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Computer Literacy
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. A set of instructions that you enter in a cell to perform numeric calculations (adding - multiplying - averaging - etc.); for example - +A1+B1. (in spreadsheet applications)
Copyright
Auto Text
Form
Formula
2. A menu window that opens vertically on-screen to display context-related options. Also called pop-up menu or pull-down menu.
Option
Menu - drop-down
Font dialog box
Abacus
3. A computer bridge is a device that connects two local-area networks (LANs) - or two segments of the same LAN.
EXIT
Bridge
Toggle Switches
AutoContent
4. 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.
Setup dialog box
Formula bar
spacing
Size & Style
5. Magnetic tape drive capable of moving the tape through the tapes drive's read
Key tape
Internet
Toolbar
Auto-number
6. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Design
Multiple
Operating system
Tables
7. Automatically corrects misspellings on common typos
Software
Soft copy
AutoCorrect
URL
8. A vertical or horizontal bar commonly located on the far right or bottom of a window that allows a user to move the window viewing area up - down - left - or right.
Scroll Bars
Upload
Spam
Blog
9. When referring to a network - a gateway is an address used as an entry point into another network
Active worksheet
Gateway
Borders
E-mail
10. To combine two or more files into a single file.
Merged
Demote
Alignment
Default # worksheets
11. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Gateway
GUI
Close box
CA TV
12. A character that is not a number or a letter
Symbol
Format
Address
Row
13. 1) text-based applications - a way of designing the number of characters that fit on the computer's display. A column is one character wide. 2) In spread sheet applications - a column is a vertical arrangement of cells.
Document
Recycle bin
Active worksheet
Column
14. 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.
Input device
CPU
Outline View
Publish
15. 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.
Menu
Web site
Desktop
Spreadsheet
16. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
MIN
Clipart
Compact Disk
Reports
17. 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.
URL
ISP
Attach
Function
18. The address of documents and resources on the internet.
URL
Microphone
Memos
Query
19. 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
Sub-menu
Power Point
MS Windows
Retrieve
20. 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.
Display/Monitor
Update
Symbol
Sort
21. A character displayed on the screen to prompt the user to take some action. The most common prompt is the 'C prompt' in which the computer hard drive or 'C' requests directions on what the computer should perform next.
Prompt
MS-DOS
.xls
Hard copy
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.
Cell address/cell reference
DSL
Size & Style
Block Letter Format
23. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Digital
Copyright
Icon
Margins
24. A named sub-window of a frames page. This may be scrollable and resizable and may have a border or outline.
Banners
Frame
WYSIWYG
Password
25. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Image
Search & Replace
Hard drive
Save As
26. Completes the text for you
Update
Auto Text
Surf
Modified Block Letter Format
27. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.
Font dialog box
Demote
Relationships
Menu
28. Central Processing Unit. The brain of the computer.
CPU
Input
Default
Insert & Delete
29. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
Virus
Image
Forward
WordPad
30. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
User name
Analyze
Auto-number
Page Setup dialog box
31. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
WWW
Integrated circuits
Notepad
Frame
32. 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.
File name
Thesaurus
Fonts
Wizard
33. A location where deleted files are temporarily stored on Apple Macintosh computers
Trashcan
Tables
CA TV
Brochures
34. Everything to the Left alignment - semi-colon
Drag & Drop
Block Letter Format
Outlook
Contacts
35. Creating a new document or folder
Built-in Styles
Create
WYSIWYG
Block Letter Format
36. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Filter
Timing
Layout
Flyers
37. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
UNIVAC
AVERAGE
Menu toolbar
Document
38. The process of a computer transferring data to a computer printer and generating a hard copy of the electronic data being printed.
Bridge
Print
Forward
Scroll Bars
39. An item that has been disposed of
Edit
Forward
Spy-ware
Deleted items
40. Justify
Smart Tag
Alignment
Spy-ware
Start-up button
41. This is a secret code to protect your data and can keep others from accessing your computer.
Password
Toggles
Scanner
Paragraph dialog box
42. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Built-in Styles
Secondary storage device
Update
Page Numbering
43. Software that allows one to calculate numbers in a format that is similar to pages in a conventional ledger.
SAVE
Block Letter Format
Clipart
Spreadsheet
44. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
Relationships
OS
Borders
Forward
45. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
Chart
Formula
Output device
OPEN
46. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Compact Disk
Menu - drop-down
Navigate
Worksheet tab
47. This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files - like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Browser
Web page
Outline View
Animate
48. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Modified Block Letter Format
Placeholder
Analyze
Screen
49. The actual web page on the domain
Abacus
index.html
Auto-number
Search & Replace
50. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Scrolling
Exported
Floppy drive
Blog