2014 Keyboarding Objective

Final Exam Review

1. Where should your textbook be when typing?

To the right

2. How should you keep your wrists when you type?

Wrists are low but not touching the keyboard

3. How should your feet be when typing?

Flat on the floor

4. How should you strike the keys?

Lightly tap each key with the tip of the finger

5. What does SS in your keyboarding book mean?

Single space

6. How many times should space after a period at the end of the sentence?

Two times

7. When typing, how should you move your hands?

Should not move your hands, they hover over the keys and only the fingers

8. When typing, how should your fingers lift off the keys?

No

9. Do you capitalize after using a colon?

no

10. Should you space twice after a comma?

no

11. Where should your fingers rest on the keyboard?

On the home row keys

12. Which finger(s) key 5 and 6?

5—left index

6—right index

13. Which finger(s) key 7, 8, and 9?

7—right index

8—right middle

9—right ring

14. How many times do you space after an exclamation point?

2

15. How do you space when typing $?

none

16. What is the < referred to?

Less than sign

17. The / symbol is called what?

Forward slash

18. Do you space between a left or right parentheses and the copy enclosed?

no

19. How do you key a hyphen and the underline?

For a hyphen, use the right pinkie -

For the underscore, use the shift and the right pinkie ___

20. How do you type the left and right brackets? [ ]

Use the right pinkie for both (no shift needed)

21. Where is the keyboard positioned when you begin typing?

On the home row keys

22. What are the home keys?

Asdf jkl;

23. Which finger do you use to strike the ENTER key?

Right pinkie

24. When a drill or exercise directs you to double-space, how many hard returns should you use?

2

25. What are the proper keyboarding techniques?

Sit up in the chair, wrists held low but not touching the keyboard, fingers lightly touching

the home row keys, only striking the letter needed without moving your hands

26. What are the spacing rules?

One space after a period used in an abbreviation

Two spaces after a period at the end of the sentence

One space after a comma

One space after a semi colon

Two spaces after a colon

Two spaces after other punctuation ! ?

27. What are the letters keyed by the left hand?

Qwertw

Asdfg

zxcvb

28. What are the proper use of a colon ?

Use a colon to separate a sentence fragment

Use a colon when using a list in a sentence

29. How do you release CAPS LOCK?

Strike the cap lock key

30. Tabs are usually set every _________ to the right of the left margin.

½ inch or .5

31. When you are keying figures and symbols, what should you use for the home keys?

Asdf jkl

32. When you are keying figures is keyed with the left little finger?

1

33. What is the proofreader’s mark that indicates that space would be added?

^ up arrow indicates something needs to be added

34. What is a transposed letter?

teh the h and e are transposed or reversed

35. The / is the same key as what?

?

36. Which finger is used to strike the / key?

Right pinkie

37. What symbol keys are the same as the 4?

$

38. How much space should be left between a figure and the % sign?

none

39. What is the symbol for the “at” sign?

@ (shift 2)

40. What symbols do you use the shift key on and what symbols do you not use the shift key on?

With the shift key ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) __ + { } < > ? | ~

Without the shift key ` - = [ ] \ /

41. curved

You should keep your fingers curved and upright over the home keys when typing

42. ENTER

To return to the insertion point to the left margin and move it down to the next line, strike

the enter key.

43. right

You should always strike the Space Bar with your right thumb

44. words

The term gwam is an abbreviation for gross words a minute

45. wordwrap

At the end of a full line, the insertion point moves to the next line automatically; this is

called wordwrap

46. lowercase

When you proofread text and find something that should be keyed in lowercase, you

should write a diagonal line through it and mark it as “lc”

47. three

When you proofread text and find something that should be capitazlized you should

underline the text three time

48. period

The > is the shift of the . key

49. one

Space one times before and after & used to join names.

50. little

Both the ) and the _ symbols are controlled by the right little finger