CHAPTER 3: APPLICATION SOFTWARE
Prepared by: Group 2
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. One of the more powerful features of spreadsheet software is its capability of
__________ the rest of the worksheet when data in a worksheet change.
a. Calculation
b. Recalculation
c. Computing
d. Solving
Answer: (B) Recalculation
2. It serves as the interface between the user, the application software, and the
computer’s hardware.
a. Utility Program
b. Application Software
c. System Software
d. All of the above
Answer: (C) System Software
3. It is computer-generated images and films. It also combines many content types
such as text, audio, photos, animations, video, and interactive material.
a. Paint/Image Editing Software
b. Multimedia Authoring Software
c.
Graphics and Multimedia Software
d. Video and Audio Editing Software
Answer: (C) Graphics and Multimedia Software
4. It is a simplified accounting program that helps home users and small office/home
office users balance their checkbooks, pay bills, track personal income and
expenses track investments, and evaluate financial plans.
a. Legal Software
b. Personal Finance Software
c. Tax Preparation Software
d. Desktop Publishing Software
Answer: (B) Personal Finance Software)
5. The term is often used more specifically for software that helps a business to
accomplish specific goals through the applied principles that the software supports.
a. Software
b. Database Software
c. Business Software
d. Spreadsheet
Answer: (C) Business Software
6. With this software, you can view, organize, sort, catalog, print, and share digital
photos.
a. Desktop Publishing Software
b. Personal paint/image editing software
c. Photo Management Software
d. Personal Photo editing software
Answer: (C) Photo Management Software
7. Online Help is the electronic equivalent of a _________.
a. Help information
b. Web-based training
c. E-learning
d. User manual
Answer: (D) User Manual
8. This software includes various simplified tools that allow you to draw pictures,
shapes, and other images; and provides the capability of modifying existing
graphics and photos.
a. Personal Finance Software
b. Tax Preparation Software
c. Desktop Publishing Software
d. Personal paint/image editing software
Answer: (D) Personal paint/image editing software
9. It enables professional designers to create sophisticated documents. It is ideal for
the production of high-quality color documents.
a. Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
b. Desktop Publishing Software (DTP)
c. Web Page Authoring Software
d. Graphics and Multimedia Software
Answer: (B) Desktop Publishing Software (DTP)
10. It is a type of system software that assists users with controlling or maintaining the
operation of a computer, its devices, or its software.
a. Utility Program
b. Operation Software
c. Application Program
d. Utilities
Answer: (A) Utility Program
11. It provides a means for sharing, distributing, and searching through documents by
converting them into a format that can be viewed by any user.
a. Accounting software
b. Business software for phones
c. Document management software
d. Enterprise Computing Software
Answer: (C) Document management software
12. It is a rectangular area of the screen that displays data and information.
a. Desktop
b. Menu
c. Window
d. Title Bar
Answer: (C) Window
13. It describes a type of application software that records and processes accounting
transactions within functional modules such as accounts payable, accounts
receivable, journal, general ledger, payroll, and trial balance.
a. Accounting software
b. Business software for phones
c. Document management software
d. Enterprise Computing Software
Answer: (A) Accounting software
14. Software that can be very helpful when you want to go places.
a. Personal Finance Software
b. Tax Preparation Software
c. Travel and Mapping Software
d. Video and Audio Editing Software
Ans: (C) Travel and Mapping Software
15. It is a Web site that allows users to access and interact with software from any
computer or device that is connected to the Internet.
a. Application software
b. Web browser
c. Database software
d. Web applications
Answer: (D) Web applications
16. Software that allows you to create a realistic vision of your home improvement
project by allowing you to build the floorplan, set wall coloring, and add furniture
and other design features.
a. Video and Audio Editing Software
b. Clip Art/Image Gallery Software
c. Travel and Mapping Software
d. Home Design/Landscaping Software
Answer: (D) Home Design/Landscaping Software
17. It is mass-produced, copyrighted retail software that meets the needs of a wide
variety of users, not just a single user or company.
a. Packaged Software
b. Custom Software
c. Accounting Software
d. Web Application
Answer: (A) Packaged Software
18. It allows users to modify audio clips, produce studio quality soundtracks, and add
audio to video clips.
a. Video and Audio Editing Software
b. Multimedia Authoring Software
c. Graphics and Multimedia Software
d. Computer-Aided Design
Answer: (A) Video and Audio Editing Software
19. It is software provided for use, modification, and redistribution. This software has
no restrictions from the copyright holder regarding modification of the software’s
internal instructions and its redistribution.
a. Freeware
b. Shareware
c. Open-Source Software
d. Public Domain Software
Answer: (C) Open-Source Software
20. It is a graphical element that you activate to cause a specific action to occur.
a. Menu
b. Button
c. Title bar
d. Command
Answer: (B) Button