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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 built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Display/Monitor
CPU
Function
Character
2. A little device that you move with your hand which then moves the cursor on the screen.
AVERAGE
Indicators
Mouse
Storage
3. A tab at the bottom left corner of a worksheet that has the worksheet name and other worksheets in the workbook
Default
Navigate
Virus
Worksheet tab
4. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
Program
Form
Animate
Objects box/pane
5. 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
Print
CA TV
Sort
6. A device that scans something that is flat and sends the image to the computer.
Scanner
Cell address/cell reference
Active worksheet
Virus
7. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Auto-number
Background
Mouse
Navigate
8. Term used to describe the location or folder that e-mail is received on the computer or a computer program
Symbol
Inbox
MS-DOS
Menu - drop-down
9. Hypertext Markup Language. A standard of text markup conventions used for documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers interpret the codes to give the text structure and formatting (such as bold - blue - or italic).
Num lock
Surf
HTML
Objects box/pane
10. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
Storage
OS
Number
Currency
11. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Keyboard
Undo
Default
Exported
12. 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
Query
AutoContent
Retrieve
13. Everything to the left except the date - closing - signature - typed name and senders address are to the middle semi-colon
Modified Block Letter Format
Icon
Word wrap
Forward
14. Sections of a document that are unused. White spaces help separate paragraphs of text - graphics and other portions of a document - and helps a document look less crowded.
Joystick
Inbox
spacing
Relationships
15. This is a small symbol or picture that represents a program or other things.
Screen
Monitor
MS Windows Tour
Icon
16. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Analyze
Placeholder
Hard copy
Receive
17. A paragraph style that creates a single list element - usually indicated by a 'bullet' character. This is also known as an 'unordered list.'
Bulleted list
Animate
Virus
Mouse
18. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.
MAX
Menu
Handouts
.xls
19. 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.
Spy-ware
Sent
HTTP
MS Word
20. A disk which is 5.25 inches in diameter - with a storage capacity of 143 K (the equivalent of about 70 pages of text).
Image
Default
Personal Letter Format
Floppy drive
21. 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
Objects box/pane
Hard drive
Workbook
22. A piece of paper used to advertise an event - company - etc.
Note Pad
Handouts
Output
Recycle bin
23. A box that allows a change of the format of text that affects the complete paragraph or is different from other paragraphs in a document.
Browser
Store
AutoContent
Paragraph dialog box
24. ...
Scroll Bars
Signature block
Smart Tag
Letters
25. A location where deleted files are temporarily stored on Apple Macintosh computers
Workbook
Trashcan
Blog
Retrieve
26. 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.
Analog
WWW
Imported
Blog
27. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Worksheet
Paint
DSL
Virus
28. 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
Hard copy
Date/Time control
Blog
29. A software program or program feature designed to locate misspelled words and notify the user of those misspelled words.
Spell Checker
Default # worksheets
Analyze
Dial-up
30. Pages that have instructions - questions - etc. that need to be numbered
Journal
Frame
Screensaver
Page Numbering
31. Alternatively referred to as the arithmetic mean - average is the sum of a series of numbers - divided by the total amount of numbers.
AVERAGE
Pointer
Multiple
Line-spacing
32. Any character that is not considered a number or symbol
Letters
Auto-number
Gridlines
Background
33. A discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Integrated circuits
Document
Design
Key tape
34. Extra programs
Ad-ware
Column
Annotations
Accessories programs
35. 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
Margins
Analyze
Operating system
Num lock
36. Receptacle for unwanted items
Active programs
Recycle bin
Edit
Symbol
37. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Monitor
Notes
Power Point
Built-in Styles
38. 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.
Gridlines
Refresh
Annotations
User name
39. A vertical or horizontal bar commonly located on the far right or bottom of a window that allows a user to move the window viewing area up - down - left - or right.
Document
URL
Scroll Bars
Auto-number
40. A character that is not a number or a letter
Symbol
Document
Desktop
Default
41. Software file that contains updated information and various fixes that resolves issues that have been located by the software developer to help prevent those errors from occurring in the future
Update
Toggles
Highlighting Tool
Default
42. An item that has been disposed of
Internet
Clipart
Toggles
Deleted items
43. The first calculation device
Demote
Scrolling
Abacus
Block Letter Format
44. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Search & Replace
Transition
Workbook
Date/Time control
45. 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)
Deleted items
ISP
Cell address/cell reference
Recycle bin
46. Exploring the Internet.
Animate
AVERAGE
Search & Replace
Surf
47. 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.
OS
GUI
Store
Forward
48. 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.
Calendar
Attach
Outline View
Close box
49. This is a picture or an image.
OPEN
Secondary storage device
Graphics
Dial-up
50. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Scrolling
Application software
Power Point
Send