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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 field or section of a page that enables a user to enter text
Text box
File name
Worksheet tab
Paragraph dialog box
2. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
Search & Replace
Journal
Cell address/cell reference
Image
3. 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.
Retrieve
Hyperlink
Ready
Thesaurus
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.
Formula bar
Frame
Signature block
Task panes
5. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord
Jump/Flash drive
Menu - drop-down
Template
Borders
6. 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.
Spreadsheet
Column
Analyze
Apple/Mac
7. Completes the text for you
Modified Block Letter Format
Auto Text
Bridge
Letters
8. Hypertext Transfer Protocol. A common system used to request and send HTML documents on the World Wide Web. It is the first portion of all URL addresses on the World Wide Web (e.g. - http://www.whitehouse.gov).
HTTP
Number
Storage
Frame
9. Where you send something in the past tense
Promote
Sent
Indicators
URL
10. Maximum
MAX
Frame
E-mail
Title bar
11. Bar located along the top of a window or a dialog box that displays the name of the window or software program being used.
Password
HTML
Soft copy
Title bar
12. Toolbar used to format documents
Formatting toolbar
Input
Attach
MEDIAN
13. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
Upload
Letters
Built-in Styles
Virus
14. Alternatively referred to as ANSI art - text art - or word art - ASCII art is the process of forming pictures or art out of the characters available in the ASCII chart
Signature block
CPU
Word Art
Blog
15. A device that scans something that is flat and sends the image to the computer.
Look-up menu
Update
Scanner
User name
16. A set of data-entry fields on a page processed on a server. The user submits the form by clicking on a button or image - and the form is sent by a form handler.
Form
Symbol
Ergonomics
Date/Time control
17. The process of transferring information from a computer to a web site (or other remote location on a network). v. To transfer information from a computer to a web site (or other remote location on a network).
Upload
Transition
Soft copy
Ergonomics
18. 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.
Graphics
AutoContent
Display/Monitor
Calculator
19. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Copyright
Monitor
Currency
Toggle Switches
20. A software tool included with some word processors that provides synonyms for selected words on command
Edit
Insert/Type over
Close box
Thesaurus
21. A piece of paper used to advertise an event - company - etc.
.xls
Handouts
Attach
Formatting toolbar
22. An item that has been disposed of
OS
Document
Deleted items
AVERAGE
23. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Virus
Organize
Send
Enter
24. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
index.html
Input
Organize
Update
25. 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.
Tasks
UNIVAC
Password
Workbook
26. 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.
Task panes
Wizard
EXIT
Form
27. Term commonly associated with computer CRT monitors - refresh refers to the renewal of the screen contents.
Undo
Refresh
Outbox
Smart Tag
28. A space reserved for a person's signature
Title bar
Password
Signature block
OPEN
29. Everything to the Left alignment - semi-colon
Publish
Auto Text
File name
Block Letter Format
30. Allows equipment to handle information that continuously changes
Brochures
Journal
Web page
Analog
31. 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.
Outline View
Blog
Field
Timing
32. Where you advertise something
.xls
Promote
Abacus
MS Windows
33. A weblog or blog - is a listing of text - images - or other objects that are arranged in a chronological order that first started appearing in 1998.
Blog
Reports
Look-up menu
Modified Block Letter Format
34. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
Calendar
Cards
Objects box/pane
Borders
35. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
Range
Relationships
Windows
Symbol
36. Where you get something
Smart Tag
Calculate
Clipart
Receive
37. In general - the term query is commonly used to describe a question or request that is made by a user or another computer or device
Query
Hard copy
Spam
Status bar
38. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
Spreadsheet
Output device
Formula bar
Analog
39. Another name for the hard disc that stores information information in a computer.
Banners
Hard drive
Filter
Analog
40. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
Default
Secondary storage device
Edit
Paragraph dialog box
41. A box that helps with the overall process of connecting and preparing a software program - hardware device or computer to function properly.
Send
Tables
Row
Setup dialog box
42. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Headers & Footers
Menu toolbar
Layout
Copyright
43. Computer software that performs a task or set of tasks - such as word processing or drawing. Applications are also referred to as programs.
Flyers
Keyboard
Application software
Input
44. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Floppy drive
Animate
Built-in Styles
Smart Tag
45. A connection that is established using a modem
Symbol
Forward
CLOSE
Dial-up
46. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Timing
Retrieve
Hard copy
Field
47. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Clipart
Borders
Annotations
MS-DOS
48. A term used to describe the process of searching for - locating and returning data.
Query
Retrieve
AVERAGE
Integrated circuits
49. A column in a table
Monitor
Margins
Field
Objects box/pane
50. A series of keys to unlock a screen
Exported
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Auto-number
Ad-ware