Windows Xp Theory Week 3

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Technically speaking,which one of the following would not be considered a computer device?

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Motherboard

Front 2

In the context of computer technology,a device is described as

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Hardware

Front 3

In Windows XP,the Device Manager allows you to

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See the status of all of the devices attached to your computer

Front 4

These bitmap files provide a high level of color and detail;they are not used on the Internet,and the file sizes are much larger then the other two

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Bitmap

Front 5

In the Windows XP Paint Program,the Undo option is located in this menu

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Edit

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In the Windows XP Paint program,you can select a color that is in a picture to use as the foreground or background.On the toolbox,click the

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Pick Color tool

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By default,the background color in an image is white.To change the background color,select a foreground color,then use the

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Fill with Color tool

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The Paint toolbox provides several options for drawing lines on an image.This tool allows you to draw free-form lines as if you were using a paintbrush.

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Brush

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The paint program provides you with four types of shapes that you can add to your picture.this shape allows you to draw a free-form shape with any number of sides

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Polygon

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The Paint program allows you to delete an area of a picture that you do not want.The tool to accomplish this task is the

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Erase tool

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Once you have an area of a picture selected you can copy it elsewhere on your picture.The Copy and Paste options are found in the

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Edit menu

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In the Windows XP Paint program,you can perform many manipulations.This manipulation will turn the selection upside down either vertically or horizontally

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Flip

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In the Windows XP Paint program,this tool allows you to enlarge the picture and move a specific area of the drawing to the main drawing area

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Skew

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A screen shot is sometimes called a

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Screen capture

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In Windows XP,you can do screen capturing simply by pressing this key

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Print Screen

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Microsoft's CD Player is an easy way for you to listen to your audio CDs. You can use a smaller version of the CD player interface,called

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Tiny View

Front 17

Which one of the following would not be considered a mode for playing CDs in the Microsoft's CD Player

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Playlist

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Microsoft's CD Player's Playlist function

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Plays all of the tracks once in the default order.

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These files are used for all of the system sounds;it reproduces sound faithfully and can be used for music and speech.

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MIDI files

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The type of sound file used for Windows system sounds is a

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Wave Files

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The interface to the resources available on the Net is called the

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Browser

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HTML is an acronym for

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Hypertext Markup Language

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Which type of software allows your computer to communicate with another computer?

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Systems

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One of the most widely used browsers is

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Microsoft Internet Explorer

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A new and rapidly evolving technology that uses existing telephone lines yet has a much faster transfer rate is

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DSL

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The official entryway to the Internet is through a(n)

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Internet website.

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An ISP is an acronym for

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Internet Service Protocol

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The top-level or opening page of a Web site is called a(n)

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Home page

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What is a URL?

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The address of a resource on the World Wide Web.

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Internet Explorer allows you to set security options to help keep your information and your computer secure.The Internet security zone is used

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For all Internet sites that you haven't designated as Trusted or Restricted

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Internet Explorer's-Internet Options dialog box provides access to several options.This tab allows you to control the types of pages that users can navigate to

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Content tab

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Internet addresses are made up of three parts.Which one of these options is not one of them?

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Link

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A computer network

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Describe a communications system connecting two or more computers together.

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The indvidual in charge of making sure the organization's network functions the way it is supposed to is usually the

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Network administrator

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You need to increase your processing rights.Who would you contact to change these rights?

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Network administrator

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In a telecommunications networks,modems:

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Switch external and internal voice and data transmissions over telephone lines with an office or other work area.

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A telephone modem can be described as

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A device that connects your computer to existing phone line so that you can access another computer or network.

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A communications processor that converts between digital and analog signals for transmissions over a telephone line is a(n)

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Modem

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The conversion from an analog signal to a digital signal is called

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Modulation

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To connect a PC to the office network,its machine must have one of these cards installed.

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PCMCIA

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Transmission medium is simply something that allows computers and other devices to exchange information.This includes

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All of the above.

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The purpose of a switch is to

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C

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The purpose of a router is to

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Forward data from one network to another

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The easiest and most inexpensive way to network your way to network your computers is through a(n):

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Peer-to-peer network

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You want to change the identity of your computer on the network. Who would you contact to change this?

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Network administrator

Front 46

In the Windows XP Paint program,the Undo option allows you to undo up to the

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Last three actions

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In the Windows XP Paint program,you can perform many manipulations.This manipulation is like pulling on opposite corners of the picture

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Skew