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Computer Literacy

Subjects : literacy, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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.






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.






3. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information






4. Justify






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






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.






7. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network






8. To reduce to a lower grade or rank






9. Alternatively referred to as the arithmetic mean - average is the sum of a series of numbers - divided by the total amount of numbers.






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.






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.






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.






13. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.






14. The address of documents and resources on the internet.






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).






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






17. An operating environment created by MS provide an interface known as GUI for IBM compatible computers






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19. The cell in which you are working - indicated by the current location of the cell pointer.






20. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.






21. To combine two or more files into a single file.






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.






23. Viewing portion of a display






24. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power






25. This is simply a way to send a message from one computer to another.






26. This is a picture or an image.






27. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.






28. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.






29. The type of money used in a certain place






30. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization






31. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord






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.






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






34. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.






35. Medium






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.






37. A connection that is established using a modem






38. Minimum






39. Everything to the Left alignment - semi-colon






40. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.






41. A Microsoft program






42. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way






43. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images






44. Where you send something in the past tense






45. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.






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.






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.






48. The first calculation device






49. A tool where the numbering happens automatically






50. A word or character that causes the computer to do something. A command is a request or directions given to a computer.