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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. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
Background
Database
Copyright
Change
2. 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
Joystick
Built-in Styles
Grammar Checker
3. A box that helps you edit the parameters defined by the user that help determine how a printed page will appear.
OPEN
Page Setup dialog box
CPU
Word Art
4. The actual web page on the domain
index.html
Change
Smart Tag
Update
5. 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.
Change
Desktop
Icon
Menu
6. A file that has been created with an overall layout and format to be used for a group of documents or a generic document.
Template
Upload
Drag & Drop
Timing
7. The default document name in Excel
.xls
GUI
Toggles
Jump/Flash drive
8. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
Option
Background
OS
Title bar
9. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Download
Num lock
Calendar
Task-switching
10. The process of writing data to a storage medium such as a floppy diskette or a hard disk drive
Spell Checker
Computer output
Reports
SAVE
11. Data that come out of a computer device. For example - information displayed on the monitor - sound from the speakers - and information printed to paper.
Default
Cards
Soft copy
Output
12. To workout a mathematical equation
Calculate
Frame
Outlook
Font dialog box
13. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Toggle Switches
Publish
CA TV
Field
14. 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.
Blog
Punched cards
Document
Clipart
15. 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.
Page Setup dialog box
Task panes
Format
Annotations
16. 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
HTTP
Personal Letter Format
Power Point
MIN
17. Shows the date & time & lets you set the clock
Built-in Styles
Page Setup dialog box
Note Pad
Date/Time control
18. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
E-mail
Pointer
Sort
Formatting toolbar
19. 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.
Merged
Form
Default # worksheets
Active cell
20. 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.
Display/Monitor
Active cell
Column
DSL
21. A similarity between different objects - documents - etc.
Start-up button
Relationships
Web page
E-mail
22. Computer software that performs a task or set of tasks - such as word processing or drawing. Applications are also referred to as programs.
Application software
Cell address/cell reference
Address
MS Windows Tour
23. This is a picture that pops up when you are not using your computer.
Junk
Menu toolbar
Calculator
Screensaver
24. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Form
AutoContent
Formula bar
Animate
25. Where the text is automatically entered
AutoContent
Contacts
Send
Design
26. A difference in the text
Edit
SAVE
Update
Change
27. A feature that steps the user through the installation or setup of a software program or hardware device
Download
E-mail
Number
Wizard
28. A series of keys to unlock a screen
Worksheet tab
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Modem
Chart
29. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Upload
Font dialog box
Input
Send
30. Term used to describe the process of saving information to be used later
Relationships
Store
CPU
Windows
31. Adding text to a document
CA TV
Pointer
Insert/Type over
Demote
32. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
HTTP
Output device
AutoCorrect
Soft copy
33. A file or view of data formatted in a way that allows the user to see a large amount of data quickly from documents or a database.
Digital
Image
Reports
Hard drive
34. Any character that is not considered a number or symbol
Default # worksheets
Change
Letters
Monitor
35. A design that defines the overall look of characters
Typeface & Font
Bulleted list
Bridge
Tables
36. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Field
Screensaver
Page Setup dialog box
Organize
37. Automatically corrects misspellings on common typos
Multiple
AutoCorrect
Computer output
Download
38. A software tool included with some word processors that provides synonyms for selected words on command
Analyze
Brochures
Thesaurus
OPEN
39. A tab at the bottom left corner of a worksheet that has the worksheet name and other worksheets in the workbook
Outlook
Worksheet tab
Mouse
Filter
40. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Key tape
Indicators
Document
MS-DOS
41. 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.
Attach
Relationships
Image
Calendar
42. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0
Insert & Delete
Number
Wizard
Hard copy
43. Row of boxes - often at the top of an application window that control various functions of the software
.doc
Line-spacing
Web page
Toolbar
44. 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
Ad-ware
Contacts
Upload
Insert & Delete
45. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Placeholder
Surf
Analog
AutoContent
46. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
MS-DOS
Calendar
Tables
Flyers
47. An image usually displayed at the top of a page in a Web site - containing text and design elements (often to identify the site).
MS Windows Tour
Desktop
Contacts
Banners
48. To move the visual portions of a screen up - down - left - or right - in order to see additional information on the monitor.
Scrolling
Database
.xls
Virus
49. A column in a table
Spam
Background
Dial-up
Field
50. Information that comes from a computer after it has been processed
Computer output
Formula
Wizard
Accessories programs