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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. This is where all the letters - numbers - and other buttons are located. When you type on it - the symbols appear on the monitor.
Smart Tag
Keyboard
Word wrap
Publish
2. A group of application programs - usually on one disk - designed to share data.
Microphone
Integrated circuits
Highlighting Tool
Forward
3. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Web site
Compact Disk
Date/Time control
Sub-menu
4. Add - delete or change the contents of a cell or worksheet or file.
Document
Power Point
Edit
MS Word
5. 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.
Note Pad
Display/Monitor
File name
Layout
6. This is a secret code to protect your data and can keep others from accessing your computer.
Ready
Slide show
Punched cards
Password
7. 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
Sent
Store
Analyze
Ad-ware
8. Medium
MEDIAN
E-mail
Handouts
Notepad
9. The study and designing of products to help reduce the stress & make a product more comfortable to the user helping increase the users' productivity
Drag & Drop
Ergonomics
Print dialog box
Hard drive
10. Completes the text for you
Icon
Floppy drive
Ready
Auto Text
11. 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.
Indicators
Reports
Modified Block Letter Format
Input device
12. 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.
Timing
GUI
Journal
Active worksheet
13. A feature that steps the user through the installation or setup of a software program or hardware device
Update
Insert & Delete
Wizard
Scanner
14. 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
Change
E-mail
MS Windows Tour
15. The horizontal placement of cell contents - for example: left - center - or right. (spreadsheet application)
Banners
Query
Software
Align
16. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
Status bar
Relationships
E-mail
Brochures
17. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Web page
Start-up button
Task-switching
Graphics
18. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information
Deleted items
Caps lock
Start-up button
Word Art
19. Light or led that indicates the status of a hardware device
Indicators
Title bar
Download
Reports
20. 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.
Query
Slide show
Hyperlink
User name
21. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Blog
Floppy drive
UNIVAC
Field
22. Digital Subscriber Line. A method of connecting to the Internet via a phone line. A DSL connection uses copper telephone lines but is able to relay data at much higher speeds than modems and does not interfere with telephone use.
Attach
Spreadsheet
Borders
DSL
23. A difference in the text
Enter
Change
Signature block
Row
24. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Calendar
Compact Disk
Default
Enter
25. The name you give your file or document before you save it on a disk. This name should help you identify and retrieve this file.
Personal Letter Format
Default # worksheets
File name
Caps lock
26. In mathematics - a sum is the total amount obtained from adding numbers
Abacus
Num lock
Typeface & Font
SUM
27. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Block Letter Format
Blog
AutoCorrect
Annotations
28. Term used to describe a menu that is contained within another menu
Update
Toggles
Download
Sub-menu
29. To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis
Worksheet
SAVE
CLOSE
Analyze
30. ...
Pointer
Smart Tag
Refresh
Deleted items
31. A minor show offered in addition to a main exhibition
Frame
CA TV
Database
Slide show
32. 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
Indicators
UNIVAC
Layout
Desktop
33. Programs currently being worked on
Outbox
Setup dialog box
Tasks
Active programs
34. A term used to describe a software program or section of a program that is running in a multitasking environment.
Tasks
MS Windows Tour
Hard copy
CA TV
35. Row of boxes - often at the top of an application window that control various functions of the software
Text box
Num lock
Windows
Toolbar
36. A connection that is established using a modem
Junk
Undo
Dial-up
Screensaver
37. A program that walks you through MS
Compact Disk
UNIVAC
MS Windows Tour
Title bar
38. Where you send something in the past tense
Punched cards
Grammar Checker
Sent
Task panes
39. This is a picture or an image.
WordPad
Outbox
Blog
Graphics
40. Horizontal lines within a chart that make the chart easier to read.
Document
SAVE
Currency
Gridlines
41. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
AutoContent
Default
Worksheet
Web page
42. 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.'
Workbook
MS-DOS
Cut - Copy & Paste
Program
43. 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.
Application software
Outline View
Spell Checker
Program
44. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
Active programs
Spell Checker
Tables
Document
45. This is simply a way to send a message from one computer to another.
Display/Monitor
E-mail
Monitor
Flyers
46. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Headers & Footers
MS Windows Tour
Spy-ware
Digital
47. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
Print
OS
Drag & Drop
HTTP
48. To workout a mathematical equation
EXIT
Integrated circuits
Calculate
Ad-ware
49. A field or section of a page that enables a user to enter text
Text box
Word wrap
Range
AVERAGE
50. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Screensaver
Output device
Monitor
EXIT