Windows 10 Basic Concepts

Test your general knowledge of working with Windows 10.

This test contains 20 mulitple choice questions. When you have finished answering the questions, click the View your results button at the buttom of this page. Your test results and the correct answers are shown immediately on your screen. With a score of sufficient or greater, you can receve the Computer Certificate by email if desired.

Good luck!

Test questions:

1. What happens when you click this button ? 

A list of choices appears The window will be minimalized A dropdown menu appears

2. Which button do you use to close a window?

3. What is this window called in Windows 10? 

Control Panel Account management Settings

4. What is this part of Windows called?

Programbar Toolbar Taskbar

5. How do you drag a window to another spot in Windows 10?

Place the pointer on a blank area of the window, double-click and begin dragging Place the pointer on one of the corners of the window, click the left mouse button and drag the window Place the pointer on the title bar of the window. Press the left mouse button and drag the window to the desired spot

6. What happens when you click this button ?

Window is reduced Window is enlarged Task View is displayed, showing all my open windows

7. How do you open a program from the desktop?

Click the icon Place the pointer on the icon Double-click the icon

8. What does it mean when the pointer changes into a hand ?

It is a program It is a section that can be dragged It is a hyperlink that can be clicked

9. What is this screen called?

Desktop Login screen Control Panel

10. What does the light-blue underlining indicate by a taskbar button on the taskbar?

The program is closing right now The program will be opened when you start Windows The program is opened

11. What happens when you click this button ?

The window disappears from the desktop, but is still opened The window will be just as wide as the screen The window will be reduced to its original size

12. What can you do with this button ?

Reduce the size of a window Maximize a window Minimize a window

13. When does this bar appear on the right or bottom of a window?

When the information does not fit into the window When a window is minimized When multiple windows are opened

14. What taskbar button can you click to open a program for arranging files and folders?

15. How do you display a minimized program back on the desktop?

Double-click the desktop Drag the taskbar button to the desktop Click the taskbar button

16. What happens when you click this button ?

The window will be enlarged The window will be minimized The window will be reduced

17. How do you widen a window?

Press one of these arrows on your keyboard Double-click next to the left or right edge of the window Place the pointer on the left or right edge of the window, then drag outwards

18. What command in Windows is commonly associated with the word cut?

Paste Delete Save

19. Can multiple programs be opened at the same time in Windows?

Yes No

20. What happens when you right-click a folder in File Explorer?

A menu with commands will be opened The folder will look different The files in that folder will be opened