Hardware
Software
General Computer Knowledge
Word 1
Word 2
100
A mouse is this type of device
What is an input device?
100
This is the word processing software for your desktop
What is Microsoft Word?
100
The action of gaining access to a computer or a network by entering a username and password
What is logon?
100
This function of Microsoft Word tells you when something may be misspelled
What is spell check?
100
This function leaves the selected words where they are but also copies the words somewhere else on the page
What is copy and paste?
200
A CD or DVD is this type of device
What is a storage device?
200
An extension at the end of a file name, indicating which application was used to create a document
What is a file type?
200
A feature that allows the user to change the attributes of a file (such as location, file name, or file type) before saving it
What is "save as"?
200
This determines where words are situated on the page: left, center, or right
What is alignment?
200
This function takes words from where they are and moves them to another place on the page.
What is cut and paste?
300
Headphones are this type of device
What is an output device?
300
Computer software created to allow the user to perform a specific job or task
What is application software?
300
This is what you should do to a flash drive before taking it out of the computer
What is "safely eject"?
300
When making a table in word, this is the group of cells going up and down
What is a column?
300
This is a type of page break that you put in yourself
What is a manual page break?
400
The "brain" of a computer
What is a Central Processing Unit or CPU?
400
System software that acts as a "go-between", allowing computer hardware and other software to communicate with each other (Hint: Your desktop's is Windows 7)
What is an operating system?
400
Input devices, output devices, and storage are all connected to the system unit so they are called these
What are peripherals?
400
When making a table in word, this is the group of cells going left and right
What is a row?
400
This is the type of page break that happens when you run out of room on the previous page
What is an automatic page break?
500
Computer chips that store data while the computer is working; often called RAM
What is memory?
500
This is the database software for your desktop
What is Microsoft Access?
500
The "box" or computer case that contains the CPU, power supply, memory, and storage.
What is the system unit?
500
The type of orientation where the page is taller than it is wide
What is portrait orientation?
500
The type of orientation where the page is wider than it is tall
What is landscape orientation?