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Computer 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 software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
Analyze
SUM
Bridge
Forward
2. The physical and mechanical components of a computer system - such as the electronic circuitry - chips - monitor - disks - disk drives - keyboard - modem - and printer.
EXIT
Hardware
Toggles
Menu
3. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
ISP
Recycle bin
Organize
Template
4. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Prompt
Blog
Web site
Task-switching
5. 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.
Compact Disk
Junk
Currency
Receive
6. A row in a table
Soft copy
Smart Tag
Objects box/pane
Record
7. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Modem
Personal Letter Format
Insert & Delete
Browser
8. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Fonts
Slide show
Paint
Soft copy
9. A device that scans something that is flat and sends the image to the computer.
Desktop
Calculator
Contacts
Scanner
10. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
Bulleted list
Task-switching
EXIT
WWW
11. 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
Receive
Chart
Copyright
12. Maximum
MAX
Menu toolbar
GUI
Chart
13. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
Thesaurus
Punched cards
Hardware
Application software
14. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
Letters
Query
Image
Note Pad
15. A little device that you move with your hand which then moves the cursor on the screen.
Mouse
MS Windows
Cut - Copy & Paste
Soft copy
16. 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.
Surf
Form
Template
GUI
17. A software program or program feature designed to locate misspelled words and notify the user of those misspelled words.
Edit
Formatting toolbar
Spell Checker
Upload
18. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Menu
Flyers
Bulleted list
Clipart
19. This is simply a way to send a message from one computer to another.
Insert & Delete
E-mail
Scanner
Background
20. The change from one thing to another
.doc
Output device
Transition
Active worksheet
21. A named sub-window of a frames page. This may be scrollable and resizable and may have a border or outline.
Enter
Frame
Transition
Jump/Flash drive
22. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
HTML
Active worksheet
Personal Letter Format
Internet
23. 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
Num lock
Query
Timing
Currency
24. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
Virus
Microphone
Range
Placeholder
25. Another name for the hard disc that stores information information in a computer.
Sub-menu
Icon
Hard drive
Calculate
26. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
spacing
Spam
Outlook
Web site
27. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Formula
Store
Scanner
Headers & Footers
28. A difference in the text
Compact Disk
On/Off
Change
Margins
29. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Integrated circuits
Setup dialog box
Send
Microphone
30. A location where deleted files are temporarily stored on Apple Macintosh computers
Contacts
Headers & Footers
Trashcan
Abacus
31. 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.
SUM
Insert & Delete
Save As
Application software
32. Software that allows one to calculate numbers in a format that is similar to pages in a conventional ledger.
Command
Task panes
Spreadsheet
Gateway
33. 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.
Output device
Abacus
Windows
Toolbar
34. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Hard copy
Web site
Formula bar
Status bar
35. An operating environment created by MS provide an interface known as GUI for IBM compatible computers
Enter
Microphone
Junk
MS Windows
36. Shows the date & time & lets you set the clock
Task panes
CLOSE
Date/Time control
Timing
37. 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.
Block Letter Format
Spy-ware
Forward
CA TV
38. A column in a table
Field
Spy-ware
Relationships
Search & Replace
39. Unique location identified by intersecting column and row coordinates. (spreadsheet application) -The address or name of a specific cell. Cell references may be used in formulas and are relative or absolute. (spreadsheet application)
Icon
Calculate
Start-up button
Cell address/cell reference
40. Term used to describe a menu that is contained within another menu
Database
Microphone
Accessories programs
Sub-menu
41. A device - such as a keyboard - stylus and tablet - mouse - puck - or microphone - that allows input of information (letters - numbers - sound - video) to a computer.
Worksheet
.doc
Input device
Signature block
42. Programs currently being worked on
URL
Gridlines
Active programs
Pointer
43. Toolbar used to format documents
GUI
Clipart
Formatting toolbar
Highlighting Tool
44. The cell in which you are working - indicated by the current location of the cell pointer.
Number
Active cell
Spreadsheet
Option
45. 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.
MEDIAN
File name
Virus
spacing
46. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Exported
Undo
Sub-menu
Caps lock
47. 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
Record
DSL
Word wrap
ISP
48. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Surf
Secondary storage device
WYSIWYG
MS Word
49. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
Background
Calculate
.xls
E-mail
50. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Placeholder
Range
Power Point
Calendar