Application software

Question 1

What is application software?

Answer 1

Application software is end-user software used to accomplish a variety of tasks.

Question 2

What are the different types of application software?

Answer 2

General-purpose applications, specialized applications, and mobile apps.

Question 3

What are general-purpose applications?

Answer 3

Word processing programs, spreadsheets, presentation software, and database management systems.

Question 4

What are specialized applications?

Answer 4

Programs focused on specific disciplines and occupations.

Question 5

What are mobile apps?

Answer 5

Mobile applications are programs designed for cell phones and tablets.

Question 6

What is user interface?

Answer 6

User interface is the portion of the application that allows users to interact with the program.

Question 7

What is GUI?

Answer 7

Graphical user interface is used by most general-purpose applications, which displays graphical elements also called ‘icons’ to represent objects.

Question 8

What is an icon?

Answer 8

An icon is a graphical element that represents familiar objects.

Question 9

What is a pointer?

Answer 9

A pointer is controlled by the mouse and used to select items such as icons.

Question 10

What is a window?

Answer 10

A window is a rectangular area that can contain a document, program, or message. Multiple windows can be opened and displayed on a screen at a time.

Question 11

What is included in standard GUI?

Answer 11

Menus, tool bars, and dialogue boxes.

Question 12

What is a menu?

Answer 12

A menu is typically displayed in a menu bar at the top of the screen.

Question 13

What is a tool bar?

Answer 13

Tool bars appear below the menu bar and include bottons.

Question 14

What are buttons?

Answer 14

Buttons are small graphical elements that provide shortcuts to commonly used commands.

Question 15

What are dialogue boxes?

Answer 15

Dialogue boxes provide additional information and request user input.

Question 16

What is included in ribbon GUI?

Answer 16

Ribbon GUI, which is mainly used in microsoft applications, includes ribbons, tabs, and galleries.

Question 17

What is a ribbon?

Answer 17

Ribbons organize commonly used commands into sets of related activities, replacing toolbars and menus. These activities are displayed as tabs and appear in the first ribbon.

Question 18

What is a tab?

Answer 18

Tabs divide the ribbon into major activity areas and are then organized into groups that contain related items.

Question 19

What is a group?

Answer 19

A group is a collection of related tabs.

Question 20

What is a gallery?

Answer 20

Galleries provide additional options and simplify choosing an option by showing the effect.

Question 21

What are some common features?

Answer 21

Some common features include the spell checker, alignment, font and font sizes, character effects, edit options, and find and replace.

Question 22

What is a spell checker?

Answer 22

A spell checker looks for misspelled words.

Question 23

What is alignment?

Answer 23

Alignment centres, right aligns, or left aligns characters and numbers.

Question 24

What is fonts and font sizes?

Answer 24

Fonts and font sizes specify the size and style of the entered characters and numbers.

Question 25

What is character effects?

Answer 25

Character effects provide a variety of type faces such as bold or italics.

Question 26

What is edit options?

Answer 26

Edit options provide easy ways to edit text such as cut, copy, and paste.

Question 27

What is find and replace?

Answer 27

Find and replace searches a document for a specific word or phrase. It also includes the ability to replace the word/phrase with something else.