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Computer Literacy
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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. Microsoft Office feature found in Microsoft Office 2002 (XP) - Office 2003 - and later versions that enables users to have quick access to common features - information - and commands.
Task panes
Outlook
Insert/Type over
Soft copy
2. 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.
Junk
WYSIWYG
Hardware
MS Windows Tour
3. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information
Analyze
Start-up button
Worksheet
Software
4. Justify
Receive
Modem
Alignment
.xls
5. 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
Ad-ware
MS Windows
Operating system
Letters
6. The rectangular area - above the worksheet window - that displays a cell's contents - including numbers - text - and formulas - when you click a cell. You can use the formula bar to enter and edit data in the active cell.
Menu - drop-down
HTML
Formula bar
Toggles
7. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
Status bar
Journal
Prompt
Objects box/pane
8. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Windows
Hyperlink
Demote
ISP
9. Alternatively referred to as the arithmetic mean - average is the sum of a series of numbers - divided by the total amount of numbers.
WordPad
Compact Disk
AVERAGE
Option
10. This is all the instructions for the computer or a program designed to do different things. Examples are: Microsoft Word - Internet Explorer - and Windows.
Range
Sent
Software
Scrolling
11. 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.
Font dialog box
Digital
Screensaver
WYSIWYG
12. Alternatively referred to as a worksheet - a spreadsheet is a data file made up of rows and columns that are used to sort data and allow a user to manipulate and arrange data easily - commonly numerical data.
Word Art
Worksheet
Document
OS
13. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Refresh
Word wrap
Retrieve
Bulleted list
14. The address of documents and resources on the internet.
Flyers
Monitor
URL
Joystick
15. 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).
Junk
Database
Brochures
Hardware
16. The study and designing of products to help reduce the stress & make a product more comfortable to the user helping increase the users' productivity
Formula bar
Hardware
Surf
Ergonomics
17. An operating environment created by MS provide an interface known as GUI for IBM compatible computers
MS Windows
Download
Edit
Block Letter Format
18. 3
Input
Output device
Default # worksheets
CPU
19. The cell in which you are working - indicated by the current location of the cell pointer.
Thesaurus
Floppy drive
Active cell
Caps lock
20. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Frame
Ready
Animate
CPU
21. To combine two or more files into a single file.
Gateway
Key tape
Merged
Relationships
22. 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.
Print dialog box
Setup dialog box
Document
Line-spacing
23. Viewing portion of a display
Create
Screen
Alignment
Worksheet
24. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Attach
Signature block
Secondary storage device
Hard copy
25. This is simply a way to send a message from one computer to another.
Trashcan
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Display/Monitor
E-mail
26. This is a picture or an image.
Graphics
Outbox
Pointer
Status bar
27. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.
Menu
Background
Power Point
Key tape
28. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
SAVE
Analog
Print
On/Off
29. The type of money used in a certain place
Currency
Software
Print dialog box
Surf
30. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Calculate
Copyright
Word wrap
Accessories programs
31. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord
Mouse
Sent
Jump/Flash drive
HTTP
32. A circuit board that you can install in a slot inside the computer to expand the computer's memory or give it the means to communicate with a peripheral device.
Borders
Worksheet tab
Spell Checker
Cards
33. 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
Format
Hardware
Search & Replace
34. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
AutoCorrect
Chart
Punched cards
Attach
35. Medium
MEDIAN
Forward
Internet
Image
36. Allows you to collapse the documents to see only the main headings or to expand a document to see all the main headings and text.
Ergonomics
Outline View
Timing
Compact Disk
37. A connection that is established using a modem
Enter
Outlook
Forward
Dial-up
38. Minimum
MIN
Contacts
Cell address/cell reference
Word wrap
39. Everything to the Left alignment - semi-colon
URL
Block Letter Format
Menu toolbar
Upload
40. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Paint
On/Off
AutoContent
Headers & Footers
41. A Microsoft program
Insert & Delete
MS Word
Abacus
Input
42. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
WordPad
Forward
Junk
E-mail
43. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Paint
Menu
Format
Signature block
44. Where you send something in the past tense
Blog
Sent
Keyboard
Copyright
45. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Spreadsheet
Num lock
Task-switching
Surf
46. 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.
Auto Text
Range
Hyperlink
CLOSE
47. 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.
Wizard
Command
Clipart
Retrieve
48. The first calculation device
WordPad
SUM
Surf
Abacus
49. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Setup dialog box
Signature block
Print
Auto-number
50. A word or character that causes the computer to do something. A command is a request or directions given to a computer.
Command
Page Setup dialog box
CPU
Date/Time control