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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 rectangular area - above the worksheet window - that displays a cell's contents - including numbers - text - and formulas - when you click a cell. You can use the formula bar to enter and edit data in the active cell.
Font dialog box
Task-switching
Formula bar
Bridge
2. The type of money used in a certain place
MEDIAN
Menu - drop-down
Transition
Currency
3. Alternatively referred to as UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) - spam - not to be confused with the meat product - is slang commonly used to describe junk e-mail on the Internet.
Junk
Screensaver
Auto Text
EXIT
4. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Command
Sort
Insert & Delete
Organize
5. A peripheral device which allows users to play video games or computer games which demand fast reflexes and decision-making.
Joystick
Outlook
Junk
Worksheet
6. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Worksheet tab
Row
.xls
Auto-number
7. Creating a new document or folder
Create
Virus
Application software
Auto-number
8. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Demote
Undo
Receive
Apple/Mac
9. Side text that could be important later
Objects box/pane
Power Point
SUM
Notes
10. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Flyers
Edit
Personal Letter Format
Notepad
11. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Built-in Styles
Task-switching
MS Word
Calculator
12. 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.
CTRL+ALT+DEL
WordPad
Software
Timing
13. The process of writing data to a storage medium such as a floppy diskette or a hard disk drive
Organize
Promote
Sub-menu
SAVE
14. Everything to the left except the date - closing - signature - typed name and senders address are to the middle semi-colon
Letters
Modified Block Letter Format
Formatting toolbar
Command
15. The location of a specific cell or range expressed by the coordinates of column and row; for example - A1. (spreadsheet application)
Retrieve
Align
Note Pad
Address
16. Space separating text or other elements from the edge of the paper commonly adjusted through the page setup.
Margins
User name
Outline View
Monitor
17. 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.
Page Numbering
Jump/Flash drive
Text box
Cards
18. Term used to describe the location or folder that e-mail is received on the computer or a computer program
Save As
Demote
Inbox
Chart
19. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Form
Input device
Headers & Footers
Outline View
20. This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files - like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
HTTP
UNIVAC
Grammar Checker
Browser
21. Viewing portion of a display
Wizard
Screen
Background
Borders
22. Where you advertise something
Promote
Record
Timing
Operating system
23. 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.
MEDIAN
Spy-ware
Column
Browser
24. A tool box that allows you to change the font of text
Spam
Digital
Fonts
Font dialog box
25. Completes the text for you
Margins
User name
.xls
Auto Text
26. The first calculation device
Change
Abacus
Desktop
Auto-number
27. Alternatively referred to as the arithmetic mean - average is the sum of a series of numbers - divided by the total amount of numbers.
Caps lock
AVERAGE
MS Windows Tour
Menu
28. Horizontal lines within a chart that make the chart easier to read.
Headers & Footers
Start-up button
Screen
Gridlines
29. Receptacle for unwanted items
Download
Formula
Smart Tag
Recycle bin
30. Another name for the hard disc that stores information information in a computer.
Formula bar
Upload
Jump/Flash drive
Hard drive
31. Microsoft software presentation program that allows a user to create a slide show of important notes that can be easily shown and moved through during a presentation
Attach
Pointer
Power Point
Close box
32. Computer company
Apple/Mac
Page Setup dialog box
Menu
Sub-menu
33. Something that can be accessed
Highlighting Tool
OPEN
Junk
Default
34. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Signature block
Modem
Mouse
Calendar
35. Minimum
Formatting toolbar
MIN
Layout
Spreadsheet
36. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Output
Hard copy
Compact Disk
Align
37. A term used to describe the process of organizing data in a particular order allowing for information to be found easier
spacing
Auto-number
Output
Sort
38. Justify
Alignment
Recycle bin
.doc
Worksheet tab
39. A row in a table
Accessories programs
Record
Punched cards
Output device
40. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord
Active cell
Edit
Jump/Flash drive
Power Point
41. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
GUI
Pointer
Frame
Imported
42. This is the screen that appears if you are not browsing the Internet - reading a file - or playing a game. Your icons are on this screen.
Design
Desktop
Hyperlink
Operating system
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.
OS
Built-in Styles
Task panes
Outline View
44. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Print
Sent
Exported
User name
45. A name - e-mail - or other personal information that enables other users to get a hold of someone
Toolbar
Contacts
Smart Tag
MS Word
46. Term used to describe the location or folder where e-mail is stored before being sent
Title bar
Outbox
Spell Checker
Letters
47. Term used to describe the process of switching back and forth between settings or between programs
Outbox
Symbol
Output
Toggles
48. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
Num lock
Computer output
WWW
Formula bar
49. 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
Imported
Memos
E-mail
Num lock
50. Pages that have instructions - questions - etc. that need to be numbered
Option
Ergonomics
Page Numbering
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