Miscellaneous Flashcards
What are different styles of text called?
Fonts
3 advantages of using a spreadsheet over pen and paper
Faster
Less space needed
Can produce lots of copies
Adjusting a font’s WHAT size can change the size of the text?
Point
What is spell-check?
Uses a built in dictionary to check spellings in text.
How can text be rearranged?
Cut and paste
How can graphics be included with text?
Importing
What is clipart?
Built in library of pictures
What is word-wrap?
Word processor begins a new line whenever one is needed.
What is justification?
Adds extra spaces to a block of text to line it up in a certain way.
What is DTP?
Desktop publishing. Uses processor to produce professional publications.
What form does DTP software display publications in?
WYSIWYG
What sort of storage device is an external hard drive?
Magnetic
Why can’t you simple send an email to the other person’s computer where it can be stored on their disk drive?
They must be logged onto their system
What is junk mail?
Unsolicited advertising or promotional material received through the post or email
What is a web browser?
An application that displays web pages
What is an e-mail package?
Interface for sending emails
What is an ISP?
Internet Service Provider
Needed to access the internet. Provides webspace & email also
List 3 services provided by an ISP
Webspace
Internet access
Email
Why is it cheaper to conduct business over the internet?
Fewer employees
Less paper needed
Why is it useful for a school to have its prospectus on a website?
Cheaper (Printing)
More convenient for parents & prospective students
What is a workstation?
Computer connected to a network
What is a file server?
A networked computer that provides large amounts of shared storage, can be accessed by workstations on the same network
What is a user identity?
Username can identify you and distinguish between users who access or use it. Used within an IT system.
What is a password?
A string of characters that a user can use to log onto a network or computer to access certain files.
What does log on mean?
To use a username and password to gain access to a network of files on a computer.
A computer can be WHAT or networked?
Stand Alone
What are the main computers that control networks called?
Servers
Why are special security measures needed on a network?
Protect data
Stop certain users accessing sensitive files
Describe 2 measures to protect data on a network?
Firewall -> Stops inappropriate data passing in or out of the Hub and terminals
Username & password -> Allows certain users different levels of access to certain files on the network
What is an address bar?
Allows user to enter web address/URL.
What is a URL?
Uniform Resource Locator
What is HTTP?
HyperText Transfer Protocol
Used to exchange information
Example of a top level domain name?
.org
Example of a second level domain name?
wikepedia.org
What is .uk an example of?
Country level domain name
What is mailto?
URLs that invite user to write an email to a specific address
What is ftp?
URLs that allows users to upload files to servers
What is the navigation bar?
Allows user to go back and forward in their history
Reload a page using refresh button
Set a home page
What are the bookmark & favourites?
Keep a list of their favourite websites
What is a search engine?
Scans internet pages for text typed into the search bar.
Some browsers use a spider or webcrawler. This constructs an index of pages.
What do meta tags allow?
Allow people to create web pages to specify special words in the heading of an html page.
What is the history button?
Browser keeps list of web pages previously visited. User controls how long they are kept.
What are tabs?
Allows users to browse web pages in the same window.
What is private browsing?
Any websites visited aren’t stored. No cookies or internet files are stored on the computer either. Useful when using public computers to not leave data behind.
What can browsers provide?
Button which takes user to their email home page
Button which opens an interactive chatroom
Button which will print page being viewed
What can the user do in relation to filtration in browser software?
Provide settings for content & language
List of websites which may not be viewed
Set home page & decide how long history pages kept
