SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Computer Literacy
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
literacy
,
it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. Completes the text for you
Digital
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Auto Text
Animate
2. The layout - coloring - font - etc. of a document
Toolbar
Display/Monitor
Navigate
Design
3. A file containing a series of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images that are displayed in rapid sequence in some Web browsers.
Forward
Animate
Active worksheet
Currency
4. A group of application programs - usually on one disk - designed to share data.
Integrated circuits
Gridlines
Background
MS-DOS
5. 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.
WordPad
Ad-ware
Chart
CTRL+ALT+DEL
6. Sometimes referred to as seek - search is the process of locating a letter(s) - word(s) - file(s) - website(s) - etc.
Paint
Page Numbering
Page Setup dialog box
Search & Replace
7. 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
Storage
Menu
Query
Key tape
8. A box that helps you edit the parameters defined by the user that help determine how a printed page will appear.
Page Setup dialog box
User name
Placeholder
Spreadsheet
9. Maximum
Objects box/pane
Thesaurus
Database
MAX
10. The worksheet currently being worked on or viewed
MEDIAN
Active worksheet
Thesaurus
Digital
11. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Attach
Toggles
Abacus
Insert & Delete
12. A device that scans something that is flat and sends the image to the computer.
Title bar
Default # worksheets
Character
Scanner
13. To combine two or more files into a single file.
Signature block
GUI
Merged
CA TV
14. 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)
MEDIAN
Send
Formula
Joystick
15. 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.
Update
SUM
Junk
Tasks
16. Term used to describe a computer keyboard key that has one or more function
Look-up menu
Mouse
Toggle Switches
Objects box/pane
17. A named sub-window of a frames page. This may be scrollable and resizable and may have a border or outline.
Frame
Bulleted list
Banners
HTML
18. 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.
Accessories programs
File name
Memos
Trashcan
19. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Imported
Organize
CPU
Inbox
20. Internet Service Provider
Cell address/cell reference
ISP
Deleted items
Ready
21. Command or option used to close a program or file.
Workbook
Upload
Application software
EXIT
22. Used to advertise different programs or hotels etc.
Workbook
Brochures
Merged
Headers & Footers
23. 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
Align
Browser
Sort
Layout
24. 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.
Hyperlink
Compact Disk
Clipart
Bulleted list
25. A file that has been created with an overall layout and format to be used for a group of documents or a generic document.
Refresh
Template
Search & Replace
Print
26. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Key tape
Flyers
Navigate
Handouts
27. To reduce to a lower grade or rank
Handouts
Windows
Download
Demote
28. Term used to describe the process of switching back and forth between settings or between programs
Demote
Active worksheet
Toggles
Brochures
29. Electronic signal that is sent as binary digits
Digital
Look-up menu
Hard copy
Typeface & Font
30. A chart or graphic image that can be moved and re-sized and contains handles when selected.
MEDIAN
Objects box/pane
Organize
Multiple
31. Information that comes from a computer after it has been processed
Currency
Computer output
Publish
Forward
32. A note added by way of comment or explanation
Modified Block Letter Format
Annotations
Send
Built-in Styles
33. 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.
Command
Store
Typeface & Font
UNIVAC
34. A flat round storage medium that is read by a laser
Display/Monitor
Compact Disk
Personal Letter Format
Search & Replace
35. ...
Smart Tag
Receive
Retrieve
Background
36. A little device that you move with your hand which then moves the cursor on the screen.
Mouse
Web page
Program
Sent
37. A location where deleted files are temporarily stored on Apple Macintosh computers
Recycle bin
Floppy drive
Demote
Trashcan
38. A context-related list of options that users can choose from.
Menu
Default
WordPad
Spreadsheet
39. A term used to describe a software program or section of a program that is running in a multitasking environment.
ISP
Tasks
Integrated circuits
WYSIWYG
40. Any character that is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - or 0
Borders
MS Windows Tour
Receive
Number
41. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Monitor
Close box
Date/Time control
MS Word
42. Central Processing Unit. The brain of the computer.
Ad-ware
Graphics
Demote
CPU
43. World Wide Web - Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.
Brochures
Align
WWW
Promote
44. Adding text to a document
Margins
Retrieve
Storage
Insert/Type over
45. An operating environment created by MS provide an interface known as GUI for IBM compatible computers
Menu
CPU
OPEN
MS Windows
46. A column in a table
Field
HTML
Character
Command
47. The address of documents and resources on the internet.
Form
URL
Alignment
Formula bar
48. Alternatively referred to as dummy text - placeholder text is text that is only present in order to hold the place for something else
Microphone
Toolbar
Placeholder
MIN
49. This is an abbreviation for 'sending particularly annoying messages'; it stands for unwanted e-mail.
Retrieve
Start-up button
Chart
Spam
50. Styles of text already in MS
MS Windows Tour
Formatting toolbar
Thesaurus
Built-in Styles