Intro IT Vocabulary Practice Test Lesson 4

A software program that lets you subscribe to newsgroups, as well as read and post messages to them.

Ties or clips that keep your wires neat and orderly

Copies part of an image and then recreates that image in another part of the document.

Copies part of an image and then recreates that image in another part of the document.

Refers to the process by which programming data input is broken into smaller, more distinct chunks of information that can be more easily be interpreted and acted upon.

Lets you gently blend colors.

Wires located in a laser printer

Indicates the location of a particular file or directory by outlining the route or "path" from the host name (if the file resides on a remote server) through the directory structure to the desired file name or directory name.

A small text file that a Web site uses to identify a specific computer.

Refers to the process by which programming data input is broken into smaller, more distinct chunks of information that can be more easily be interpreted and acted upon.

Occurs when a user (or programmer) has put words in an order that a program does not understand.

Is the process by which a web client requests specific information from a web server, based on a character string that is passed along. Typcially takes the form of a database search for a particular keyword or phrase.

Is a color model commonly used to display color in video systems, film recorders, and computer monitors. Is the most common color mode for viewing and working with digital images on a screen.

Allows you to adjust bitmap color and tone, and add effects to the image.

Physically organixzing the conetents of the disk to store the piees of each file contiguously.

A piece of hardware or software that connects two or more networks. Functions as a sorter and interpreter as it looks at addresses and passes bits of information to their proper destinations..

Allows you to create text on a page or within an image.

A computer requires ______ to be performed on a regular schedule.

A type of program that consists of a set of instructions for another application or utility to use.

Refers to a sequence of characters, words, or other elements that are connected to each other in some way to search and locate or retrieve a specific piece of information contained in a database or a set of documents.

Refers to the practice of blindly posting commercial messages or advertisements to a large number of unrelated and uninterested newsgroups, and bulk e-mailing unsolicited commercial messages.

A file sent to a web browser by a web server that is used to record one's activities on a website. For instance, when you buy items from a site and place them in a so-called virtual shopping cart, that information is stored in the cookie.

A system that your computer uses to organize files on the basis of specific information.

Is a holding area for files and folders before their final deletion from a storage device.

Are stored in blocks of nonadjacent clusters, thus creating fragmented files

When working with a computer display system that supports 8-bit color (or less), the video card can display only 256 different colors at one time. Dithering is a technique to simulate the display of colors that are not in the current color palette of a particular image.

Resides on the bottom of your document and show all the properties contained in your document.

Allows you to slant an object along a specified axis.

An executable file refers to a program file. Executables in DOS and Windows usually have an .exe or a .com extension. In UNIX and Macintosh environments, executable files can have any name.

How long it takes the computer to scan for a file; One of the more time-consuming elements in a computer’s performance and can significantly slow the speed of the processing cycle.

An additional piece of software that "helps" your browser interpret and display specific file types that it doesn't have the built-in ability to do itself.

A network that allows a company to share information with other businesses and customers. They transmit information over the Internet and require a user to have a password to access data on internal company servers.

Can be used instead of a mouse. They sense the position of your finger and move the pointer accordingly.

Allows you to distort the image while only dragging one corner at a time.

Online documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject.

Is a way of reducing the size of one or more files, so that they don't take up a lot of space on a server or hard drive and can travel faster over a network.

When you place files on a UNIX (multitasking, timesharing operating system) system, you can assign the files various levels of permission, specifying who can access them, and what type of access they can have.

Reduces clutter and improves mobility, has no wires and can be moved around easily.

A program that displays information about someone on the Internet. When you are logged in, type finger followed by the e-mail address of the person you want to know more about and you will learn whether or not a person is logged on, what their actual name is, and when they last logged on.

Helps you draw a path

Allows for a more natural positioning of your arms and hands.

Refers to hardware or software that bridges the gap between two otherwise incompatible applications or networks so that data can be transferred among different computers.

An application that was developed at the University of Minnesota to help organize files on the Internet. Named after the school's football mascot, this is a subject-based, menu-driven guide to finding and retrieving directories of information on the Internet.

A list of links, compiled and maintained by your web browser, to interesting, useful or important URLs that you can click on to go directly to a website. Also called bookmarks or favorites in some browsers, are a standard feature of most web browsers.

Allows you to modify shapes.

A graphic divided into regions or "hotspots.", that when clicked, accesses a web page that is linked to a particular region.

Occurs when a piece of data is broken up into many pieces that are not stored close together.

A standard system for identifying the type of data contained in a file based on its extension.