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Windows 95 User Self-Evaluation Quiz.

Being able to use the Windows 95 Graphical User Interface is a MUST HAVE skill. This short quiz will test your knowledge in this area. Passing with a 75% or better means that you know your way around Windows 95! If you do not score that high, then you should probably start you're new learning adventure with our course on Windows 95.

Multiple-Choice Questions

Click on the answer you think is correct.

Each time you make a choice, the computer will calculate your score. If you get a question wrong, you can try again. However, once you get a question right, you will not be able to answer it again; you will have to go on to the next one.

Your score is calculated by dividing the number of correct answers by the number of attempts you have made.


1. In Windows 95, the term desktop refers to:
   a) The main workspace on the computer screen.
   b) The physical space where your PC resides.
   c) The root directory of your "C" drive.
   d) The graphic which is displayed on the main screen.

2. The picture below represents what?

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   a) The Windows Function Bar
   b) The Windows Task Bar
   c) The Windows Control Panels
   d) Windows Explorer

3. In all Windows applications, there is a menu at the top of the window, which allows you to pick certain functions to perform. That menu is known as as __________.
   a) Options Menu
   b) Selection Menu
   c) Preferences Menu
   d) Pull-down Menu

4. All files in Windows are represented by an Icon. All installed applications can be started by finding the icon for that applications .EXE file and double-clicking on it. To make it easier to find, copies of this icon can be placed on the Desktop and other places. This copy is known as a _____________.
   a) Clone
   b) Phantom
   c) Shortcut
   d) Pseudo Icon

5. The Windows desktop has a default appearance and color scheme. These defaults can be modified using what Control Panel utility?
   a) Display
   b) System
   c) Color
   d) Monitor

6. From below, choose the proper method to shutdown a Windows 95 Computer.
   a) Close all open programs. Click on the Start button and select "Exit Windows and return to MS-DOS". Once in DOS, power off the machine.
   b) Close all open windows. From the task bar select Start then Shutdown. Select "Shutdown".
   c) Close all open windows. Power off the computer.
   d) Right-click on the desktop and select "Shutdown".

7. In any open window on the Desktop, there are three control buttons in the upper right of the window. The dash, the window, and the X as seen in the picture below. Which one would you click on in order to minimize the open window, making it disappear from the desktop, but still leaving the program running?

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   a) The Dash
   b) The "Window".
   c) The "X"
   d) None of the above.

8. Using Windows Explorer, how do you create a new directory on your hard drive?
   a) From the Windows Explorer pull-down menu select Files, then select New then select Directory.
   b) From the left-pane in Explorer, right-click on the icon for the drive where you want to create the new directory and select New, then select Directory.
   c) From the Windows Explorer pull-down menu select Edit, then select New Directory. Enter the path to the new directory and name it.
   d) From the Windows Explorer, highlight the drive where you want to create the directory, or highlight the directory where you want to create a sub-directory. From the pull-down menu select Files, then select New then select Folder.

9. You have just installed a SCSI adapter, and now your sound card stops working. What can you do to see which resources are conflicting with one another?
   a) Select Start > Settings > Devices.
   b) Select Start > Settings > Control Panel > System icon. Within the system control panel click on the Device manager tab.
   c) Select Start > Settings > Control Panel > Device Manager
   d) Select Start > Settings > Control Panel > SCSI

10. The picture below is of Windows Explorer. Some of the folders have a + sign next to them. What does this + sign indicate?

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   a) The folder is compressed.
   b) The folder has files underneath it.
   c) The folder has sub-folders.
   d) The folder is a copy of another folder.

11. How can you display a graphical picture of the used/unused space on a hard drive?
   a) In Windows Explorer, highlight the drive in the right-pane. A picture of it's current allocation will appear in the left-pane.
   b) On the desktop, double-click on "My Computer". right-click on the drive in question and select Properties. A graphical display if the drives disk space allocation will be shown.
   c) click on the Start button and select Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Disk Administrator. The Disk Administrator tool will show you a graphical display of your drives space allocation.
   d) In Windows Explorer, highlight the drive in question and from the pull-down menu select View > Space Allocation.

12. In Windows 95, if you delete a file, what really happens to it?
   a) It is not actually deleted. It goes into a special folder called the "Recycle Bin".
   b) It is deleted and the disk space it occupied is over-written.
   c) It is not actually deleted. It goes into a special folder called the "Trash Bin"/
   d) It is deleted from the File Allocation Table, but since the actual bits remain, it can be "un-deleted" until the space is over-written by another file.

13. In Windows, certain applications are linked to certain types of data files. for Example, Microsoft Word documents with the .DOC extension are associated with WORD.EXE. This is known as a file association. How can you view the current file associations within your system?
   a) Right-click on any file and select Properties. The application it is associated with will be listed in the properties.
   b) In Windows Explorer, from the pull-down menu select View > Folder Options. Click on the File Types tab. All of the file associations will be displayed.
   c) Click on the Start button and select Settings > Control Panel > System. In the System Control panel click on the File Associations tab.
   d) Click on the Start button and select Settings > Control Panel > Files. In the Files Control panel click on the File Associations tab.

14. Internet Explorer 4.0 came with a desktop upgrade called the _______________. This allows you to more closely integrate your desktop with the World Wide Web.
   a) Enhanced Desktop
   b) Web Desktop
   c) Power Desktop
   d) Active Desktop

15. Windows 95 helps you protect the data on your hard drive by supporting which of the following RAID configurations?
   a) RAID 0
   b) RAID 1
   c) RAID 5
   d) None of the above.

16. When configuring your hard drive, how many primary partitions does Windows 95 support.
   a) 1
   b) 2
   c) 3
   d) 4

17. What DOS-based utility can you use to create/delete partitions on your hard drive?
   a) Format
   b) SYS
   c) FDISK
   d) RDISK

18. To change the actual system time on the computer, you must...
   a) Select Start > System > Control Panel > Date/Time. In the Date/Time utility, change the date and time appropriately.
   b) Go to a command prompt and use the DATE command to change the date and time.
   c) During the boot process, enter the BIOS configuration for your computer and change the date and time there.
   d) Reboot the machine and enter the proper date and time when asked.

19. An the left-and side of the task bar, there are several icons sitting inside a frame. One is a little speaker which controllers the speaker volume. What is this area knows as?
   a) The Shortcuts window
   b) The System Tray
   c) The mini-task bar
   d) The quick-start menu.

20. If your Windows 95 computer is part of a network, to make files available to other people on the network, you must _________ the folders they reside in.
   a) Open
   b) Multiplex
   c) Ghost
   d) Share

 
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