CSCI 235 –MICRO-COMPUTER APPLICATIONS – SAMPLE EXAM



CSCI 235 –MICRO-COMPUTER APPLICATIONS – SAMPLE EXAM

September 29, 2006

Name:____________________________ ID No. ____________________________

Section 1. [30 pts] Multiple Choice.

The following questions refer to Microsoft Windows:

1. If you deleted a file, then wanted to recover it, which icon should you select?

a) My Computer

b) Recycle Bin

c) Network Neighborhood

d) None of these answers are correct

2. Which of the following allows you to switch back and forth between programs that are currently running?

a) Recycle Bin

b) Network Neighborhood

c) Taskbar

d) Start button

3. If you start Windows and see an empty Taskbar (except for the Start button), what does it mean?

a) The Recycle Bin is empty

b) You are not connected to a network

c) Multitasking is not set up on your computer

d) There are no programs running in memory

4. If the mouse pointer is a double arrow, what operation are you performing?

a) Inserting text in a document

b) Minimizing a window

c) Sizing a window

d) Selecting a Help topic

The following questions refer to Microsoft Word:

5. What will happen if you select a menu option that is followed by an ellipsis (...)?

a) The system will beep but nothing further will happen because the selected command is not currently available.

b) A dialog box will appear on the screen requesting that you enter further information.

c) A help window for the selected command will appear.

d) It is not possible to determine given the information provided in the question.

6. Which menu contains the commands to save the current document with a new document name?

a) The Tools menu

b) The File menu

c) The View menu

d) The Edit menu

7. Which of the following will execute the Print command?

a) Press CTRL+P (a keyboard shortcut)

b) Pull down the File menu then click the Print command

c) Click the Print button on the Standard toolbar

d) All of these answers are correct

8. Which of the following will display the paragraph marks in a Word document?

a) The Ins key

b) The Caps Lock key

c) The Show/Hide (¶) button on the Standard toolbar

d) All of theses answers are correct

9. Which feature of Word will change THe to The, or SGA to Student Government Association as you are typing the document?

a) Replace

b) Macros

c) AutoCorrect

d) None of these answers are correct

10. Which of the following contains buttons for bold face, italics, and underlining?

a) The status bar

b) The Standard toolbar

c) The Formatting toolbar

d) The horizontal ruler

11. Which of the following commands will affect the contents of the Windows clipboard?

a) Copy

a) Paste

a) Both Copy and Paste

a) Neither Copy nor Paste

12. What happens if you select a block of text, copy it, move to the beginning of the document, paste it, move to the end of the document, and then click paste again?

a) The selected text will be inserted only at the beginning of the document

a) The selected text will be inserted at the beginning and end of the document

a) The selected text will be deleted from the document

b) The situation is not possible; that is, you cannot paste twice in a row without an intervening cut or copy operation

13. Which of the following are set using the Format Paragraph command?

a) Line spacing

a) Alignment

a) Indents

a) All of these answers are correct

14. Which of the following features will automatically convert an e-mail address or URL into a hyperlink as you type?

a) Insert Hyperlink

b) AutoCorrect

c) Both Insert Hyperlink and AutoCorrect

d) Neither Insert Hyperlink nor AutoCorrect

15. This feature replaces common fractions 1/2 with ½, and converts ordinal numbers to 1st or 2nd. What is this feature called?

a) Autoformat feature

b) AutoCorrect feature

c) Grammar checker

d) Spelling checker

17. Which of the following menus would you use to enter an accented letter such as the é in résumé into a document?

a) Format

b) Tools

c) Insert

d) Edit

18. Which of the following styles can be applied using the AutoFormat command?

a) Heading 1

b) Body Text

c) Both Heading 1 and Body Text

d) Neither Heading 1 nor Body Text

19. Which of the following statements about tables in Word is true?

a) Cells in a row can be merged to create a single, larger cell

b) The cell height of individual cells may be changed

c) Shading must be applied to all the cells in a row or column

d) It is not possible to see the effects of formatting commands on a table in Normal view

20. Which of the following allows you to format bullets?

a) The Bullets button on the Standard toolbar

b) The Bullets and Numbering command on the Format menu

c) The Format Bullets command on the Insert menu

d) All of these answers are correct

Section 2. [30 pts] True/False.

The following questions refer to Microsoft Windows:

1. A dimmed command indicates that additional information is required to execute the command.

2. Check boxes indicate mutually exclusive options.

3. Even when there are multiple windows open, only one window is active at any time.

The following questions refer to Microsoft Word:

4. Normal view will display the document as it will print, so you can check the headers, footers, and other special elements.

5. The Undo command can undo only the three most recent changes.

6. The Caps Lock key is an example of a toggle switch.

7. A hard return is inserted by the user to begin a new paragraph.

8. The Zoom command cannot be used in Normal view.

9. Changing the magnification of text using the Zoom command changes the size of the printed text.

10. Ctrl+PageUp moves the insertion point to the beginning of the document.

11. The user can modify wizards but not templates in Word.

12. All the cells in a row must have the same formatting.

13. An entire row can be selected by clicking outside the table to the left of the first cell.

14. The Outline view takes advantage of styles and enables you to expand or collapse your document.

15. Once a bulleted list has been created, the bullets cannot be changed to numbers.

16. If you delete a section break, the text in the following section will take on the style of the preceding text.

17. Margins can be set differently from page to page in a Word document through the use of section breaks.

18. The Standard and Formatting toolbars must always be displayed.

19. A document that is entered with a wizard can be saved and edited like any other document.

20. Once you have completed all the variable information in a Word wizard, you can print the document but not save it.

Section 3. [36 pts] Short Answer.

1. What is an operating system and what are its functions? Name two operating systems

2. Explain what is Freeware, Public Domain, Shareware, and Open-Source software

3. What is the Turing Test?

4. List the components of the CPU and explain the purpose of each

5. Transform 47 (base 10) to base 2

6. What is a pixel, what does screen resolution refer to?

Section 4. [4 pts] Matching.

a. Click on 1 ___ Turn off Show/Hide Codes

b. Click on 2 ___ Save as a different file name

c. Click on 3 ___ Change the font size

d. Click on 4 ___ Spell check the document

e. Click on 5 ___ Print the document

f. Click on 6 ___ Switch to Print Layout View

g. Click on 7 ___ Scroll Down

h. Click on 8 ___ Display Office Assistant

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