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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. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Output
Brochures
Function
Banners
2. Command or option used to close a program or file.
EXIT
Typeface & Font
Secondary storage device
Title bar
3. A design that defines the overall look of characters
Floppy drive
Typeface & Font
Integrated circuits
Borders
4. Where you get something
Active worksheet
Microphone
Receive
Worksheet
5. A row in a table
Change
Record
Option
Align
6. Add - delete or change the contents of a cell or worksheet or file.
Contacts
Edit
URL
Layout
7. Pages that have instructions - questions - etc. that need to be numbered
Sort
Key tape
Contacts
Page Numbering
8. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
Objects box/pane
Calculator
Chart
Keyboard
9. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Upload
Hard copy
Graphics
Query
10. The address of documents and resources on the internet.
Background
URL
Default # worksheets
Page Numbering
11. Microsoft WordPad is a free rich text editor included with Microsoft Windows 95 - 98 - ME - NT - 2000 - XP - Vista - 7 - and future releases of Microsoft Windows.
WordPad
Tasks
Indicators
HTTP
12. An early operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Disc Operating System).
Operating system
Internet
WWW
MS-DOS
13. 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.
Sort
Notepad
WYSIWYG
Analyze
14. In mathematics - a sum is the total amount obtained from adding numbers
SUM
On/Off
Document
Ergonomics
15. An item that has been disposed of
Multiple
Microphone
Receive
Deleted items
16. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Template
User name
Design
Formatting toolbar
17. 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.
Format
Cell address/cell reference
Title bar
Filter
18. Everything to the Left alignment - semi-colon
Block Letter Format
Sub-menu
Edit
Task panes
19. The first calculation device
SUM
Active worksheet
Abacus
Ready
20. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
Journal
Junk
Sub-menu
Password
21. A word or character that causes the computer to do something. A command is a request or directions given to a computer.
Record
Command
Document
Exported
22. A precise series of instructions written in a computer language that tells the computer what to do and how to do it. Programs are also called 'software' or 'applications.'
Hyperlink
Outbox
Program
MS Windows
23. 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
Layout
Character
Create
Keyboard
24. To combine two or more files into a single file.
CPU
Merged
Browser
Ergonomics
25. Space separating text or other elements from the edge of the paper commonly adjusted through the page setup.
Key tape
Screen
Margins
Row
26. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Background
Workbook
Demote
Secondary storage device
27. A picture or graphics file that can be inserted on a web page and displayed in a browser.
Image
Cell address/cell reference
Calculator
Signature block
28. This is a picture or an image.
Graphics
Monitor
Paragraph dialog box
Smart Tag
29. The process of transferring information from a computer to a web site (or other remote location on a network). v. To transfer information from a computer to a web site (or other remote location on a network).
Upload
Screensaver
Word Art
Ergonomics
30. Where you advertise something
Promote
Relationships
Typeface & Font
Formula bar
31. Data laid out in a horizontal line in a table or spreadsheet
Monitor
Timing
Clipart
Row
32. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
Surf
Note Pad
Modified Block Letter Format
Update
33. The process of writing data to a storage medium such as a floppy diskette or a hard disk drive
SAVE
Function
Save As
.xls
34. 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.
Forward
Cut - Copy & Paste
Digital
Blog
35. Term used to describe the process of saving information to be used later
Tasks
Store
Edit
Outbox
36. 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.
Look-up menu
DSL
Floppy drive
OS
37. Something that can be accessed
Formatting toolbar
Grammar Checker
Field
OPEN
38. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Create
Menu
Indicators
Navigate
39. A group of application programs - usually on one disk - designed to share data.
Integrated circuits
Compact Disk
Filter
Input device
40. Light or led that indicates the status of a hardware device
Hard drive
Indicators
Hyperlink
Spy-ware
41. This is the process where you copy something from another computer or the Internet - and save it on your computer.
Notes
Scanner
Download
spacing
42. A command that puts a file away but keeps the program you're in open so that you can continue to work.
Navigate
Hyperlink
Design
CLOSE
43. 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
Gridlines
Page Setup dialog box
Auto-number
44. 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.
MAX
Address
CPU
Grammar Checker
45. A named sub-window of a frames page. This may be scrollable and resizable and may have a border or outline.
Font dialog box
Web site
WWW
Frame
46. A tool box that allows you to change the font of text
Send
Font dialog box
Modem
Output
47. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
Punched cards
Caps lock
URL
Soft copy
48. 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.
Menu toolbar
UNIVAC
Hard drive
Formatting toolbar
49. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0
Number
Web site
Input device
Brochures
50. A computer bridge is a device that connects two local-area networks (LANs) - or two segments of the same LAN.
Print
Keyboard
Bridge
Alignment