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Computer Literacy
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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. Term used in Microsoft Excel to describe a spreadsheet file
Screensaver
Joystick
Workbook
Menu toolbar
2. A graphical or textual page that incorporates navigation hyperlinks to pages that are part of a web structure.
Monitor
Navigate
Number
Hard drive
3. Everything to the left except the date - closing - signature - typed name and senders address are to the middle semi-colon
GUI
WordPad
Modified Block Letter Format
Hard copy
4. 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).
Row
Caps lock
MS Windows Tour
.doc
5. Toolbar used to format documents
Sent
Formatting toolbar
index.html
Integrated circuits
6. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
Journal
Typeface & Font
Recycle bin
Navigate
7. Electronic hardware device or software capable of performing mathematical calculations
Objects box/pane
Save As
Calculator
Microphone
8. When referring to a network - a gateway is an address used as an entry point into another network
Letters
Gateway
Font dialog box
Display/Monitor
9. An item that has been disposed of
Deleted items
Text box
Filter
Outlook
10. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
WWW
Refresh
Abacus
Toggles
11. The cell in which you are working - indicated by the current location of the cell pointer.
Note Pad
Contacts
Active cell
Option
12. Completes the text for you
Sort
Auto Text
Database
Handouts
13. 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.
Date/Time control
Refresh
Display/Monitor
Clipart
14. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Flyers
Tables
Placeholder
Demote
15. A box that helps with the overall process of connecting and preparing a software program - hardware device or computer to function properly.
Setup dialog box
Line-spacing
AutoContent
Text box
16. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Paint
Margins
MIN
MAX
17. 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.
Calculator
Key tape
Hyperlink
Sent
18. A key that - when pressed in conjunction with another key - creates a special effect.
Smart Tag
Update
MIN
Option
19. Computer software that performs a task or set of tasks - such as word processing or drawing. Applications are also referred to as programs.
SUM
Undo
Application software
.doc
20. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Refresh
Menu - drop-down
Task-switching
.doc
21. Bar located along the top of a window or a dialog box that displays the name of the window or software program being used.
Change
Title bar
MS Windows
CPU
22. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
Notes
Function
Task panes
Tables
23. A software tool included with some word processors that provides synonyms for selected words on command
Screensaver
Computer output
Thesaurus
Fonts
24. This is a secret code to protect your data and can keep others from accessing your computer.
Query
Password
Web site
Range
25. The horizontal placement of cell contents - for example: left - center - or right. (spreadsheet application)
Align
Status bar
MEDIAN
GUI
26. Electronic signal that is sent as binary digits
Joystick
AVERAGE
URL
Digital
27. Alternatively referred to as the arithmetic mean - average is the sum of a series of numbers - divided by the total amount of numbers.
MEDIAN
AVERAGE
Alignment
Timing
28. Light or led that indicates the status of a hardware device
Indicators
Input
Look-up menu
Caps lock
29. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Hard copy
Note Pad
Web site
EXIT
30. A group of application programs - usually on one disk - designed to share data.
Workbook
Integrated circuits
Tasks
Joystick
31. The default document name in Excel
MAX
Borders
.xls
Start-up button
32. Alternatively referred to as a worksheet - a spreadsheet is a data file made up of rows and columns that are used to sort data and allow a user to manipulate and arrange data easily - commonly numerical data.
Calculate
Sub-menu
Worksheet
Page Setup dialog box
33. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Secondary storage device
Scanner
Inbox
Headers & Footers
34. When a machine - object etc. is capable of performing a task
Jump/Flash drive
Placeholder
Deleted items
Ready
35. The horizontal strip across the top of an application's window. Each word on the strip has a context sensitive drop-down menu containing features and actions that are available for the application in use.
Virus
Tables
Menu toolbar
Secondary storage device
36. Central Processing Unit. The brain of the computer.
Inbox
CPU
Surf
Default
37. 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.
Password
spacing
Web page
Smart Tag
38. 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.
Reports
Field
Scroll Bars
Signature block
39. A name - e-mail - or other personal information that enables other users to get a hold of someone
Digital
Analog
Ready
Contacts
40. This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files - like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Calculator
Browser
Note Pad
Caps lock
41. A Microsoft program
Command
OPEN
Send
MS Word
42. Side text that could be important later
Calendar
Objects box/pane
AutoCorrect
Notes
43. An image usually displayed at the top of a page in a Web site - containing text and design elements (often to identify the site).
Banners
Bulleted list
Timing
Command
44. A program that walks you through MS
Application software
Record
MS Windows Tour
Menu
45. Data that come out of a computer device. For example - information displayed on the monitor - sound from the speakers - and information printed to paper.
Output
Page Numbering
Secondary storage device
Number
46. Microsoft Office feature found in Microsoft Office 2002 (XP) - Office 2003 - and later versions that enables users to have quick access to common features - information - and commands.
Background
Task panes
Transition
Storage
47. A box that allows a change of the format of text that affects the complete paragraph or is different from other paragraphs in a document.
Menu - drop-down
Paragraph dialog box
UNIVAC
Scanner
48. Creating a new document or folder
Menu toolbar
Alignment
Menu - drop-down
Create
49. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Send
Workbook
Pointer
Internet
50. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Change
Font dialog box
Start-up button
Exported