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Computer Literacy
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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. A program that walks you through MS
MS Windows Tour
Command
Change
Contacts
2. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
Modem
Word wrap
Objects box/pane
Scroll Bars
3. Cable TV
Virus
MAX
Punched cards
CA TV
4. Something that can be accessed
OPEN
Demote
Publish
Menu
5. 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.
Internet
Command
Power Point
Monitor
6. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Flyers
Active cell
Floppy drive
Browser
7. A portable drive that connects to a USB cord
OS
Animate
Graphics
Jump/Flash drive
8. Text that appears at the top and bottom of every page or every other page of a document.
Print dialog box
Headers & Footers
Formula bar
Attach
9. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
WWW
Cut - Copy & Paste
Design
Imported
10. Software that allows one to calculate numbers in a format that is similar to pages in a conventional ledger.
Software
Wizard
OS
Spreadsheet
11. Used to advertise different programs or hotels etc.
Forward
Brochures
Hard drive
File name
12. 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.
Handouts
Sort
Menu toolbar
Active worksheet
13. To move the visual portions of a screen up - down - left - or right - in order to see additional information on the monitor.
ISP
Scrolling
CA TV
Analyze
14. 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).
Database
Design
Surf
.xls
15. Magnetic tape drive capable of moving the tape through the tapes drive's read
Spell Checker
Key tape
Upload
Abacus
16. 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.
Option
Range
Attach
Active programs
17. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Calendar
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Input
Slide show
18. Add - delete or change the contents of a cell or worksheet or file.
Num lock
Grammar Checker
Apple/Mac
Edit
19. The change from one thing to another
SUM
Transition
Chart
Document
20. The location of a specific cell or range expressed by the coordinates of column and row; for example - A1. (spreadsheet application)
Text box
Toolbar
Address
Floppy drive
21. 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
Cut - Copy & Paste
Cell address/cell reference
Internet
Field
22. 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)
Modified Block Letter Format
Formula
Layout
Typeface & Font
23. Information that comes from a computer after it has been processed
Sent
Journal
UNIVAC
Computer output
24. Space separating text or other elements from the edge of the paper commonly adjusted through the page setup.
Virus
Margins
Edit
Design
25. Recording how long something takes
Timing
Compact Disk
Indicators
Typeface & Font
26. A tool used to make an indication that text or other object has been selected with the mouse or keyboard.
Outbox
Highlighting Tool
Toggles
Auto Text
27. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information
Toolbar
Start-up button
Key tape
Cell address/cell reference
28. 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.
User name
OS
Windows
Annotations
29. Everything to the left except the date - closing - signature - typed name and senders address are to the middle semi-colon
Modified Block Letter Format
Computer output
Line-spacing
spacing
30. This is a picture that pops up when you are not using your computer.
Print dialog box
Screensaver
Internet
Organize
31. More than one or something that can be multiplied
OPEN
Monitor
Multiple
Word wrap
32. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Toggle Switches
Keyboard
Demote
Brochures
33. 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
Headers & Footers
Active programs
Prompt
Word Art
34. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Calculate
Notepad
Save As
Close box
35. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
AVERAGE
Signature block
Borders
Copyright
36. 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).
Imported
HTTP
Drag & Drop
Document
37. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Placeholder
Address
Default # worksheets
Animate
38. A box that allows you to close a document or window
AVERAGE
Close box
Input device
Analog
39. Electronic hardware device or software capable of performing mathematical calculations
Indicators
Calculator
AVERAGE
URL
40. A menu where you can search for anything that you need
Handouts
Annotations
Look-up menu
Change
41. This is all the instructions for the computer or a program designed to do different things. Examples are: Microsoft Word - Internet Explorer - and Windows.
WWW
Software
Ready
Toolbar
42. A tab at the bottom left corner of a worksheet that has the worksheet name and other worksheets in the workbook
Letters
Number
Worksheet tab
Brochures
43. Automatically corrects misspellings on common typos
AutoCorrect
Block Letter Format
Promote
Notepad
44. A tool that converts an image or a file.
Analog
Scrolling
Filter
Paragraph dialog box
45. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
Outbox
Forward
AutoContent
Highlighting Tool
46. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Reports
Task-switching
Caps lock
User name
47. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Block Letter Format
Document
Task-switching
Merged
48. Term used to describe the location or folder that e-mail is received on the computer or a computer program
Inbox
Annotations
Objects box/pane
Copyright
49. 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.
Desktop
Prompt
WYSIWYG
Print
50. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Start-up button
Exported
Retrieve
Abacus