Intro to Computers Mid Semester Review

This means printing on both sides of the paper

All of the following are advantages of online or cloud storage EXCEPT:

Desktop icons can act as shortcuts to the programs installed on your computer.

A document's appearance is called its ____.

A computer does not require instructions to perform a job.

This stores cut or copied text while you work

This part of a program's interface displays the document you are working on.

Which of the following is a possible source of clip art?

An application title bar usually displays the application name as well as the name of the doc.

This control option that don't affect a document printed size but does onscreen size.

A Macintosh computer always displays file names with their extensions showing.

How many possible values does a byte have?

You can use this guide to set margins, tabs, indents, and other paragraph formats

Antivirus programs can check a computer's disks and memory for viruses and other tasks.

A WYSIWYG display shows you how the printed page will look

Microsoft Windows is an example of this type of software.

The ability to use files on differing operating system is called________.

The four categories of App Software: stand -alone, integrated, productivity, operating system.

What does the term POST stand for?

Inkjet and laser printers are examples of nonimpact printers

Which of the following is not a read/write device?

RAM stores its contents temporarily; they are lost when the computer's power is turned off.

Which type of software do people use most often?

you can freely use, give away, or even alter this type of software.

This is used to keep data from being written or deleted on a USB flash drive.

Which of the following optical devices is a read-only device?

The Copy and Paste commands work only with text; you cannot use them with graphics

Which of the following programs in NOT considered a personal productivity program?

Within a hard drive, these are the storage media

This means using the mouse or keyboard to move through a document.

What does DLP stand for?

In a word-processing program, you press ENTER to create one of these.

The login process can be used to control who has access to a computer.

This program contains data needed by a program to operate an input or output device

Microsoft Windows was the first operating system to have a graphical user interface.

This is a set of programs that tells the computer how to start up.

When data is damaged or made unusable, a storage device experiences this.

Without software, a computer's hardware is useless.

Like a car's gas gauge, this type of computer measures data on a scale with many values.

To use a touch pad you move it across a surface such as the top of your desk, to move a pointer

Which of the following is not a job of the operating system?

A DVD-ROM drive can only read information from a disc.

Letters and digital photos are examples of documents.

The Windows and Macintosh operating systems represent data and programs by using what?

When you no longer need information stored on a hard drive, you can do this to it.

This shows you where text will appear as you type.

If you want to add one of these to a word-processing doc, you need to use a special dialog box

A visual display you use a mouse to interact with work space on the computer.

Which of the following is NOT a basic type of input.

Which of the following commands probably would not be found on the File menu?

Most desktop and laptop computers today use this type of operating system.

What kind of documents do word-processing programs create?

The on-screen tools you use to interact with a computer are called the

The word documentation refers to directions on how to install, use, or troubleshoot a program.

A spreadsheet is an application program you can use for working with numbers and doing math.

USB flash drives require battery power.

You can insert any symbol or special character by using a keyboard shortcut.

Which of the following tasks is not performed by the operating system?

This is a set of formats, which you can apply to all parts of a document that are similar

If you aren't sure which version of a program you are using, you can look here.