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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. Term used in Microsoft Excel to describe a spreadsheet file
Workbook
Character
Animate
Change
2. Where you get something
Accessories programs
Tables
Receive
Print dialog box
3. 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.
Currency
Computer output
Line-spacing
Search & Replace
4. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Navigate
Calculator
Wizard
Sort
5. A series of keys to unlock a screen
Gridlines
Line-spacing
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Form
6. Term used to describe the location or folder that e-mail is received on the computer or a computer program
Letters
Formula bar
Tables
Inbox
7. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Password
Document
WordPad
Pointer
8. A precise series of instructions written in a computer language that tells the computer what to do and how to do it. Programs are also called 'software' or 'applications.'
Calculator
Program
Tables
Output device
9. A software program or program feature designed to locate misspelled words and notify the user of those misspelled words.
Spell Checker
Enter
Frame
Monitor
10. 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.
Alignment
Relationships
Chart
Menu toolbar
11. The horizontal placement of cell contents - for example: left - center - or right. (spreadsheet application)
Imported
Send
Align
Update
12. The actual web page on the domain
index.html
Character
Undo
Outlook
13. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
Caps lock
Power Point
Spreadsheet
Spam
14. Graphical User Interface. A system that simplifies selecting computer commands by enabling the user to point to symbols or illustrations (called icons) on the computer screen with a mouse.
Image
GUI
Virus
Windows
15. Computer software that performs a task or set of tasks - such as word processing or drawing. Applications are also referred to as programs.
Key tape
Application software
ISP
Web page
16. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord
Paragraph dialog box
Option
Jump/Flash drive
Margins
17. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
MIN
Headers & Footers
SAVE
Virus
18. An item that has been disposed of
Deleted items
Menu - drop-down
Accessories programs
Save As
19. 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.
Calendar
Operating system
Outline View
MS Windows Tour
20. A menu where you can search for anything that you need
Surf
Calculator
WordPad
Look-up menu
21. Extra programs
Built-in Styles
Jump/Flash drive
Forward
Accessories programs
22. Document commonly written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that is accessible through the Internet or through another network using a browser
Record
Ad-ware
Web page
Layout
23. Something that can be accessed
Output
Image
OPEN
Page Setup dialog box
24. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Active cell
Monitor
CA TV
Toggle Switches
25. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
Sub-menu
Default
Calculator
Trashcan
26. This is simply a way to send a message from one computer to another.
Alignment
WYSIWYG
E-mail
Application software
27. 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.
Scroll Bars
Clipart
Spy-ware
Line-spacing
28. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
Setup dialog box
Chart
Transition
Typeface & Font
29. The process of writing data to a storage medium such as a floppy diskette or a hard disk drive
MS Word
SAVE
Page Setup dialog box
Program
30. In general - the term query is commonly used to describe a question or request that is made by a user or another computer or device
Currency
SAVE
Query
Output
31. A box that helps with the overall process of connecting and preparing a software program - hardware device or computer to function properly.
Default # worksheets
Send
Input device
Setup dialog box
32. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Formula bar
Organize
Deleted items
Option
33. A character that is not a number or a letter
Display/Monitor
Symbol
MS Word
index.html
34. When referring to a network - a gateway is an address used as an entry point into another network
Spreadsheet
File name
Ad-ware
Gateway
35. A tool used to make an indication that text or other object has been selected with the mouse or keyboard.
Application software
Update
Highlighting Tool
Calculate
36. This is a secret code to protect your data and can keep others from accessing your computer.
Password
Apple/Mac
Relationships
Query
37. Data that come out of a computer device. For example - information displayed on the monitor - sound from the speakers - and information printed to paper.
MS Windows
Output
Surf
Prompt
38. Used to advertise different programs or hotels etc.
Input device
Auto Text
Monitor
Brochures
39. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
WWW
Outbox
Insert/Type over
CLOSE
40. Toolbar used to format documents
Software
Operating system
Demote
Formatting toolbar
41. Maximum
Formula bar
Menu
MAX
Relationships
42. To combine two or more files into a single file.
Range
Program
Merged
MS Windows Tour
43. 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.
Search & Replace
Paragraph dialog box
Spy-ware
DSL
44. Term used to describe the process of saving information to be used later
Punched cards
Store
Input device
Notes
45. This is the process where you copy something from another computer or the Internet - and save it on your computer.
Auto-number
Download
Setup dialog box
Analog
46. Microsoft WordPad is a free rich text editor included with Microsoft Windows 95 - 98 - ME - NT - 2000 - XP - Vista - 7 - and future releases of Microsoft Windows.
Digital
spacing
Date/Time control
WordPad
47. Devices used to store massive amounts of information so that it can be readily retrieved. Devices include RAIDs - CD-ROMs - DVDs
Database
Look-up menu
Storage
Outbox
48. Allows equipment to handle information that continuously changes
Analog
Scrolling
Query
Mouse
49. Any character that is not considered a number or symbol
Letters
Function
Imported
Grammar Checker
50. The process of moving data used in another program or earlier software version and moving it into another program or later version of the program.
Imported
Insert/Type over
Word Art
Change