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Computer Literacy
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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. Short for document
Monitor
Reports
Forward
.doc
2. A tool used to make an indication that text or other object has been selected with the mouse or keyboard.
Blog
Promote
Print dialog box
Highlighting Tool
3. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
ISP
Copyright
Function
SUM
4. 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.
Banners
Key tape
Clipart
Deleted items
5. A column in a table
Screen
Signature block
Field
Transition
6. E-mail software program by Microsoft that enables users to easily send and receive e-mail on their computer
Outlook
WWW
Sort
Address
7. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
Background
E-mail
Toolbar
Web site
8. When a machine - object etc. is capable of performing a task
Ready
Secondary storage device
On/Off
Sub-menu
9. Sections of a document that are unused. White spaces help separate paragraphs of text - graphics and other portions of a document - and helps a document look less crowded.
Menu - drop-down
Title bar
spacing
Edit
10. Hardware peripheral that allows computer users to input audio into computers
Headers & Footers
Microphone
Chart
SUM
11. The horizontal placement of cell contents - for example: left - center - or right. (spreadsheet application)
Frame
Placeholder
Align
HTTP
12. Styles of text already in MS
Built-in Styles
Insert & Delete
Retrieve
index.html
13. A peripheral device which allows users to play video games or computer games which demand fast reflexes and decision-making.
Joystick
Sort
Dial-up
Sent
14. Something that can be accessed
Modem
Print dialog box
CLOSE
OPEN
15. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Status bar
Outline View
Recycle bin
Undo
16. Cable TV
Hard drive
CA TV
Wizard
Chart
17. 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)
Calculator
Objects box/pane
Formula
Option
18. Creating a new document or folder
Banners
Create
Download
MEDIAN
19. To combine two or more files into a single file.
Merged
Gridlines
Form
Formula bar
20. The study and designing of products to help reduce the stress & make a product more comfortable to the user helping increase the users' productivity
Create
Ergonomics
Virus
On/Off
21. A program that walks you through MS
Prompt
Store
Storage
MS Windows Tour
22. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Contacts
Navigate
Cards
Secondary storage device
23. A piece of paper used to advertise an event - company - etc.
Integrated circuits
Word Art
Application software
Handouts
24. Completes the text for you
Spam
Command
Auto Text
Num lock
25. An early operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Disc Operating System).
MS-DOS
Virus
Title bar
Jump/Flash drive
26. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
Spell Checker
Copyright
Spy-ware
Note Pad
27. 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.
Document
Cards
GUI
Layout
28. Unique location identified by intersecting column and row coordinates. (spreadsheet application) -The address or name of a specific cell. Cell references may be used in formulas and are relative or absolute. (spreadsheet application)
Paragraph dialog box
Navigate
UNIVAC
Cell address/cell reference
29. The horizontal strip across the top of an application's window. Each word on the strip has a context sensitive drop-down menu containing features and actions that are available for the application in use.
Formula bar
Menu toolbar
MS Windows Tour
Junk
30. Extra programs
Smart Tag
Accessories programs
Grammar Checker
Num lock
31. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Organize
Built-in Styles
Password
Modem
32. A software program or program feature designed to locate misspelled words and notify the user of those misspelled words.
Spell Checker
MAX
SAVE
Num lock
33. A vertical or horizontal bar commonly located on the far right or bottom of a window that allows a user to move the window viewing area up - down - left - or right.
Screen
Scroll Bars
Title bar
Toolbar
34. Term used to describe the location or folder where e-mail is stored before being sent
Outbox
Align
Bulleted list
Web page
35. A box that allows you to close a document or window
AutoContent
Outlook
Close box
Windows
36. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
Display/Monitor
Joystick
Default
Password
37. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
MS-DOS
Look-up menu
Paragraph dialog box
Print
38. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
WWW
SUM
Borders
Flyers
39. To do this - you click on something and hold the button down. This will move the object you clicked on and will leave it where you let go of the button. So it drags it and drops it.
Character
Spell Checker
Drag & Drop
CTRL+ALT+DEL
40. The worksheet currently being worked on or viewed
Active worksheet
Update
Computer output
Recycle bin
41. Row of boxes - often at the top of an application window that control various functions of the software
Toolbar
CPU
Scroll Bars
Bridge
42. The physical division of space on a disk into sections--where information can be stored. A disk's format is established as part of the initialization process.
Format
Modem
Screensaver
Line-spacing
43. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Spreadsheet
Tables
Organize
Default
44. This is a picture or an image.
Operating system
Letters
Graphics
Cards
45. Bar located along the top of a window or a dialog box that displays the name of the window or software program being used.
Title bar
Smart Tag
MS Word
Note Pad
46. Where you advertise something
Abacus
Command
Promote
Status bar
47. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
OS
Note Pad
Compact Disk
Chart
48. Add - delete or change the contents of a cell or worksheet or file.
Placeholder
Wizard
Edit
Default
49. 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.
Thesaurus
WYSIWYG
Smart Tag
Receive
50. A field or section of a page that enables a user to enter text
Text box
Publish
Toolbar
Insert & Delete