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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 discrete collection of information you create with a computer program - including memos - pictures - budgets - text - and so on.
Clipart
Punched cards
Wizard
Document
2. Sometimes referred to as run around - word wrap is an ability found in most text editing programs that allows any text that reaches the end of the far right edge of the window to wrap automatically to the next line without requiring the user to press
Calculate
Word wrap
Wizard
Task-switching
3. This is a picture or an image.
Sub-menu
Graphics
Headers & Footers
Save As
4. Medium
Timing
MEDIAN
Memos
Internet
5. Everything to the Left alignment - semi-colon
Animate
Alignment
Block Letter Format
Row
6. 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)
Hardware
Formula
Field
Key tape
7. Hypertext Transfer Protocol. A common system used to request and send HTML documents on the World Wide Web. It is the first portion of all URL addresses on the World Wide Web (e.g. - http://www.whitehouse.gov).
Sort
CA TV
Hard copy
HTTP
8. The process of writing data to a storage medium such as a floppy diskette or a hard disk drive
.doc
Icon
SAVE
Tasks
9. Used to advertise different programs or hotels etc.
Brochures
Tasks
Scroll Bars
Spreadsheet
10. The physical and mechanical components of a computer system - such as the electronic circuitry - chips - monitor - disks - disk drives - keyboard - modem - and printer.
URL
Bridge
Hardware
Browser
11. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
Default # worksheets
Auto Text
Paint
Modem
12. A column in a table
Password
Field
Internet
Attach
13. Protection for any published work that helps to prevent that work from being used without prior authorization
Reports
Multiple
Imported
Copyright
14. The name you give your file or document before you save it on a disk. This name should help you identify and retrieve this file.
Windows
MEDIAN
File name
Organize
15. A character that is not a number or a letter
Screen
Built-in Styles
Symbol
Active worksheet
16. A general term used to describe what you see on your screen when you're using a computer. This may include video effects - tables - letters - or numbers.
Enter
Flyers
Display/Monitor
Integrated circuits
17. A built-in formula that you can use in spread sheet application to calculate an average - a square root - a total - and so on.
Function
Timing
Calculator
Drag & Drop
18. A group of application programs - usually on one disk - designed to share data.
AVERAGE
Integrated circuits
Layout
Fonts
19. Bar located along the top of a window or a dialog box that displays the name of the window or software program being used.
Print
Demote
Title bar
Calculate
20. A website - or web site - is a central location of various web pages that are all related and can be accessed by visiting the home page using a browser
Retrieve
Trashcan
Web site
Toolbar
21. Where you advertise something
Indicators
Active cell
Template
Promote
22. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Close box
Active cell
MS Word
Slide show
23. A row in a table
Refresh
Program
Record
Worksheet
24. Space separating text or other elements from the edge of the paper commonly adjusted through the page setup.
Typeface & Font
CPU
GUI
Margins
25. Where the text is automatically entered
SUM
Objects box/pane
Built-in Styles
AutoContent
26. In mouse-based applications - a market moves across the screen when you move the mouse across your desk.
Pointer
Notes
CA TV
Word Art
27. Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer.
Virus
Scanner
Hardware
Field
28. The process of transferring information from a computer to a web site (or other remote location on a network). v. To transfer information from a computer to a web site (or other remote location on a network).
Punched cards
Upload
HTTP
MIN
29. 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.
Handouts
Paragraph dialog box
Line-spacing
Worksheet tab
30. This is where all the letters - numbers - and other buttons are located. When you type on it - the symbols appear on the monitor.
Blog
Ad-ware
Frame
Keyboard
31. Styles of text already in MS
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Built-in Styles
EXIT
Insert/Type over
32. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Fonts
Sent
Storage
Organize
33. Documents used to remind the user of an event or occasion
Undo
Letters
Memos
Brochures
34. A design that defines the overall look of characters
Inbox
Spam
Symbol
Typeface & Font
35. Term used to describe the process of saving information to be used later
Default
Store
Wizard
CLOSE
36. An item that has been disposed of
Command
Spy-ware
Analyze
Deleted items
37. 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.
Calendar
Desktop
Attach
EXIT
38. 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
Tasks
Form
Update
Wizard
39. The actual web page on the domain
Typeface & Font
index.html
Software
Mouse
40. Completes the text for you
Row
Exported
Auto Text
Web page
41. A visual representation of months and dates for a given year
EXIT
Calendar
Software
Task-switching
42. A tool used to make an indication that text or other object has been selected with the mouse or keyboard.
Retrieve
Highlighting Tool
Date/Time control
Exported
43. Hardware peripheral that allows computer users to input audio into computers
Paragraph dialog box
Hardware
Template
Microphone
44. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
index.html
Digital
Monitor
Page Setup dialog box
45. 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
MS Windows
Objects box/pane
Num lock
Imported
46. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Copyright
Power Point
User name
Exported
47. Creating a new document or folder
Create
Function
Integrated circuits
Workbook
48. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.
Letters
Option
URL
Menu
49. Alternatively referred to as state - status is a term used to describe the current situation or mode the device or user currently is in.
Integrated circuits
Status bar
Filter
Function
50. This is simply a way to send a message from one computer to another.
Print dialog box
Edit
Block Letter Format
E-mail