Computer Solutions Pre-Assessment

What does a computer allow you to do?

• Type documents and send email
• Browse the Internet
• Store and retrieve data
• All of the above

Applications can be downloaded from the Internet.

• True
• False

The cloud allows you to ________.

• access your email from any computer with an Internet connection
•  automatically back up your data
• easily bring your files with you
• do all of the above

Instead of a mouse, many laptops use a(n) ________.

• optical drive
• touchpad
• scanner
•  laser pointer

Software is any set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do.

• True

• False

Which of these can you do with a computer?

• Write letters

• Surf the web

• Process data

• All of the above

PROGRAM

• a set of instructions that achieves an objective

• adding a few blocks of code at a time and testing the program

• the view seen by the end user

• data bases and user data

Computer programs or applications that tell a computer what to do is called ________.

• Play Store
• Software
• Hardware
• Application Manager

Which of the following is not a peripheral?

• mouse
• monitor
• keyboard
• motherboard

The physical parts of the computer are called _______.

• software
• hardware
• computer parts
• computer case