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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 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.
Clipart
Record
MS Windows
Timing
2. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Copyright
Paint
Alignment
Joystick
3. This is a secret code to protect your data and can keep others from accessing your computer.
Password
HTTP
Web site
Look-up menu
4. The number keys on the right side of the keyboard that are laid out like the keys on an adding machine. In most cases - you can use these keys interchangeably with the number keys on the top row of the keyboard. Some programs use the numeric keypad a
Close box
On/Off
DSL
Num lock
5. Something that can be accessed
OPEN
Notepad
Browser
Punched cards
6. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Analog
Operating system
Floppy drive
Ready
7. A field or section of a page that enables a user to enter text
Paint
Text box
Active worksheet
Task panes
8. Internet Service Provider
index.html
Title bar
ISP
Spreadsheet
9. 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.
Hyperlink
Insert & Delete
Multiple
Smart Tag
10. 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.
Transition
Formula
Modified Block Letter Format
Paragraph dialog box
11. 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
Signature block
MEDIAN
Clipart
12. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Layout
Soft copy
Abacus
Pointer
13. A feature that steps the user through the installation or setup of a software program or hardware device
Wizard
Notepad
Calculate
Operating system
14. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
MAX
Exported
Wizard
Download
15. 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.
Print dialog box
Gateway
Document
Timing
16. The horizontal placement of cell contents - for example: left - center - or right. (spreadsheet application)
Align
Caps lock
Search & Replace
Size & Style
17. 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.
Attach
Transition
Screensaver
Alignment
18. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Headers & Footers
Personal Letter Format
Edit
Icon
19. 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.
Letters
CLOSE
Formula bar
Pointer
20. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Menu toolbar
Flyers
Apple/Mac
Scanner
21. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Reports
Copyright
AutoCorrect
Formula
22. A menu where you can search for anything that you need
Tables
Application software
Alignment
Look-up menu
23. Hypertext Markup Language. A standard of text markup conventions used for documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers interpret the codes to give the text structure and formatting (such as bold - blue - or italic).
HTML
Key tape
Prompt
MS Windows
24. This is the process where you copy something from another computer or the Internet - and save it on your computer.
Download
Mouse
Undo
index.html
25. Term used to describe the process of saving information to be used later
MAX
Worksheet tab
Filter
Store
26. More than one or something that can be multiplied
Undo
UNIVAC
Image
Multiple
27. 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.
ISP
Input device
Tables
CLOSE
28. 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.
User name
Hard copy
Recycle bin
Pointer
29. Turns computer on and off
On/Off
Recycle bin
Design
UNIVAC
30. Programs currently being worked on
index.html
Active programs
Analog
Edit
31. Term used in Microsoft Excel to describe a spreadsheet file
spacing
Workbook
Align
Floppy drive
32. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
Default
UNIVAC
Thesaurus
OS
33. An early operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Disc Operating System).
Organize
MS-DOS
Objects box/pane
Exported
34. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
Punched cards
Row
Text box
Num lock
35. Alternatively referred to as state - status is a term used to describe the current situation or mode the device or user currently is in.
HTML
Browser
Status bar
Storage
36. Exploring the Internet.
MS Windows
Auto Text
Note Pad
Surf
37. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
Screen
Create
Relationships
Integrated circuits
38. Alternatively referred to as the arithmetic mean - average is the sum of a series of numbers - divided by the total amount of numbers.
URL
AVERAGE
Hyperlink
Active programs
39. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Spam
Close box
Look-up menu
MEDIAN
40. The process of writing data to a storage medium such as a floppy diskette or a hard disk drive
Margins
Look-up menu
Power Point
SAVE
41. A paragraph style that creates a single list element - usually indicated by a 'bullet' character. This is also known as an 'unordered list.'
Insert/Type over
Operating system
CPU
Bulleted list
42. Term used to describe a software program that is intentionally installed on the computer by a user to monitor or spy on what other users of the same computer are doing.
Slide show
Design
WYSIWYG
Spy-ware
43. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Toggles
Default # worksheets
Animate
Symbol
44. Add - delete or change the contents of a cell or worksheet or file.
Line-spacing
Wizard
Edit
Start-up button
45. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Layout
Timing
Annotations
Column
46. The actual web page on the domain
Undo
index.html
Alignment
Menu toolbar
47. A general term used to describe what you see on your screen when you're using a computer. This may include video effects - tables - letters - or numbers.
EXIT
Clipart
Print
Display/Monitor
48. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Store
Icon
Spell Checker
Compact Disk
49. Sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes.
Relationships
Notepad
Fonts
Page Setup dialog box
50. Maximum
Menu - drop-down
Copyright
Tasks
MAX