calculate
32. Completes the text for you
Graphics
Auto Text
Scrolling
Text box
33. Viewing portion of a display
Graphics
Grammar Checker
Promote
Screen
34. Term used to describe a menu that is contained within another menu
Gateway
Modem
Worksheet
Sub-menu
35. Toolbar used to format documents
Formatting toolbar
CLOSE
Jump/Flash drive
Toolbar
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).
HTTP
Toolbar
Flyers
Surf
37. 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).
Copyright
Database
Desktop
Typeface & Font
38. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
Spam
Animate
Design
Layout
39. Pages that have instructions - questions - etc. that need to be numbered
Page Numbering
AVERAGE
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Storage
40. Alternatively referred to as the arithmetic mean - average is the sum of a series of numbers - divided by the total amount of numbers.
AVERAGE
Page Numbering
Worksheet tab
Alignment
41. 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
Program
Num lock
Start-up button
Format
42. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Page Setup dialog box
Search & Replace
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Copyright
43. This is a small symbol or picture that represents a program or other things.
DSL
Icon
Scanner
Forward
44. The location of a specific cell or range expressed by the coordinates of column and row; for example - A1. (spreadsheet application)
Currency
Address
Multiple
spacing
45. 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.
Desktop
Cards
Windows
Undo
46. Where the text is automatically entered
Mouse
Sub-menu
Caps lock
AutoContent
47. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Demote
Tables
Word Art
Flyers
48. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
AutoContent
Web site
Send
Option
49. Data that come out of a computer device. For example - information displayed on the monitor - sound from the speakers - and information printed to paper.
Software
Output
Keyboard
Punched cards
50. 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.
Joystick
Gridlines
Transition
Spy-ware