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Computer Literacy
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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. Computer software that performs a task or set of tasks - such as word processing or drawing. Applications are also referred to as programs.
Application software
Send
Personal Letter Format
MAX
2. To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis
WWW
Analyze
File name
Menu - drop-down
3. 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.
Download
Default # worksheets
UNIVAC
Memos
4. A file or view of data formatted in a way that allows the user to see a large amount of data quickly from documents or a database.
Accessories programs
Reports
Attach
Browser
5. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Print
Search & Replace
Input
Annotations
6. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
ISP
Paint
Apple/Mac
Text box
7. Computer company
Layout
Operating system
Upload
Apple/Mac
8. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Blog
Refresh
Dial-up
EXIT
9. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord
Power Point
Download
Jump/Flash drive
Placeholder
10. A series of keys to unlock a screen
Scrolling
Toolbar
MAX
CTRL+ALT+DEL
11. 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.
Integrated circuits
Prompt
Punched cards
Receive
12. 3
Task-switching
Filter
Bulleted list
Default # worksheets
13. The actual web page on the domain
Spam
index.html
Smart Tag
CTRL+ALT+DEL
14. 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.
Attach
Task-switching
Input device
Form
15. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0
SAVE
Number
Analog
Soft copy
16. A row in a table
Notes
Record
Template
Page Numbering
17. In mathematics - a sum is the total amount obtained from adding numbers
Workbook
EXIT
Edit
SUM
18. 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.
Copyright
Grammar Checker
Letters
Punched cards
19. 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
Outbox
MIN
Spam
Query
20. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
WordPad
Calculator
Spam
Row
21. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
Accessories programs
Image
Blog
Chart
22. A field or section of a page that enables a user to enter text
Navigate
Reports
Text box
Trashcan
23. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Function
Digital
On/Off
SUM
24. A vertical or horizontal bar commonly located on the far right or bottom of a window that allows a user to move the window viewing area up - down - left - or right.
Scroll Bars
Input device
Scrolling
AutoCorrect
25. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
Journal
Calculate
Alignment
Undo
26. The horizontal placement of cell contents - for example: left - center - or right. (spreadsheet application)
Hard drive
Align
Screen
Status bar
27. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Tables
Query
Insert & Delete
Animate
28. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Design
Active cell
Command
Compact Disk
29. Adding text to a document
Integrated circuits
Notes
Insert/Type over
MIN
30. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
MAX
Number
URL
Punched cards
31. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
MS Windows Tour
Start-up button
Program
Relationships
32. 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)
Gridlines
Task panes
Setup dialog box
Formula
33. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Floppy drive
Spell Checker
Analyze
Secondary storage device
34. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
MS Windows Tour
Formula
Character
Headers & Footers
35. The horizontal strip across the top of an application's window. Each word on the strip has a context sensitive drop-down menu containing features and actions that are available for the application in use.
Retrieve
Objects box/pane
Formula bar
Menu toolbar
36. 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
Organize
Word wrap
Ergonomics
Calculator
37. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Auto-number
Ready
Update
Outbox
38. A character that is not a number or a letter
Menu - drop-down
Symbol
Storage
HTTP
39. A difference in the text
Num lock
Software
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Change
40. Where you send something in the past tense
Send
Page Numbering
Sent
OS
41. Command or option used to close a program or file.
Update
Active cell
.doc
EXIT
42. 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.
Imported
Attach
Scanner
Workbook
43. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Range
Character
Calendar
Digital
44. Horizontal lines within a chart that make the chart easier to read.
Template
Ready
Memos
Gridlines
45. The change from one thing to another
Transition
Letters
Size & Style
Ready
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.
Banners
Junk
Align
Hardware
47. Turns computer on and off
Exported
Option
Borders
On/Off
48. Row of boxes - often at the top of an application window that control various functions of the software
Exported
Task panes
Output device
Toolbar
49. Text or an image that is connected by hypertext coding to a different location. By selecting the text or image with a mouse - the computer 'jumps to' (or displays) the linked text.
Monitor
Word Art
Retrieve
Hyperlink
50. A box that allows a change of the format of text that affects the complete paragraph or is different from other paragraphs in a document.
Secondary storage device
Range
Outline View
Paragraph dialog box