SECTION 2: SOFTWARE 2.15 Revision Quiz

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SECTION 2: SOFTWARE

2.15 Revision Quiz

1 Can you name three operating systems? Where do deleted documents go? What's another word for the desktop background? (It begins with W.) Where do you go to customise the appearance and other settings of your computer? What type of application can be used to touch up photos? 2 3 4 5 6 What type of application can be used to store and play music? What do you call software that can be used by anybody without a licence? How would you describe this text? Which will fit more text onto a page, Arial 9 point double spaced, or Arial 36 point single spaced? What do you call a pre-formatted blank document? Where is a section of cut or copied text (or image) temporarily stored? How is a flipped image different to the original? 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 What's the opposite of sharpening an image? What do you call very small versions of images? What word means to put in alphabetical or numerical order? What do you call one box in a table or spreadsheet? What word beginning with S means a series of displays in a presentation? What do you call a small technical problem in a piece of software? 14 15 16 17 18 19 What does WinZip do? (Clue: is the file too big?) What kind of software operates printers, scanners etc? Tables and spreadsheet grids are made up of _____ (vertical) and _____ (horizontal). Can you name these symbols? 22. $ 23. & 24. * 25. # 26. ( ) 27. / 28. \ 29. ? 30. + 20 21

 

ANSWER KEY

2.15 Revision quiz 1. Windows (95/98/2000/ME/XP), Mac (OS9, OSX etc), Linux, 2. The recycle bin, 3. Wallpaper, 4. The control panel, 5. An image editor, 6. A media player, 7. Freeware, 8. Capital letters in highlighted bold italic underline, 9. Arial 9 point double spaced, 10. A template, 11. The clipboard, 12. It's a mirror image of the original, 13. Softening an image, 14. Thumbnails, 15. To sort, 16. A cell, 17 A slideshow, 18. A bug, 19. It compresses files, 20. Drivers, 21. Columns and rows, 22. Dollar sign, 23. ampersand, 24. asterisk (or multiply sign), 25. hash, 26. brackets, 27. forward slash (or divide sign), 28. backward slash, 29. question mark, 30. plus sign