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Computer Literacy
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Study First
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. The study and designing of products to help reduce the stress & make a product more comfortable to the user helping increase the users' productivity
Column
Smart Tag
Worksheet
Ergonomics
2. 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
Word wrap
Filter
Output
Placeholder
3. Any character that is not considered a number or symbol
Alignment
Range
Monitor
Letters
4. Copy of text stored on the computer and only accessible through the computer
Hard copy
Hard drive
Soft copy
Modem
5. A row in a table
Record
Font dialog box
File name
Input device
6. Command or option used to close a program or file.
EXIT
Graphics
Monitor
Built-in Styles
7. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Scanner
Floppy drive
Hyperlink
Menu toolbar
8. Documents used to remind the user of an event or occasion
Command
Layout
Memos
Caps lock
9. A tab at the bottom left corner of a worksheet that has the worksheet name and other worksheets in the workbook
Address
Key tape
Floppy drive
Worksheet tab
10. Shows the date & time & lets you set the clock
Borders
Promote
Drag & Drop
Date/Time control
11. Pages that have instructions - questions - etc. that need to be numbered
Recycle bin
Calculate
Page Numbering
Prompt
12. An image usually displayed at the top of a page in a Web site - containing text and design elements (often to identify the site).
Task-switching
Gateway
Hard copy
Banners
13. In mathematics - a sum is the total amount obtained from adding numbers
MIN
Field
SUM
Internet
14. This is the screen that appears if you are not browsing the Internet - reading a file - or playing a game. Your icons are on this screen.
MS Windows Tour
Update
Mouse
Desktop
15. Something that can be accessed
Design
Document
Download
OPEN
16. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Computer output
Retrieve
Timing
Send
17. 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.
Thesaurus
Display/Monitor
Built-in Styles
Forward
18. A key that can lock into place so that letters you type will come out capitalized. Caps Lock doesn't affect non-alphabetic keys (such as punctuation and symbols). To access these - you must still press the Shift key (on either side of the key board).
Image
AutoContent
Caps lock
Field
19. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Menu - drop-down
Graphics
Demote
Forward
20. 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
Graphics
Trashcan
Layout
Browser
21. To combine two or more files into a single file.
URL
Caps lock
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Merged
22. 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
Floppy drive
Sort
Handouts
23. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Monitor
Modem
Jump/Flash drive
Ready
24. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Storage
Design
Cards
Signature block
25. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Typeface & Font
Print
Modified Block Letter Format
Forward
26. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Integrated circuits
Annotations
Insert & Delete
Web site
27. To move the visual portions of a screen up - down - left - or right - in order to see additional information on the monitor.
Notes
Sent
Scrolling
Blog
28. Recording how long something takes
Blog
Design
Output
Timing
29. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.
Tables
Placeholder
Cell address/cell reference
Menu
30. Minimum
Analog
MIN
Option
Gridlines
31. 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).
Database
Retrieve
Joystick
HTTP
32. Where you send something in the past tense
Active programs
HTTP
Sent
Word wrap
33. A space reserved for a person's signature
Auto-number
Signature block
E-mail
Memos
34. Where you advertise something
Refresh
Promote
Create
Slide show
35. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
Output device
Integrated circuits
Annotations
HTML
36. Information that comes from a computer after it has been processed
Alignment
Font dialog box
Active cell
Computer output
37. 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.
Hyperlink
CPU
Image
Blog
38. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Secondary storage device
Command
Tasks
Layout
39. A website - or web site - is a central location of various web pages that are all related and can be accessed by visiting the home page using a browser
Web site
User name
Program
Page Numbering
40. A Microsoft program
Number
Toggle Switches
MS Word
Row
41. A set of programs that - among other things - controls the way information is loaded into memory - the way the computer works with that information - the way information is stored on a disk - and the way the computer communicates with a printer and o
Headers & Footers
URL
Imported
Operating system
42. The address of documents and resources on the internet.
Monitor
Field
URL
Close box
43. A tool box that allows you to change the font of text
Size & Style
Font dialog box
Status bar
Background
44. This is the process where you copy something from another computer or the Internet - and save it on your computer.
Objects box/pane
Scanner
Download
Punched cards
45. An item that has been disposed of
Soft copy
Deleted items
Hardware
HTTP
46. A command that puts a file away but keeps the program you're in open so that you can continue to work.
Typeface & Font
CLOSE
Currency
Pointer
47. A word or character that causes the computer to do something. A command is a request or directions given to a computer.
Number
Command
Merged
Key tape
48. Medium
Save As
Recycle bin
Sent
MEDIAN
49. A group of application programs - usually on one disk - designed to share data.
Integrated circuits
Send
Save As
Imported
50. A picture or graphics file that can be inserted on a web page and displayed in a browser.
OS
Range
MIN
Image