Basic Computer Skills Assessment

Benchmarking

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Any of the following objects appear when you place your mouse in a particular position in the monitor except for one. Which one is that? *

When clicking on the Start button, then clicking on the All Programs button, it will: *

Copying a file from one location to another causes the original file to: *

The taskbar at the bottom of your screen displays *

To check or change your printer preference *

To minimize your screen you would *

To highlight a single letter you would *

To copy a statement *

If you have 2 programs open, and you want to shift between programs, what buttons do you hit? *

What is the shortcut to close browsers and everything else open on your screen? *

What is the first thing you check on if the headphones attached to your computer seems to not be working? *

The instructions that tell the computer what to do and how to do it. *

Which one of the following is an output device? *

Which of the following works as both an input and output device? *

A computer must always have *

A red line under any text in MS Word means *

An Operating system is? *

Which of these are examples of search engines? *

To increase the font size from the keyboard we use *

"Ctrl + C" is a shortcut for? *

"OS" computer abbreviation means? *

How do you take a screenshot of your monitor *

How would you close what you have open on your screen? *

What should you click on, if by mistake you have deleted anything and you want to retrieve it *

The "Safari" is a? *

If your PC is switched on, however, the monitor is not showing anything, what are the 2 things you need to check? *

The heart (and brains) of the computer is the? *

When keyboarding, all of the following are examples of good posture, EXCEPT *

RAM stand for? *

Text-styling feature of MS word is *

Which item appears dimly behind the main body text *

We can remove/hide the border of shape by selecting *

When you save a file, it is permanently saved on the? *

What type of devices allows you to save your file, and then take the file with you to access on a different computer? *

What does CPU stand for *

How can I insert a tab *

In which view Headers and Footers are visible *

The space left between the margin and the start of a paragraph is called *

The process of arranging the items of a column in some sequence or order is known as *

What are some common uses for a computer?

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