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Answer all questions.

Part I

PLEASE IGNORE PRE-SELECTED ANSWER. MAKE YOUR OWN SELECTION.

Question 1

____ is the screen you see when you first start Windows.

Answer

		The desktop
		The Start menu
		Aero Flip 3D
		Windows Live

Question 2

 
A Navigation pane; a Details pane; an Address bar

Answer

		the desktop
		a program window
		the Start menu
		a Windows Explorer window

Question 3

 

A folder window’s ____ displays your current location as a series of links separated by arrows.

Answer

		Navigation pane
		Location pane
		status bar
		Address bar

Question 4

 When you point to an item on the desktop, a (n) ____ appears, giving information about that item.

Answer

		Notification
		ScreenTip
		InfoPane
		Windows Note

Question 5

You are performing some basic Windows 7 tasks.

You have opened the Recycle Bin window. You try to click the Empty Recycle Bin command, but nothing happens. Why?

Answer

		You need to double-click it.
		There are no files currently in the Recycle Bin.
		You first need to highlight the file(s) you want to recycle.
		None of the above; there is no such command.

Question 6

 

A (n) ____ is a program that causes your monitor to go blank or to display an animated design after a specified amount of idle time.

Answer

		Emote
		background task
		security routine
		screen saver

 

Question 7

 

You can change themes by right-clicking a blank area of the desktop, and then clicking ____.

Answer

		Appearance
		Control Panel
		Personalize
		Customization

Question 8

 
In each of the following questions, look at the file name and explain what’s wrong with it.

Mastering-the-50-Meter-Breaststroke?.jpg

Answer

		The main part of the file name is too long.
		There are too many hyphens.
		The question mark is not allowed.
		The file name is too cryptic.

 

Question 9

 

A folder name can have up to ____ characters.

Answer

		8
		24
		255
		256

 

Question 10

 

Carbonite is a service that will back up your data to ____.

Answer

		a compressed file
		your USB removable disk
		the cloud
		the ether

 

Question 11

 

____ folders and files between two computers means to copy the most updated version from one computer to the other.

Answer

		Syncing
		Backing up
		Organizing
		Data streaming

Question 12

 

If you want to copy a file or folder from one location to another on the same drive, hold the ____ key while you drag.

Answer

		Shift
		Ctrl
		Tab
		F1

Question 13

 

Depending on the Office program and the zoom level, you might see ____.

Answer

		a horizontal scroll bar
		a vertical scroll bar
		both a and b
		neither a nor b

Question 14

 

The keyboard shortcut for cutting text or objects is ____.

Answer

		Ctrl+C
		Ctrl+V
		Ctrl+Z
		Ctrl+X

Question 15

 

In ____, you can see file contents, but you cannot edit, save, or print them.

Answer

		Office Lite
		Protected View
		Locked Mode
		Disabled State

 

Question 16

 

Jill makes and sells jewelry from home, and wants to buy Microsoft Office to use for her business.

Jill wants to keep an up-to-date record of her purchases and sales. She needs a program that can help maintain her finances as well as show her charts of where she stands from month to month. She will most likely use ____ for this.

Answer

		Word
		PowerPoint
		Access
		Excel

 

Question 17

 

A(n) ____ is a box with descriptive text about a button, an object, or another element on the screen.

Answer

		ScreenTip
		contextual tab
		Gallery
		Mini toolbar

 

Question 18

 

The Ribbon is organized into ____.

Answer

		Panes
		Quadrants
		workspaces
		Tabs

Question 19

 

Pavel is learning about different ways to adjust settings in a dialog box.

Pavel increases the number in a box by clicking an arrow repeatedly. He is using a(n) ____.

Answer

		option button
		spin box
		list box
		text box

Question 20

 

To see more of a document’s content at a smaller size, you can ____.

Answer

		zoom in
		zoom out
		decrease the resolution
		use the scroll bars

Question 21

 

____ is used to enter, edit, and format text.

Answer

		Word
		PowerPoint
		Excel
		Access

Question 22

 

In Backstage view, the left pane is called the ____.

Answer

		Task pane
		status bar
		navigation bar
		Toggle

 

Question 23

 

You can find the Exit command in ____ view.

Answer

		Tools
		File
		Home
		Backstage

Question 24

 

Jill makes and sells jewelry from home, and wants to buy Microsoft Office to use for her business.

Jill has a meeting with a representative from a large retail chain who is interested in selling her merchandise at their stores. Jill wants to wow the rep at a meeting, so she uses ____ to create a presentation.

Answer

		Word
		PowerPoint
		Access
		Excel

 

 

 

Question 25

You live in Maine; you are sending a letter to a company named Orange Widgets, located in New Jersey. Each of the following questions involves a section of a block style business letter from you to Mr. Smith at Orange Widgets. For each question, choose the answer that best identifies the section or completes the thought.

At the bottom of the letter, there are no initials. This indicates that ____.

Answer

		nothing is enclosed in the letter
		the letter is the final version, not a draft
		the letter was typed by you, not a different typist
		none of the above

Question 26

Learning to use key combinations when working with computers will save you a good deal of time, both in navigating documents and in editing them. You take a few minutes to practice some typical combinations.

You have pressed the Ctrl+Up Arrow key combination. This has ____.

Answer

		copied whatever text was selected in the document
		cut whatever text was selected in the document
		selected all of the text in the document
		moved the insertion point up one paragraph

 

Question 27

 

The Office Clipboard collects up to ____ item(s) cut or copied from Office programs.

Answer

		1
		3
		8
		24

 

Question 28

 

The top rows of colors in the color palette are known as ____.

Answer

		Web-safe colors
		theme colors
		the Color Wheel
		symbiotic colors

Question 29

 

Learning to use key combinations when working with computers will save you a good deal of time, both in navigating documents and in editing them. You take a few minutes to practice some typical combinations.

You have pressed the Ctrl+Y key combination, but nothing happened. This is because ____.

Answer

		you have not undone anything, so there is nothing to redo
		you have not cut anything, so there is nothing to copy
		you are already at the end of the document, so you cannot go any farther down
		you have not selected any text to move

 

Question 30

 

You live in Maine; you are sending a letter to a company named Orange Widgets, located in New Jersey. Each of the following questions involves a section of a block style business letter from you to Mr. Smith at Orange Widgets. For each question, choose the answer that best identifies the section or completes the thought.

555 Pleasant Drive Portland, ME 04101

Answer

		inside address
		return address
		complimentary address
		none of the above

 

Question 31

 

The ____ paste option inserts text using the formatting of the surrounding text in the new location.

Answer

		Keep Text Only
		Keep Source Formatting
		Best Fit
		Dither into Current

Question 32

 

You are experimenting with the more advanced Word techniques and options described in the chapter. For each of the following questions, choose the most appropriate answer.

You have automatically applied the same font style and paragraph spacing that you used in one part of your document to another part with one click. You have used the ____.

Answer

		Format Painter
		Paragraph Tab
		Eyedropper
		New from Existing dialog box

 

Question 33

 

The text lists ____ way(s) to correct misspelled words.

Answer

		One
		Two
		Three
		Six

 

Question 34

 

You live in Maine; you are sending a letter to a company named Orange Widgets, located in New Jersey. Each of the following questions involves a section of a block style business letter from you to Mr. Smith at Orange Widgets. For each question, choose the answer that best identifies the section or completes the thought.

“Dear Mr. Smith:”

Answer

		Complimentary
		signature line
		Salutation
		“To:” line

Question 35

You live in Maine; you are sending a letter to a company named Orange Widgets, located in New Jersey. Each of the following questions involves a section of a block style business letter from you to Mr. Smith at Orange Widgets. For each question, choose the answer that best identifies the section or completes the thought.

“Cordially yours,”

Answer

		Salutation
		complimentary close
		complimentary enclosure
		signature line

 

Question 36

 

The ____ indicates where text will be inserted in a document.

Answer

		left and right margin
		Insert panel
		tab stop
		insertion point

 

Question 37

 

To see the document’s current page number, look at the page count indicator at the ____.

Answer

		bottom of the title bar
		right end of the status bar
		left end of the Ribbon
		left end of the status bar

 

Question 38

 

You can apply headings to a document in ____ view, and then display the outline in Outline view.

Answer

		Web
		Details
		Normal
		Print Layout

 

Question 39

 

A(n) ____ is an explanatory comment or reference that appears at the bottom of a page.

Answer

		Footer
		Footnote
		Endnote
		bibliography

Question 40

 

Using styles instead of direct formatting ____.

Answer

		saves time
		makes the elements in a document consistent
		both a and b
		neither a nor b

Question 41

 

You are learning the basics of Quick Styles in preparation for a long research paper you will have to write for the end of the semester.

You have altered a style in a document that is based on the Normal template. You want this altered style to be available in other documents. You can make this happen by ____.

Answer

		simply saving the document
		clicking New documents based on this template in the Modify Style dialog box
		saving the document as a template (.dotx file)
		none of the above; altered styles can only exist in the document in which they were created

Question 42

 

A(n) ____ is a placeholder for variable information that includes an instruction to insert the specific information.

Answer

		Header
		alt text marker
		Field
		Record
Part II

Prince Georges Community College

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
Please provide your answer directly below the question

1.      Who is in charge of the internet and the World Wide Web?

 

2.      Name four types of Online Communications and describe each one in detail (Example: Instant messaging).

 

3.       What is E-Commerce?

 

4.      What is e-portfolio? Give a brief description and an example of e-portfolio.

 

5.      Compare the differences between the conventional dial-up Internet access and Cable Internet access?

 

6.      What does Mobile wireless Internet access mean? Give a brief description.

 

7.      What is internet browser? Name three widely used internet browsers.

 

8.      What do you understand by Copyright Law and its role in enhancing Internet?

 

9.      What happens when you delete an email message?

 

10.  Select five of the following terms and clearly describe the meaning of each one of them: a) Hacking, b) Piggybacking, c) War driving, d) Computer sabotage, c) Bot (zombie computer), Malware, f) bot-net, g) virus, h) worm, i) Denial of service, j) phishing, k) identity theft, l) Pharming, and m) spear phishing.

 

11. How do many organizations and educational institutions explain acceptable computer use to their employees, students, or other users?

12. Why might hackers be moving away from targeting data stored on company servers and focusing on stealing data in real time during credit card and debit card transactions?

13. What is online auction fraud? Explain in detail.

14. What is a throw-away email address?

15. Discuss the impact of new technology in the society and why it is quickly replacing existing technology.  Be sure to consider the personal, business, societal, economic, global, and environmental impacts of the new technology.

16. What ethical concerns are related to the introduction of new technology?

17. What job does new technology provide? Be sure to consider individuals, business, local communities, the country, and the world?

 18. What is serial transmission?

 19. Define and describe in detail parallel transmission process.

21.  Describe in general terms the components of a computer, both the system unit and peripherals.
(Excellent answer description: 4 or more internal components accurately described; 4 or more peripherals accurately described).

22. Describe 3 different categories of computers, noting the differences in their capabilities.
(Excellent answer description: 3 different categories of computers are accurately described, with at least 2 factors that differentiate the 3 categories accurately noted).

23. Briefly describe each of the following types of computer software. Include what the software category is generally used for and one specific example of how it has changed from a previous generation of computers to the present: