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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. A program that walks you through MS
Drag & Drop
MS Windows Tour
Change
Align
2. Digital Subscriber Line. A method of connecting to the Internet via a phone line. A DSL connection uses copper telephone lines but is able to relay data at much higher speeds than modems and does not interfere with telephone use.
Memos
Ready
DSL
Text box
3. Documents used to remind the user of an event or occasion
Memos
Outbox
Built-in Styles
E-mail
4. A piece of paper used to advertise an event - company - etc.
Headers & Footers
Background
Handouts
Word Art
5. 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
MS Word
Fonts
Hard drive
6. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
Promote
Ready
Punched cards
Hyperlink
7. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
Receive
Sub-menu
Spy-ware
Virus
8. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Menu - drop-down
Cell address/cell reference
Annotations
HTTP
9. Maximum
AutoCorrect
Font dialog box
Annotations
MAX
10. To combine two or more files into a single file.
Ad-ware
Blog
Merged
Scanner
11. Completes the text for you
Scroll Bars
Align
Auto Text
Thesaurus
12. Where you get something
Hard copy
Formula
Signature block
Receive
13. Command or option used to close a program or file.
Power Point
EXIT
Print dialog box
Outline View
14. Creating a new document or folder
Print
Row
Create
Upload
15. Term used to describe a menu that is contained within another menu
Built-in Styles
Sub-menu
Template
Microphone
16. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Pointer
Publish
Update
Range
17. 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).
Cards
Toggles
Gridlines
Caps lock
18. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
HTTP
Computer output
Animate
OS
19. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Navigate
Spell Checker
MS Windows Tour
Word Art
20. Minimum
Alignment
MIN
Scroll Bars
Modified Block Letter Format
21. The horizontal placement of cell contents - for example: left - center - or right. (spreadsheet application)
MIN
Operating system
Align
Formula
22. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Hard drive
Change
AVERAGE
Exported
23. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
Caps lock
Paragraph dialog box
OS
Chart
24. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Password
Document
Spy-ware
Banners
25. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
Password
Formatting toolbar
Transition
Journal
26. Computer company
Desktop
Headers & Footers
Template
Apple/Mac
27. ...
Default
WWW
Smart Tag
Sent
28. Programs currently being worked on
Active programs
MS Windows
Character
Storage
29. 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
Operating system
Receive
Range
Integrated circuits
30. In general a range refers to a series of value between two other values
Alignment
Password
Joystick
Range
31. The actual web page on the domain
Change
Display/Monitor
index.html
UNIVAC
32. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Notepad
Navigate
Personal Letter Format
On/Off
33. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Compact Disk
Design
Floppy drive
Wizard
34. Viewing portion of a display
Brochures
Screen
Size & Style
Reports
35. Central Processing Unit. The brain of the computer.
MIN
Image
CPU
Calculator
36. Data that come out of a computer device. For example - information displayed on the monitor - sound from the speakers - and information printed to paper.
Align
Output
Layout
Storage
37. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Close box
Password
Notes
MS Windows Tour
38. A paragraph style that creates a single list element - usually indicated by a 'bullet' character. This is also known as an 'unordered list.'
MS Word
Compact Disk
Bulleted list
Secondary storage device
39. A term used to describe the process of searching for - locating and returning data.
AutoContent
Contacts
Note Pad
Retrieve
40. Many computers that are connected like a web so you can see what other computer operators show you and you can show them things as well.
Formula
Internet
Template
Chart
41. A feature that steps the user through the installation or setup of a software program or hardware device
Wizard
Transition
Status bar
Deleted items
42. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
Note Pad
Ad-ware
Menu - drop-down
index.html
43. A box that helps you edit the parameters defined by the user that help determine how a printed page will appear.
Document
Imported
Page Setup dialog box
Create
44. 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.
CA TV
Print
Toolbar
Junk
45. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Headers & Footers
Navigate
Toggle Switches
Caps lock
46. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Placeholder
Status bar
Trashcan
Drag & Drop
47. The type of money used in a certain place
Print dialog box
Currency
Function
WWW
48. This is a picture that pops up when you are not using your computer.
Input device
CA TV
Screensaver
Toolbar
49. Sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes.
Demote
Fonts
Bridge
Update
50. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
Promote
MS Word
Close box
Relationships