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Computer Literacy
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Study First
Subjects
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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. Recording how long something takes
Column
Timing
Letters
Font dialog box
2. 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
Power Point
Currency
CPU
Update
3. A word or character that causes the computer to do something. A command is a request or directions given to a computer.
Refresh
Command
Ready
Secondary storage device
4. Cable TV
Download
Analog
Modified Block Letter Format
CA TV
5. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Joystick
Page Setup dialog box
Annotations
Microphone
6. 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.
Ad-ware
Copyright
Task panes
Calculator
7. Information that comes from a computer after it has been processed
Computer output
AutoContent
Hard copy
Outbox
8. This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files - like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Display/Monitor
Text box
Browser
Status bar
9. Toolbar used to format documents
Ready
Default
Formatting toolbar
Monitor
10. 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.
Menu - drop-down
UNIVAC
Pointer
DSL
11. The first calculation device
Abacus
Function
Internet
Drag & Drop
12. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Auto-number
Desktop
Spell Checker
Copyright
13. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Record
Function
Sent
Spy-ware
14. The process of moving data used in another program or earlier software version and moving it into another program or later version of the program.
Auto-number
Modified Block Letter Format
Merged
Imported
15. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
Journal
Gridlines
Menu - drop-down
Calculator
16. A tool box that allows you to change the font of text
Reports
Font dialog box
Function
Toggles
17. Row of boxes - often at the top of an application window that control various functions of the software
Toolbar
Align
Browser
Sort
18. The study and designing of products to help reduce the stress & make a product more comfortable to the user helping increase the users' productivity
Look-up menu
Ergonomics
Insert/Type over
Digital
19. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Notepad
SAVE
Line-spacing
Animate
20. The type and how big the text or object is
Size & Style
Wizard
Refresh
GUI
21. Add - delete or change the contents of a cell or worksheet or file.
Default
Edit
On/Off
Trashcan
22. Receptacle for unwanted items
Task-switching
Menu - drop-down
Web page
Recycle bin
23. To combine two or more files into a single file.
Exported
Word Art
Merged
Formula
24. A connection that is established using a modem
Flyers
Block Letter Format
Look-up menu
Dial-up
25. A peripheral device which allows users to play video games or computer games which demand fast reflexes and decision-making.
CLOSE
Task-switching
Joystick
Monitor
26. A device - such as a keyboard - stylus and tablet - mouse - puck - or microphone - that allows input of information (letters - numbers - sound - video) to a computer.
E-mail
Input device
Active worksheet
Worksheet tab
27. A paragraph style that creates a single list element - usually indicated by a 'bullet' character. This is also known as an 'unordered list.'
Punched cards
Promote
Bulleted list
Input
28. 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.'
Program
Borders
Create
Demote
29. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
Word Art
Function
WWW
Notes
30. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Search & Replace
Floppy drive
Analyze
Menu - drop-down
31. This is simply a way to send a message from one computer to another.
E-mail
Punched cards
Highlighting Tool
Outlook
32. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Analog
Highlighting Tool
Notepad
Password
33. 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.
Line-spacing
Worksheet
Field
OPEN
34. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
ISP
Refresh
Num lock
Demote
35. 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.
Word wrap
Drag & Drop
Setup dialog box
Attach
36. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Insert & Delete
Thesaurus
Menu
MS Windows Tour
37. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Auto-number
Desktop
CLOSE
Digital
38. A collection of icons - pictures - buttons and other useful image files along with sound and video files that can be embedded or inserted into web pages.
Clipart
Soft copy
Modified Block Letter Format
Chart
39. Alternatively referred to as malware - sneakware - or spyware - adware is a program installed without a user's consent or knowledge during the install of another program
Internet
Ad-ware
Spell Checker
Output
40. In mathematics - a sum is the total amount obtained from adding numbers
Page Setup dialog box
Relationships
Task panes
SUM
41. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Exported
Punched cards
Document
CTRL+ALT+DEL
42. Extra programs
AutoCorrect
Accessories programs
MEDIAN
Display/Monitor
43. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Row
Monitor
Form
Page Setup dialog box
44. Term used to describe the location or folder that e-mail is received on the computer or a computer program
Hard copy
Enter
MAX
Inbox
45. 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
Sort
Num lock
Modified Block Letter Format
Spell Checker
46. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Microphone
E-mail
Page Numbering
Headers & Footers
47. Allows equipment to handle information that continuously changes
Analog
Column
ISP
Sub-menu
48. Unique location identified by intersecting column and row coordinates. (spreadsheet application) -The address or name of a specific cell. Cell references may be used in formulas and are relative or absolute. (spreadsheet application)
Cell address/cell reference
CPU
Exported
WWW
49. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
MAX
Undo
Status bar
Alignment
50. 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.
Scrolling
Query
Prompt
Contacts