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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. 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.
Ready
Indicators
Desktop
Look-up menu
2. Alternatively referred to as UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) - spam - not to be confused with the meat product - is slang commonly used to describe junk e-mail on the Internet.
Design
Paint
Junk
Slide show
3. This is the process where you copy something from another computer or the Internet - and save it on your computer.
Gateway
Field
Browser
Download
4. A minor show offered in addition to a main exhibition
Slide show
Chart
Auto-number
Scanner
5. A software program or program feature designed to locate misspelled words and notify the user of those misspelled words.
Word Art
Spell Checker
Change
Reports
6. 3
Document
Inbox
Formula
Default # worksheets
7. Microsoft WordPad is a free rich text editor included with Microsoft Windows 95 - 98 - ME - NT - 2000 - XP - Vista - 7 - and future releases of Microsoft Windows.
Ready
Currency
Storage
WordPad
8. A portion of a computer display used in a graphical interface that enables users to select commands by pointing to illustrations or symbols with a mouse. 'Windows' is also the name Microsoft adopted for its popular operating system.
Publish
Fonts
MS Word
Windows
9. When referring to multitasking operating systems - background is the place an active program is running but not seen on the computer
spacing
Task-switching
Background
User name
10. 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.
Auto-number
Workbook
Cards
Headers & Footers
11. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
Start-up button
Icon
Application software
Tables
12. 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
Edit
Query
Insert/Type over
Journal
13. Text or an image that is connected by hypertext coding to a different location. By selecting the text or image with a mouse - the computer 'jumps to' (or displays) the linked text.
Option
Transition
Ready
Hyperlink
14. The end of a line of text. You can force a line break by pressing 'Return' - or you can let the application break lines for you. This is a special character that forces a new line on a page without creating a new paragraph.
Size & Style
Line-spacing
Worksheet tab
Scroll Bars
15. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
WWW
Retrieve
Notes
Database
16. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
Date/Time control
OS
Close box
Format
17. A character that is not a number or a letter
Symbol
Formula
Animate
URL
18. 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.
Design
Application software
GUI
Upload
19. A picture or graphics file that can be inserted on a web page and displayed in a browser.
Image
MS Windows
Placeholder
Active cell
20. A paper printout of what you have prepared on the computer.
Hard copy
Analyze
Display/Monitor
Annotations
21. Storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten regardless if the computer has power
Word Art
Deleted items
Placeholder
Secondary storage device
22. Where the text is automatically entered
AutoContent
Print dialog box
Program
Print
23. Where you get something
spacing
Align
Trashcan
Receive
24. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Text box
Modem
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Grammar Checker
25. 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.
Task panes
Filter
Close box
Jump/Flash drive
26. Magnetic tape drive capable of moving the tape through the tapes drive's read
SUM
MS Word
Key tape
File name
27. The type of money used in a certain place
Currency
Active worksheet
Soft copy
Web site
28. A FTP command used to upload a file to a remote computer.
Pointer
Num lock
Send
Word Art
29. Data that come out of a computer device. For example - information displayed on the monitor - sound from the speakers - and information printed to paper.
Paragraph dialog box
E-mail
Output device
Output
30. A software program that allows a person to explore the Internet in an easy to use way
Forward
Relationships
Attach
Personal Letter Format
31. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Placeholder
Pointer
Program
Scroll Bars
32. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Upload
Active worksheet
Desktop
Demote
33. Software that allows one to calculate numbers in a format that is similar to pages in a conventional ledger.
Margins
AutoCorrect
Organize
Spreadsheet
34. A device that scans something that is flat and sends the image to the computer.
Scanner
Setup dialog box
Graphics
Cards
35. 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.
index.html
Spy-ware
Blog
UNIVAC
36. Creating a new document or folder
Relationships
Block Letter Format
Create
Inbox
37. 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
Relationships
Scrolling
Layout
Output device
38. Programs currently being worked on
Active programs
Worksheet
Deleted items
spacing
39. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Save As
Exported
Scanner
Caps lock
40. A design that defines the overall look of characters
Typeface & Font
Worksheet
Block Letter Format
UNIVAC
41. When a machine - object etc. is capable of performing a task
Relationships
Ready
Edit
Hardware
42. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Look-up menu
Memos
Undo
Timing
43. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
UNIVAC
MIN
Journal
Ergonomics
44. Alternatively referred to as the arithmetic mean - average is the sum of a series of numbers - divided by the total amount of numbers.
Program
CPU
AVERAGE
Task-switching
45. What You See Is What You Get. When using most word processors - page layout programs (See desktop publishing) - and web page design programs - words and images will be displayed on the monitor as they will look on the printed page or web page.
Date/Time control
Annotations
WYSIWYG
Output
46. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
Objects box/pane
Cell address/cell reference
Line-spacing
Form
47. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Relationships
Task-switching
Formatting toolbar
Junk
48. Toolbar used to format documents
Default # worksheets
Formatting toolbar
Wizard
Status bar
49. Everything to the left except date - closing - written signature - typed name - senders address - comma
Pointer
Formatting toolbar
ISP
Personal Letter Format
50. 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)
Punched cards
Save As
Cell address/cell reference
Line-spacing