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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. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Animate
Handouts
Drag & Drop
Refresh
2. 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
Template
Hard copy
File name
Cut - Copy & Paste
3. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Default
Create
Undo
CLOSE
4. 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.
Browser
Windows
EXIT
Outline View
5. A collection of similar information stored in a file - such as a database of addresses. This information may be created and stored in a database management system (DBMS).
Update
Database
Wizard
Change
6. 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
Layout
Software
URL
DSL
7. A key that - when pressed in conjunction with another key - creates a special effect.
Option
Highlighting Tool
.doc
Modem
8. Universal Automatic Computer the UNIVAC is an electrical computer containing thousands of vacuum tubes that utilizes punch cards and switches for inputting data and punch cards for outputting and storing data.
Wizard
UNIVAC
Desktop
Analyze
9. Everything to the left except the date - closing - signature - typed name and senders address are to the middle semi-colon
Clipart
Operating system
Default # worksheets
Modified Block Letter Format
10. This is where all the letters - numbers - and other buttons are located. When you type on it - the symbols appear on the monitor.
Keyboard
Frame
Timing
Borders
11. Extra programs
Accessories programs
Document
Attach
Refresh
12. The actual web page on the domain
Sub-menu
index.html
Dial-up
Web site
13. The end of a line of text. You can force a line break by pressing 'Return' - or you can let the application break lines for you. This is a special character that forces a new line on a page without creating a new paragraph.
Sort
Toggle Switches
Line-spacing
SUM
14. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Browser
E-mail
Trashcan
Document
15. An item that has been disposed of
Deleted items
SAVE
Active cell
Operating system
16. A Microsoft program
Promote
Highlighting Tool
MS Word
UNIVAC
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.
Design
Function
Output device
Attach
18. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Spam
Paint
Password
Scroll Bars
19. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Size & Style
Look-up menu
Sub-menu
Monitor
20. A menu where you can search for anything that you need
Close box
Sub-menu
Look-up menu
Gateway
21. Completes the text for you
Auto Text
Chart
Keyboard
Microphone
22. A tool box that allows you to change the font of text
Font dialog box
Analog
Column
Animate
23. ...
Keyboard
Default
Smart Tag
Scrolling
24. 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.
AutoCorrect
Insert & Delete
Prompt
CPU
25. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Letters
Promote
Annotations
Ready
26. Term used to describe the location or folder where e-mail is stored before being sent
Word wrap
Output
Sub-menu
Outbox
27. To move the visual portions of a screen up - down - left - or right - in order to see additional information on the monitor.
GUI
Column
Scrolling
Transition
28. This is all the instructions for the computer or a program designed to do different things. Examples are: Microsoft Word - Internet Explorer - and Windows.
Software
Slide show
Icon
Menu - drop-down
29. 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.
Record
Command
Program
File name
30. A tool used to make an indication that text or other object has been selected with the mouse or keyboard.
CA TV
Record
Highlighting Tool
UNIVAC
31. 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
Fonts
Update
Spreadsheet
ISP
32. Many computers that are connected like a web so you can see what other computer operators show you and you can show them things as well.
Demote
URL
Status bar
Internet
33. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Active worksheet
Demote
Grammar Checker
Update
34. E-mail software program by Microsoft that enables users to easily send and receive e-mail on their computer
Outlook
OS
Windows
Number
35. Viewing portion of a display
Undo
Menu - drop-down
Screen
Letters
36. 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)
Display/Monitor
Template
Formula
Spam
37. Magnetic tape drive capable of moving the tape through the tapes drive's read
Hard copy
Key tape
Sub-menu
Dial-up
38. Paper cards that have hand punched holes that contains data
Accessories programs
Paragraph dialog box
Punched cards
Sort
39. 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
Chart
Flyers
Web site
CTRL+ALT+DEL
40. What You See Is What You Get. When using most word processors - page layout programs (See desktop publishing) - and web page design programs - words and images will be displayed on the monitor as they will look on the printed page or web page.
Align
Operating system
Fonts
WYSIWYG
41. A word or character that causes the computer to do something. A command is a request or directions given to a computer.
Surf
Joystick
HTML
Command
42. 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.
Active programs
Format
Reports
User name
43. Copy of text stored on the computer and only accessible through the computer
Title bar
Modified Block Letter Format
Soft copy
Flyers
44. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Insert & Delete
Recycle bin
Gateway
Monitor
45. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
Timing
Annotations
Calendar
Forward
46. Sections of a document that are unused. White spaces help separate paragraphs of text - graphics and other portions of a document - and helps a document look less crowded.
Ad-ware
Auto-number
spacing
Internet
47. 3
Floppy drive
Default # worksheets
Keyboard
Block Letter Format
48. 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
Scanner
Receive
Borders
49. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Navigate
OS
Send
Formula bar
50. An operating environment created by MS provide an interface known as GUI for IBM compatible computers
Drag & Drop
Image
MS Windows
Page Numbering