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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. The overall appearance of a document - image - text or other medium designed to be more appeasing to the viewer or help locate or identify the medium being looked at
Input
Spam
Layout
MS Windows Tour
2. Receptacle for unwanted items
Menu
Character
Recycle bin
Thesaurus
3. Turns computer on and off
On/Off
Page Numbering
Num lock
Key tape
4. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
Store
Date/Time control
Create
Forward
5. An image usually displayed at the top of a page in a Web site - containing text and design elements (often to identify the site).
Promote
Frame
Calculate
Banners
6. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Copyright
Compact Disk
Flyers
Number
7. 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
Modem
Num lock
Memos
Tables
8. Another name for the hard disc that stores information information in a computer.
Record
Promote
Hard drive
Workbook
9. 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.
Reports
Monitor
Trashcan
Ready
10. Alternatively referred to as malware - sneakware - or spyware - adware is a program installed without a user's consent or knowledge during the install of another program
Ad-ware
Form
Storage
Refresh
11. When a machine - object etc. is capable of performing a task
Download
Key tape
Ready
Bulleted list
12. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Brochures
Web page
AutoContent
Exported
13. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Receive
Number
Send
Desktop
14. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Active programs
Auto-number
Background
Smart Tag
15. Shows the date & time & lets you set the clock
Blog
Date/Time control
Ergonomics
index.html
16. When referring to a network - a gateway is an address used as an entry point into another network
Hard drive
Gateway
WWW
MIN
17. Electronic hardware device or software capable of performing mathematical calculations
CLOSE
Annotations
Navigate
Calculator
18. Data that goes into a computer device.
Key tape
Input
Filter
Timing
19. Where you get something
Flyers
Receive
Browser
Spy-ware
20. The actual web page on the domain
Web page
index.html
Hard drive
CTRL+ALT+DEL
21. Term used in Microsoft Excel to describe a spreadsheet file
Paragraph dialog box
Blog
Workbook
Secondary storage device
22. Term used to describe the location or folder that e-mail is received on the computer or a computer program
Inbox
Option
Update
Undo
23. 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
Bridge
Query
Input device
Option
24. ...
Joystick
Smart Tag
AutoCorrect
Banners
25. 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.
Desktop
Windows
Default
User name
26. 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.
Abacus
Notepad
Scroll Bars
Cards
27. In general a range refers to a series of value between two other values
Save As
Range
.xls
Calculator
28. Maximum
Banners
SUM
Demote
MAX
29. A series of keys to unlock a screen
Database
Screen
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Search & Replace
30. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
ISP
Formula
Punched cards
Bulleted list
31. Allows equipment to handle information that continuously changes
GUI
Analog
Demote
Flyers
32. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Virus
Sort
Secondary storage device
Symbol
33. A peripheral device which allows users to play video games or computer games which demand fast reflexes and decision-making.
Address
Abacus
Joystick
Dial-up
34. The process of launching the web page into the public for use.
CLOSE
Design
UNIVAC
Publish
35. A term used to describe a software program or section of a program that is running in a multitasking environment.
Range
Tasks
Active worksheet
Floppy drive
36. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Floppy drive
Notepad
Active cell
Navigate
37. This is a picture or an image.
Promote
Key tape
Update
Graphics
38. Where you advertise something
Character
Promote
File name
Download
39. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Trashcan
Caps lock
Gateway
Placeholder
40. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Merged
Floppy drive
Storage
Multiple
41. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
Chart
Program
Merged
Virus
42. A note added by way of comment or explanation
MS Windows
Print dialog box
Hyperlink
Annotations
43. An item that has been disposed of
Deleted items
Date/Time control
Analyze
ISP
44. Computer company
Surf
Clipart
Sent
Apple/Mac
45. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Annotations
Organize
Spy-ware
Hard drive
46. 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.
Frame
Align
Print dialog box
Relationships
47. Short for document
Highlighting Tool
Line-spacing
Relationships
.doc
48. 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
Size & Style
Signature block
Outline View
49. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Refresh
Undo
MS-DOS
Punched cards
50. Recording how long something takes
Timing
Inbox
Download
Paint