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Computer Literacy
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Subjects
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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. Document commonly written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that is accessible through the Internet or through another network using a browser
Gridlines
Web page
Screensaver
Upload
2. Adding text to a document
Sort
Date/Time control
Integrated circuits
Insert/Type over
3. 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.
CA TV
WYSIWYG
Drag & Drop
Size & Style
4. A series of keys to unlock a screen
WWW
AutoContent
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Date/Time control
5. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Address
Brochures
Headers & Footers
Outline View
6. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Range
Retrieve
Hard copy
Toggle Switches
7. The type of money used in a certain place
Highlighting Tool
Currency
Range
Calendar
8. 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.
WWW
Soft copy
Blog
Hyperlink
9. Sometimes referred to as run around - word wrap is an ability found in most text editing programs that allows any text that reaches the end of the far right edge of the window to wrap automatically to the next line without requiring the user to press
Bulleted list
Retrieve
Font dialog box
Word wrap
10. Extra programs
Input device
Merged
Accessories programs
Display/Monitor
11. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord
Calculate
Accessories programs
Character
Jump/Flash drive
12. 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
Calendar
Typeface & Font
Merged
13. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
Change
Undo
Input device
Spam
14. An operating environment created by MS provide an interface known as GUI for IBM compatible computers
Highlighting Tool
MS Windows
Scroll Bars
Num lock
15. Electronic signal that is sent as binary digits
Digital
Default # worksheets
Reports
Indicators
16. 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.
UNIVAC
Calendar
Calculate
Navigate
17. Any character that is not considered a number or symbol
Format
Letters
Output
Screensaver
18. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Page Numbering
Pointer
Word Art
Application software
19. Data that goes into a computer device.
Multiple
Icon
Notepad
Input
20. The change from one thing to another
Floppy drive
Transition
Inbox
Hard drive
21. To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis
Organize
Active cell
Paragraph dialog box
Analyze
22. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Default # worksheets
Tasks
Block Letter Format
Search & Replace
23. More than one or something that can be multiplied
Spy-ware
Frame
Multiple
Indicators
24. Term used to describe the location or folder where e-mail is stored before being sent
OS
Dial-up
Outbox
Sort
25. Completes the text for you
Screen
Inbox
Auto Text
Line-spacing
26. Something that can be accessed
Gridlines
Application software
Note Pad
OPEN
27. A type of edging around a document
Key tape
Borders
Query
Size & Style
28. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Function
Create
Modem
Number
29. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
Word wrap
MIN
Relationships
Scanner
30. 3
Integrated circuits
CPU
index.html
Default # worksheets
31. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Row
Letters
MIN
Send
32. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
Alignment
Virus
Timing
Outline View
33. 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.
DSL
Worksheet
Brochures
Output device
34. The process of moving data used in another program or earlier software version and moving it into another program or later version of the program.
Change
Imported
index.html
Sent
35. Toolbar used to format documents
Query
Formatting toolbar
Display/Monitor
Signature block
36. Data laid out in a horizontal line in a table or spreadsheet
Block Letter Format
Paint
Screen
Row
37. Used to advertise different programs or hotels etc.
Reports
Desktop
Mouse
Brochures
38. A software program or program feature sometimes found in a program such as a word processor that can be used to help check text for any improper grammar.
Column
Send
Form
Grammar Checker
39. A word or character that causes the computer to do something. A command is a request or directions given to a computer.
Command
Address
Analog
Handouts
40. Hardware peripheral that allows computer users to input audio into computers
Outbox
Hyperlink
Microphone
MS Windows Tour
41. 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
Display/Monitor
Browser
Cut - Copy & Paste
Deleted items
42. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Handouts
Imported
Reports
Personal Letter Format
43. This is the process where you copy something from another computer or the Internet - and save it on your computer.
Design
Download
Screen
Command
44. Styles of text already in MS
Highlighting Tool
Demote
Ergonomics
Built-in Styles
45. Sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes.
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Fonts
Outbox
Placeholder
46. Alternatively referred to as UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) - spam - not to be confused with the meat product - is slang commonly used to describe junk e-mail on the Internet.
MS Word
Junk
Attach
Imported
47. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Worksheet tab
Range
Undo
Document
48. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Calendar
E-mail
Form
Outline View
49. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Symbol
Task-switching
Status bar
spacing
50. 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.
SUM
Date/Time control
Outline View
Setup dialog box