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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. Pages that have instructions - questions - etc. that need to be numbered
Row
Page Numbering
Task panes
Dial-up
2. 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
Num lock
Template
Mouse
Publish
3. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Auto-number
Password
Margins
Bridge
4. A connection that is established using a modem
Junk
Auto Text
Dial-up
Function
5. Data that come out of a computer device. For example - information displayed on the monitor - sound from the speakers - and information printed to paper.
Exported
UNIVAC
Output device
Output
6. This is a picture or an image.
Hyperlink
Graphics
MS-DOS
Toggles
7. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Auto-number
Organize
Look-up menu
Symbol
8. 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.
Option
Internet
Imported
.doc
9. A generic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that enables someone to open and read plaintext files
Notepad
Template
Note Pad
index.html
10. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Personal Letter Format
Auto-number
Mouse
Inbox
11. 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.
Cell address/cell reference
Setup dialog box
Spam
spacing
12. Everything to the Left alignment - semi-colon
Built-in Styles
Modem
MS Windows
Block Letter Format
13. A key that - when pressed in conjunction with another key - creates a special effect.
Menu
Option
Headers & Footers
Auto-number
14. The address of documents and resources on the internet.
Merged
Input device
Toggle Switches
URL
15. To do this - you click on something and hold the button down. This will move the object you clicked on and will leave it where you let go of the button. So it drags it and drops it.
Caps lock
Search & Replace
Task panes
Drag & Drop
16. A software program or program feature sometimes found in a program such as a word processor that can be used to help check text for any improper grammar.
Jump/Flash drive
Grammar Checker
Imported
Smart Tag
17. Where you get something
Formatting toolbar
Row
index.html
Receive
18. This is all the instructions for the computer or a program designed to do different things. Examples are: Microsoft Word - Internet Explorer - and Windows.
Headers & Footers
Auto-number
Software
CTRL+ALT+DEL
19. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
Calendar
Keyboard
Formula
Form
20. Viewing portion of a display
Gateway
Hardware
Screen
Send
21. The overall appearance of a document - image - text or other medium designed to be more appeasing to the viewer or help locate or identify the medium being looked at
Image
Query
Update
Layout
22. 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.
Column
Punched cards
Print
Paragraph dialog box
23. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Journal
Cards
Display/Monitor
Send
24. 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)
On/Off
Formula
Flyers
Floppy drive
25. Something that can be accessed
Close box
Bulleted list
Modem
OPEN
26. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Surf
Modem
Enter
Web page
27. The pre-defined configuration of a system or an application. In most programs - the defaults can be changed to reflect personal preferences.
Scroll Bars
Hardware
Default
MAX
28. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
WWW
Demote
User name
Active worksheet
29. Toolbar used to format documents
CA TV
Formatting toolbar
Windows
HTML
30. 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
Smart Tag
Forward
Template
31. The process of writing data to a storage medium such as a floppy diskette or a hard disk drive
Clipart
Send
SAVE
Frame
32. Light or led that indicates the status of a hardware device
Secondary storage device
WYSIWYG
Output
Indicators
33. 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.
Status bar
Size & Style
Spy-ware
Animate
34. Internet Service Provider
HTTP
ISP
Update
Output device
35. The type and how big the text or object is
Size & Style
Refresh
Power Point
Integrated circuits
36. A term used to describe the process of searching for - locating and returning data.
Retrieve
Accessories programs
Outbox
Transition
37. An early operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Disc Operating System).
Toggle Switches
Jump/Flash drive
Task-switching
MS-DOS
38. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
CLOSE
.doc
Note Pad
Enter
39. 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.
Field
Formula
Search & Replace
Attach
40. The physical division of space on a disk into sections--where information can be stored. A disk's format is established as part of the initialization process.
Personal Letter Format
Workbook
Start-up button
Format
41. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information
Start-up button
Objects box/pane
AVERAGE
Spreadsheet
42. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
Spam
Accessories programs
CA TV
Application software
43. Automatically corrects misspellings on common typos
Spam
Desktop
Database
AutoCorrect
44. 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
Junk
Brochures
Query
Personal Letter Format
45. Term used to describe the process of switching back and forth between settings or between programs
Toggles
Organize
Input
Indicators
46. A location where deleted files are temporarily stored on Apple Macintosh computers
SUM
Punched cards
Trashcan
Active cell
47. 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.'
Program
Storage
Jump/Flash drive
Start-up button
48. Computer company
Column
Refresh
Apple/Mac
Pointer
49. The type of money used in a certain place
Computer output
Currency
Toggles
Spam
50. To move the visual portions of a screen up - down - left - or right - in order to see additional information on the monitor.
Scrolling
WWW
Paint
Retrieve