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Computer Literacy
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Study First
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. To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis
Analyze
Screen
MS Windows Tour
Promote
2. A menu window that opens vertically on-screen to display context-related options. Also called pop-up menu or pull-down menu.
Slide show
Menu - drop-down
Banners
MEDIAN
3. A column in a table
Display/Monitor
OPEN
Exported
Field
4. 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.
Scanner
Typeface & Font
Contacts
Column
5. 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.
Application software
Windows
Outline View
Software
6. Data laid out in a horizontal line in a table or spreadsheet
Row
Formatting toolbar
Program
Computer output
7. An arrangement of information in rows and columns that makes comparing and contrasting easier
Formula bar
Alignment
Tables
Option
8. This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files - like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Browser
Column
Bridge
Paragraph dialog box
9. Medium
MEDIAN
Line-spacing
Analyze
Template
10. Peripheral that receives or displays output from a computer
Software
MS Windows Tour
Output device
Toolbar
11. When referring to a network - a gateway is an address used as an entry point into another network
Gateway
Toggles
Block Letter Format
UNIVAC
12. A program that walks you through MS
Print dialog box
Block Letter Format
MS Windows Tour
Title bar
13. 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.
Print dialog box
Status bar
Character
Menu toolbar
14. A name - e-mail - or other personal information that enables other users to get a hold of someone
Contacts
Download
Digital
HTTP
15. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Paragraph dialog box
Undo
Monitor
Smart Tag
16. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Key tape
Ergonomics
Compact Disk
CPU
17. Sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes.
Flyers
Fonts
Sub-menu
Retrieve
18. A minor show offered in addition to a main exhibition
Outlook
Slide show
Calculator
UNIVAC
19. 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.
Workbook
Margins
Worksheet tab
Hyperlink
20. An image usually displayed at the top of a page in a Web site - containing text and design elements (often to identify the site).
Worksheet
Task-switching
Auto-number
Banners
21. 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.'
MAX
Spy-ware
Banners
Program
22. Minimum
Placeholder
Hyperlink
MIN
Clipart
23. A key that - when pressed in conjunction with another key - creates a special effect.
HTTP
Auto Text
Option
Date/Time control
24. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Sent
Spy-ware
CLOSE
Paint
25. Turns computer on and off
Sent
Paragraph dialog box
On/Off
Function
26. A box that helps with the overall process of connecting and preparing a software program - hardware device or computer to function properly.
Setup dialog box
MEDIAN
DSL
Slide show
27. A tool that converts an image or a file.
Punched cards
Filter
Output device
Recycle bin
28. 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.
Size & Style
Worksheet tab
Page Numbering
Attach
29. Adding text to a document
Print
Cut - Copy & Paste
Insert/Type over
Hardware
30. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information
Start-up button
Word wrap
Page Numbering
Formatting toolbar
31. A type of edging around a document
Borders
Multiple
Scrolling
Toggle Switches
32. A box that helps you edit the parameters defined by the user that help determine how a printed page will appear.
Screensaver
Page Setup dialog box
Smart Tag
Multiple
33. A software tool included with some word processors that provides synonyms for selected words on command
Thesaurus
Scanner
Mouse
Integrated circuits
34. Electronic signal that is sent as binary digits
Record
MS Windows
Handouts
Digital
35. Converts digital data into analog data - so it can be sent over phone lines. Changes analog into digital when receiving data.
Function
Modem
Auto-number
Notes
36. 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
Thesaurus
Update
Apple/Mac
Word Art
37. A computer bridge is a device that connects two local-area networks (LANs) - or two segments of the same LAN.
Scrolling
Relationships
Bridge
Function
38. A graphic representation of selected worksheet information. Types include 2-D and 3-D column - bar - pie - area and line charts.
Word Art
Database
Range
Chart
39. An item that has been disposed of
Deleted items
Wizard
Insert & Delete
Smart Tag
40. To workout a mathematical equation
Insert & Delete
Chart
Calculate
Tables
41. A named sub-window of a frames page. This may be scrollable and resizable and may have a border or outline.
Publish
MS Windows Tour
Dial-up
Frame
42. Enables computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software
Recycle bin
OS
Auto-number
Active worksheet
43. 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.
Sub-menu
Start-up button
Windows
Blog
44. Automatically corrects misspellings on common typos
Trashcan
Highlighting Tool
Word wrap
AutoCorrect
45. Maximum
MS Windows
Column
MAX
Analog
46. 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.
UNIVAC
Insert & Delete
Input
Alignment
47. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Publish
Relationships
Function
Align
48. A device that scans something that is flat and sends the image to the computer.
Modem
Scanner
Format
Send
49. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Toggle Switches
Journal
Paragraph dialog box
Formula
50. Exploring the Internet.
Surf
Active programs
Organize
Hard drive