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Computer Literacy
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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. Something that can be accessed
OPEN
Background
Store
Placeholder
2. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
Demote
Objects box/pane
Formula bar
Caps lock
3. 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
Mouse
Journal
Highlighting Tool
4. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Design
Range
Row
WWW
5. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
Memos
Drag & Drop
Default
Workbook
6. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Secondary storage device
Navigate
Grammar Checker
Design
7. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Personal Letter Format
SAVE
Display/Monitor
Placeholder
8. Minimum
MIN
Start-up button
Font dialog box
Undo
9. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Demote
Animate
Jump/Flash drive
Program
10. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
Memos
Note Pad
CA TV
Modified Block Letter Format
11. A key on the numeric keypad that confirms a choice or tells a program you're ready to proceed. In most cases - the Return key also serves this function. The ____ button is used to confirm an entry into an active cell. (in spreadsheet applications)
Alignment
User name
Change
Enter
12. E-mail software program by Microsoft that enables users to easily send and receive e-mail on their computer
Analyze
Relationships
Outlook
.xls
13. 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.
WWW
User name
Workbook
Refresh
14. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.
Microphone
AutoCorrect
Power Point
Menu
15. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
OS
Monitor
Ad-ware
Bridge
16. Software file that contains updated information and various fixes that resolves issues that have been located by the software developer to help prevent those errors from occurring in the future
Active programs
Update
Word wrap
Copyright
17. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Alignment
AVERAGE
CPU
Placeholder
18. Magnetic tape drive capable of moving the tape through the tapes drive's read
Formula
Retrieve
Key tape
WYSIWYG
19. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
Navigate
Imported
Output device
Exported
20. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Calendar
Undo
Operating system
Worksheet tab
21. This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files - like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
User name
MS Word
Browser
Search & Replace
22. The change from one thing to another
AutoCorrect
Transition
Headers & Footers
Slide show
23. Data laid out in a horizontal line in a table or spreadsheet
Gridlines
Row
Search & Replace
SUM
24. To move the visual portions of a screen up - down - left - or right - in order to see additional information on the monitor.
Abacus
Scrolling
Computer output
Outline View
25. 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.
Size & Style
Form
Attach
Insert/Type over
26. Internet Service Provider
Outlook
ISP
.xls
Calendar
27. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Toggles
Animate
Drag & Drop
Search & Replace
28. A group of application programs - usually on one disk - designed to share data.
Num lock
UNIVAC
Integrated circuits
Sort
29. A peripheral device which allows users to play video games or computer games which demand fast reflexes and decision-making.
Bulleted list
Virus
Output
Joystick
30. Computer company
Relationships
Row
Apple/Mac
GUI
31. A character that is not a number or a letter
Format
Ergonomics
Template
Symbol
32. An early operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Disc Operating System).
Create
MS-DOS
Analog
E-mail
33. Side text that could be important later
Copyright
Notes
AVERAGE
Menu
34. Any character that is not considered a number or symbol
Letters
Paragraph dialog box
Microphone
Title bar
35. Automatically corrects misspellings on common typos
Slide show
Program
File name
AutoCorrect
36. 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
Cards
Operating system
Ad-ware
Microphone
37. A device that scans something that is flat and sends the image to the computer.
Scanner
Ergonomics
Image
Mouse
38. A website - or web site - is a central location of various web pages that are all related and can be accessed by visiting the home page using a browser
Create
Notes
Web site
Deleted items
39. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
Tables
Design
Built-in Styles
Notes
40. A difference in the text
Task panes
Sort
Change
Spell Checker
41. A named sub-window of a frames page. This may be scrollable and resizable and may have a border or outline.
Memos
Secondary storage device
Frame
Headers & Footers
42. An item that has been disposed of
Deleted items
Scroll Bars
Word Art
Input
43. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Spreadsheet
Query
Insert/Type over
Insert & Delete
44. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
MS Word
Notepad
Auto Text
Organize
45. ...
Smart Tag
Bridge
E-mail
WordPad
46. A Microsoft program
MS Word
Ready
Field
Clipart
47. A piece of paper used to advertise an event - company - etc.
Handouts
Spam
Query
Formula bar
48. The study and designing of products to help reduce the stress & make a product more comfortable to the user helping increase the users' productivity
HTML
MS-DOS
Hard copy
Ergonomics
49. When referring to a network - a gateway is an address used as an entry point into another network
Objects box/pane
Annotations
Monitor
Gateway
50. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
Punched cards
Flyers
Journal
Inbox