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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. This is a picture or an image.
Graphics
Title bar
Publish
Character
2. A piece of paper used to advertise an event - company - etc.
Handouts
Trashcan
Prompt
index.html
3. Recording how long something takes
Banners
Relationships
index.html
Timing
4. A Microsoft program
Flyers
MS Word
Status bar
Modified Block Letter Format
5. 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.
WYSIWYG
Currency
Demote
Sent
6. Completes the text for you
MS-DOS
Auto Text
Download
Close box
7. The first calculation device
Menu - drop-down
Background
Abacus
Built-in Styles
8. Sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes.
Fonts
Refresh
Spy-ware
Cell address/cell reference
9. Electronic hardware device or software capable of performing mathematical calculations
Calculator
Floppy drive
Screensaver
Spam
10. Extra programs
Integrated circuits
Accessories programs
Cards
Letters
11. Alternatively referred to as state - status is a term used to describe the current situation or mode the device or user currently is in.
Application software
Query
Status bar
Blog
12. This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files - like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Browser
Key tape
OS
Page Numbering
13. 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
Multiple
Symbol
Borders
Update
14. To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis
Hard drive
Analyze
Ergonomics
Prompt
15. Data laid out in a horizontal line in a table or spreadsheet
Default
Status bar
Row
Apple/Mac
16. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
E-mail
Active cell
Edit
Calendar
17. When referring to a network - a gateway is an address used as an entry point into another network
Gateway
Exported
Task panes
Note Pad
18. 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.
Range
Web page
Notepad
Paragraph dialog box
19. Turns computer on and off
On/Off
Hyperlink
Margins
Analyze
20. A file that has been created with an overall layout and format to be used for a group of documents or a generic document.
Template
Character
Retrieve
Download
21. Programs currently being worked on
AutoContent
Active programs
Icon
EXIT
22. Where you advertise something
Download
Page Numbering
Promote
MS Windows Tour
23. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
Note Pad
Organize
Objects box/pane
Spell Checker
24. 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).
Bridge
Multiple
Caps lock
Journal
25. Cable TV
CA TV
Annotations
UNIVAC
Range
26. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Menu
Headers & Footers
MS Windows
Clipart
27. A tool box that allows you to change the font of text
WordPad
Font dialog box
Software
Indicators
28. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Personal Letter Format
Abacus
Program
Demote
29. A minor show offered in addition to a main exhibition
Form
Slide show
AVERAGE
Num lock
30. The name you give your file or document before you save it on a disk. This name should help you identify and retrieve this file.
Address
SAVE
Modem
File name
31. Alternatively referred to as an account name - login ID - and user ID - a username or user name is a name given to a user on a computer or computer network.
Undo
Cards
Annotations
User name
32. Exploring the Internet.
URL
WordPad
Address
Surf
33. A connection that is established using a modem
Web site
Dial-up
Sort
Spy-ware
34. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Letters
Spy-ware
Demote
OS
35. This is a picture that pops up when you are not using your computer.
MAX
Gridlines
Title bar
Screensaver
36. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
Spy-ware
Relationships
Undo
MAX
37. Where the text is automatically entered
Reports
Toolbar
AutoContent
Wizard
38. When a machine - object etc. is capable of performing a task
SAVE
Worksheet
Headers & Footers
Ready
39. A group of application programs - usually on one disk - designed to share data.
Outlook
Surf
Integrated circuits
Spell Checker
40. Automatically corrects misspellings on common typos
Wizard
Record
AutoCorrect
MIN
41. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
HTTP
Bridge
Task-switching
Output
42. 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.
Attach
Computer output
Reports
Scanner
43. The location of a specific cell or range expressed by the coordinates of column and row; for example - A1. (spreadsheet application)
Page Numbering
Address
Brochures
Text box
44. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
Internet
Caps lock
Modem
Default
45. 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)
Formula
Monitor
Page Numbering
Download
46. Electronic signal that is sent as binary digits
Spreadsheet
MS-DOS
Edit
Digital
47. A box that allows the process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Hard copy
Print dialog box
Auto-number
Query
48. Term used to describe the process of switching back and forth between settings or between programs
Toggles
Auto-number
Desktop
index.html
49. A software program or program feature designed to locate misspelled words and notify the user of those misspelled words.
OS
Spell Checker
SUM
Output
50. A term used to describe the process of searching for - locating and returning data.
Analyze
Keyboard
Retrieve
Chart