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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.
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. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Spam
Align
Monitor
Ad-ware
2. 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.
Typeface & Font
Paint
User name
Hard copy
3. Short for document
Formula
Compact Disk
.doc
Format
4. This is where all the letters - numbers - and other buttons are located. When you type on it - the symbols appear on the monitor.
Keyboard
Publish
Word wrap
Template
5. Term used to describe a software program that is intentionally installed on the computer by a user to monitor or spy on what other users of the same computer are doing.
Relationships
Task-switching
HTML
Spy-ware
6. 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.
Imported
CLOSE
UNIVAC
Joystick
7. The cell in which you are working - indicated by the current location of the cell pointer.
Active cell
Range
Menu toolbar
Print dialog box
8. Minimum
MIN
Microphone
Sort
Date/Time control
9. A device that scans something that is flat and sends the image to the computer.
Wizard
Database
Scanner
Paragraph dialog box
10. The first calculation device
User name
HTML
URL
Abacus
11. The worksheet currently being worked on or viewed
Address
Highlighting Tool
Merged
Active worksheet
12. Another name for the hard disc that stores information information in a computer.
Toolbar
Alignment
Slide show
Hard drive
13. This is a picture that pops up when you are not using your computer.
Timing
Slide show
Auto-number
Screensaver
14. 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.'
Toggles
Record
Program
Ergonomics
15. Where you advertise something
Promote
Windows
Handouts
Output
16. An early operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Disc Operating System).
Publish
.doc
EXIT
MS-DOS
17. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
AutoContent
Floppy drive
Recycle bin
Modified Block Letter Format
18. 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
Output
Ad-ware
AutoContent
Query
19. Receptacle for unwanted items
Transition
Date/Time control
Output
Recycle bin
20. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Formula bar
Auto-number
Record
Start-up button
21. A computer bridge is a device that connects two local-area networks (LANs) - or two segments of the same LAN.
Symbol
Bridge
AutoCorrect
Character
22. A term used to describe a software program or section of a program that is running in a multitasking environment.
Formatting toolbar
Personal Letter Format
Tasks
Align
23. This is a small symbol or picture that represents a program or other things.
Personal Letter Format
Icon
Output
Smart Tag
24. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Imported
Sort
Jump/Flash drive
Function
25. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
Microphone
CA TV
Background
Line-spacing
26. 3
Timing
Default # worksheets
Search & Replace
Operating system
27. 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
Soft copy
Microphone
Highlighting Tool
28. Where you send something in the past tense
Slide show
Sent
Grammar Checker
Contacts
29. The horizontal placement of cell contents - for example: left - center - or right. (spreadsheet application)
Align
Objects box/pane
DSL
Size & Style
30. A Microsoft program
Spam
OS
MS Word
Display/Monitor
31. A menu where you can search for anything that you need
Look-up menu
Page Setup dialog box
Row
Operating system
32. A set of programs that - among other things - controls the way information is loaded into memory - the way the computer works with that information - the way information is stored on a disk - and the way the computer communicates with a printer and o
Frame
Operating system
Analyze
Personal Letter Format
33. Light or led that indicates the status of a hardware device
Indicators
Abacus
Sent
HTTP
34. A tab at the bottom left corner of a worksheet that has the worksheet name and other worksheets in the workbook
Multiple
Hardware
Memos
Worksheet tab
35. A circuit board that you can install in a slot inside the computer to expand the computer's memory or give it the means to communicate with a peripheral device.
Grammar Checker
Word wrap
MS Windows
Cards
36. A software program or program feature designed to locate misspelled words and notify the user of those misspelled words.
Spell Checker
Retrieve
Formatting toolbar
Key tape
37. A peripheral device which allows users to play video games or computer games which demand fast reflexes and decision-making.
Toggles
Bridge
SUM
Joystick
38. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
Sub-menu
Template
Tables
Blog
39. Graphical User Interface. A system that simplifies selecting computer commands by enabling the user to point to symbols or illustrations (called icons) on the computer screen with a mouse.
Enter
Timing
GUI
Option
40. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Objects box/pane
Recycle bin
Bulleted list
Close box
41. 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.
Tables
Attach
Cards
Blog
42. A software tool included with some word processors that provides synonyms for selected words on command
Thesaurus
Close box
Memos
Num lock
43. 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.
Merged
Menu toolbar
Ad-ware
File name
44. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Column
Hard copy
Integrated circuits
Enter
45. 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
Joystick
Ad-ware
Memos
OS
46. Hardware peripheral that allows computer users to input audio into computers
Keyboard
Microphone
Function
Digital
47. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Outlook
Insert & Delete
Calendar
Receive
48. 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.
Desktop
Built-in Styles
EXIT
Hard drive
49. When a machine - object etc. is capable of performing a task
spacing
Caps lock
Ready
Screensaver
50. 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.
Store
Column
Page Setup dialog box
Surf