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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. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
Punched cards
CLOSE
Drag & Drop
UNIVAC
2. Adding text to a document
Cut - Copy & Paste
Key tape
Insert/Type over
Spy-ware
3. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
OS
Exported
Send
Word wrap
4. 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.'
Task-switching
Program
Ready
Num lock
5. 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.
Apple/Mac
Column
.xls
Background
6. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Active cell
Caps lock
Tables
Toggle Switches
7. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Flyers
Caps lock
Personal Letter Format
Spy-ware
8. 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
Apple/Mac
On/Off
Download
Power Point
9. 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.
Scroll Bars
Hyperlink
Tasks
Windows
10. 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
Bridge
spacing
Title bar
11. 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.
Screen
Create
Analyze
Grammar Checker
12. Alternatively referred to as state - status is a term used to describe the current situation or mode the device or user currently is in.
Hyperlink
Spreadsheet
Status bar
Borders
13. A set of instructions that you enter in a cell to perform numeric calculations (adding - multiplying - averaging - etc.); for example - +A1+B1. (in spreadsheet applications)
Word wrap
Highlighting Tool
URL
Formula
14. 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.
Junk
Save As
Frame
WYSIWYG
15. A picture or graphics file that can be inserted on a web page and displayed in a browser.
Scanner
Screen
Image
Cell address/cell reference
16. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Change
Print
Document
WYSIWYG
17. The default document name in Excel
Memos
.xls
Highlighting Tool
Calculator
18. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Copyright
Gridlines
Annotations
Reports
19. An image usually displayed at the top of a page in a Web site - containing text and design elements (often to identify the site).
Bulleted list
Spell Checker
Banners
Cards
20. Command or option used to close a program or file.
Surf
Promote
EXIT
E-mail
21. 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
Chart
Imported
Num lock
index.html
22. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Look-up menu
MS Word
Pointer
Calendar
23. The end of a line of text. You can force a line break by pressing 'Return' - or you can let the application break lines for you. This is a special character that forces a new line on a page without creating a new paragraph.
Line-spacing
Animate
Word wrap
CTRL+ALT+DEL
24. A connection that is established using a modem
Letters
WYSIWYG
Dial-up
Keyboard
25. 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.
MS Word
Spy-ware
Sort
Demote
26. 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.
SUM
Imported
Tables
Keyboard
27. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
Function
Analog
Output
OS
28. 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.
Drag & Drop
UNIVAC
Dial-up
Blog
29. Viewing portion of a display
Query
Screen
spacing
URL
30. Row of boxes - often at the top of an application window that control various functions of the software
Toolbar
Apple/Mac
Block Letter Format
Typeface & Font
31. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord
Jump/Flash drive
Alignment
Store
SAVE
32. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
WWW
Update
Software
Organize
33. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Pointer
Formula bar
Spell Checker
Download
34. 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.
Outbox
Imported
Attach
Punched cards
35. Space separating text or other elements from the edge of the paper commonly adjusted through the page setup.
UNIVAC
Paint
Built-in Styles
Margins
36. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Document
Image
Refresh
Journal
37. A character displayed on the screen to prompt the user to take some action. The most common prompt is the 'C prompt' in which the computer hard drive or 'C' requests directions on what the computer should perform next.
Word Art
Undo
Spam
Prompt
38. This is all the instructions for the computer or a program designed to do different things. Examples are: Microsoft Word - Internet Explorer - and Windows.
Toggles
AutoContent
Software
Image
39. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Range
Download
Auto-number
Forward
40. Software file that contains updated information and various fixes that resolves issues that have been located by the software developer to help prevent those errors from occurring in the future
HTTP
Update
Display/Monitor
Navigate
41. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Filter
Enter
Undo
Keyboard
42. Bar located along the top of a window or a dialog box that displays the name of the window or software program being used.
Range
Title bar
Caps lock
On/Off
43. Internet Service Provider
Worksheet
Web site
ISP
Thesaurus
44. Term used to describe a menu that is contained within another menu
Spam
Wizard
Sub-menu
index.html
45. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Refresh
Handouts
Monitor
Animate
46. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.
Fonts
Active programs
Menu
Search & Replace
47. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Upload
Number
Input device
Organize
48. 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.
Field
Clipart
Template
Transition
49. Completes the text for you
Auto Text
Address
Pointer
Ad-ware
50. A series of keys to unlock a screen
Size & Style
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Digital
Integrated circuits