Computer Skills Review #2

1. What are ethics?

2. If you use information from the internet in a book report, what must you do either
in a footnote or at the end of your paper?
3. What do you call the equipment that allows you to put information into the
computer? Give 3 examples.
4. What do you call the equipment that puts information out of the computer? Give
3 examples.
5. What term describes computer programs or other items that cannot be physically
touched on a computer?
6. What piece of equipment can be used to convert a photograph into an image that
can be stored on your computer?
7. What is used to indicate your position on the computer monitor?
8. What type of graph would be best if you wanted to show the number of red cars,
black cars, and white cars in the parking lot?
9. What type of graph would be best if you wanted to show the percentage of sales
between the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade classes?
10. What type of graph would be best if you wanted to show the amount of sales of a
business over a period of 5 years?
11. You are keying a book report for you history class. What type of program would
you most likely use?
12. Which keys on your keyboard would need to be pressed in order to get an
exclamation point?
13. What does the word retrieve mean?
14. What does the word edit mean?
15. What are the steps for moving a paragraph from the middle of a paper to the end
of the document?
16. Suppose you are typing a letter and you make a mistake (you leave out the “t” in
the word “the”). When you place your cursor before the “he” and type a “t”, the
computer types over the “h”. What needs to be done to correct this problem?
17. Give an example of a database that you use every day.
18. What do you use if you want to find the smallest or largest item in a database?
19. What do you use if you want to eliminate items from a database so that only the
specific records you are looking for are displayed?
20. What do the words “at least” mean in a filter?
21. What do the words “at most” mean in a filter?
22. What does the phrase “no more than” mean in a filter?
23. How are cells identified in a spreadsheet?
24. What types of information can be sent over a computer? Give 3 examples.
25. What do you call the speed at which information can be telecomputed?
26. Why is reading the news on-line a better way of finding information than reading
the newspaper?
27. Give an example of how your history class could use telecomputing to learn about
the culture of Africa.
28. What is the main advantage of email over traditional “snail” mail?
 Computer Skills Review #2 KEY

1. What is right and wrong; morals

2. Give credit to the author of the article you used.
3. input devices – keyboard, mouse, scanner
4. output devices – monitor, printer, speaker
5. software
6. scanner
7. cursor
8. bar
9. pie
10. line
11. word processor
12. Shift and 1
13. To bring up; to open
14. To change or fix
15. High-light the text you want to move; Go to Edit and choose Cut. Move your
cursor to the point where you want to move the text; Go to Edit and choose Paste.
16. You need to press the insert button on the keyboard (the computer is in overwrite
mode)
17. phone book; internet; electronic encyclopedia
18. sort
19. filter
20. greater than or equal to
21. less than or equal to
22. less than or equal to
23. by the column and row they are in (example A2, column A row 2)
24. text, graphics, music, sound
25. baud rate
26. On-line news is more up-to-date than printed news
27. Students could correspond with a class in Africa via email or chat.
28. Email is much faster than “snail” mail.