IT 150G – Old Dominion University – Exam 1 Study Guide and
Key Concepts
AND, OR, and NOT are ______ operators - correct answer ✔✔ Boolean
An article about a painting by Clause Monet is a - correct answer ✔✔ Secondary Source
Boolean logic uses a special mathematical syntax to perform - correct answer ✔✔ Complex
searches
Creating a concept map allows an author to
A. Create a visual design of his/her thinking
B. sort and refocus ideas
C. Do free-thinking for developing research ideas
D. All of the above - correct answer ✔✔ D. All of the above
Most specialty search tools have a _______ link that explains their focus - correct answer ✔✔
Help
Scholarly resources must be - correct answer ✔✔ Written by experts and peer reviewed
Search engine ________ crawl the web - correct answer ✔✔ Spiders
Specialized or specialty search tools - correct answer ✔✔ Find information that is invisible to
traditional search engines
, Subject guides focus your search toward more reliable or _____ resources. - correct answer ✔✔
Expert
The New England Journal of Medicine is a - correct answer ✔✔ Scholarly journal
The _____ is a vast global network of interconnected smaller networks and computers - correct
answer ✔✔ Internet
The deep web ____
A. is not accessible by traditional search tools, or,
B. Has more content than the surface web - correct answer ✔✔ Both
The first step in creating an internet search strategy is - correct answer ✔✔ Define your topic
Two widely accepted _____ are MLA and APA - correct answer ✔✔ Citation formats
Typical words that do not qualify as keywords are known as - correct answer ✔✔ Stop words
_______ search engines are available for a wide variety of topics - correct answer ✔✔
Specialized
________ are mathematical formulas used by search engines to rank web site - correct answer
✔✔ Algorithms
_______ are services to help you locate information on the web - correct answer ✔✔ Internet
Search tools
Key Concepts
AND, OR, and NOT are ______ operators - correct answer ✔✔ Boolean
An article about a painting by Clause Monet is a - correct answer ✔✔ Secondary Source
Boolean logic uses a special mathematical syntax to perform - correct answer ✔✔ Complex
searches
Creating a concept map allows an author to
A. Create a visual design of his/her thinking
B. sort and refocus ideas
C. Do free-thinking for developing research ideas
D. All of the above - correct answer ✔✔ D. All of the above
Most specialty search tools have a _______ link that explains their focus - correct answer ✔✔
Help
Scholarly resources must be - correct answer ✔✔ Written by experts and peer reviewed
Search engine ________ crawl the web - correct answer ✔✔ Spiders
Specialized or specialty search tools - correct answer ✔✔ Find information that is invisible to
traditional search engines
, Subject guides focus your search toward more reliable or _____ resources. - correct answer ✔✔
Expert
The New England Journal of Medicine is a - correct answer ✔✔ Scholarly journal
The _____ is a vast global network of interconnected smaller networks and computers - correct
answer ✔✔ Internet
The deep web ____
A. is not accessible by traditional search tools, or,
B. Has more content than the surface web - correct answer ✔✔ Both
The first step in creating an internet search strategy is - correct answer ✔✔ Define your topic
Two widely accepted _____ are MLA and APA - correct answer ✔✔ Citation formats
Typical words that do not qualify as keywords are known as - correct answer ✔✔ Stop words
_______ search engines are available for a wide variety of topics - correct answer ✔✔
Specialized
________ are mathematical formulas used by search engines to rank web site - correct answer
✔✔ Algorithms
_______ are services to help you locate information on the web - correct answer ✔✔ Internet
Search tools
