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Computer Literacy

Subjects : literacy, 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. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.






2. Completes the text for you






3. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else






4. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.






5. 3






6. A picture or graphics file that can be inserted on a web page and displayed in a browser.






7. The worksheet currently being worked on or viewed






8. This is where all the letters - numbers - and other buttons are located. When you type on it - the symbols appear on the monitor.






9. A key that can lock into place so that letters you type will come out capitalized. Caps Lock doesn't affect non-alphabetic keys (such as punctuation and symbols). To access these - you must still press the Shift key (on either side of the key board).






10. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0






11. The study and designing of products to help reduce the stress & make a product more comfortable to the user helping increase the users' productivity






12. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.






13. 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






14. The type of money used in a certain place






15. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.






16. The process of writing data to a storage medium such as a floppy diskette or a hard disk drive






17. 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.






18. A type of edging around a document






19. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information






20. The cell in which you are working - indicated by the current location of the cell pointer.






21. This is a small symbol or picture that represents a program or other things.






22. A series of keys to unlock a screen






23. Medium






24. A file that has been created with an overall layout and format to be used for a group of documents or a generic document.






25. 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






26. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord






27. More than one or something that can be multiplied






28. Term used to describe a menu that is contained within another menu






29. To reduce to a lower grade or rank






30. A portion of a computer display used in a graphical interface that enables users to select commands by pointing to illustrations or symbols with a mouse. 'Windows' is also the name Microsoft adopted for its popular operating system.






31. Computer company






32. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.






33. Copy: A command that copies the selected information and places it on the clipboard.cut: To remove text or graphics from a document by using the Cut command. The most recent 'clipping' is stored on the Clipboard of the computer so that you can paste






34. An image usually displayed at the top of a page in a Web site - containing text and design elements (often to identify the site).






35. Side text that could be important later






36. The location of a specific cell or range expressed by the coordinates of column and row; for example - A1. (spreadsheet application)






37. The physical and mechanical components of a computer system - such as the electronic circuitry - chips - monitor - disks - disk drives - keyboard - modem - and printer.






38. A weblog or blog - is a listing of text - images - or other objects that are arranged in a chronological order that first started appearing in 1998.






39. A set of programs that - among other things - controls the way information is loaded into memory - the way the computer works with that information - the way information is stored on a disk - and the way the computer communicates with a printer and o






40. Where the text is automatically entered






41. Programs currently being worked on






42. A box that helps with the overall process of connecting and preparing a software program - hardware device or computer to function properly.






43. Adding text to a document






44. A program that walks you through MS






45. Used to advertise different programs or hotels etc.






46. Central Processing Unit. The brain of the computer.






47. 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.'






48. Hypertext Markup Language. A standard of text markup conventions used for documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers interpret the codes to give the text structure and formatting (such as bold - blue - or italic).






49. 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.






50. A row in a table