Questions and CORRECT Answers
What can you use to help you determine how closely a site matches the topic for which you are
searching? - CORRECT ANSWER - A relevancy score based on how frequently your
specified keywords are found in the site
What is a reason for creating a relational database? - CORRECT ANSWER - To store,
categorize and analyze a complex set of information.
What is the term for a collection of information consisting of one or more related fields about a
specific entity, such as a person, product or event? - CORRECT ANSWER - Record
Which of the following would be considered a popular resource as opposed to a scholarly
resource? - CORRECT ANSWER - Newsweek
What is a search index? - CORRECT ANSWER - A catalog consisting of many Webpage
references
Which of the following is used to process data submitted by a user by passing data back and
forth between a server and an application program? - CORRECT ANSWER - Common
Gateway Interface (CGI)
Drag the Boolean operator from the bottom onto its action. - CORRECT ANSWER -
specified word = + ----------------------- proximity to each other = NEAR -----------------at least
one of the words = OR ------------------variations in spelling = * --------------------------
In addition to ranking the relevance of a particular site according to the keywords entered by the
user, which of the following search engines also determines a site's relevance based upon the
number of links that point to it? - CORRECT ANSWER - Google
, What is the purpose of a Boolean operator? - CORRECT ANSWER - To narrow search
results by including or excluding words or phrases
Which of the following search engines was originally intended to be an index providing several
links relating to topics on the Internet that were of interest to the two founders? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Yahoo!
A one-to-one database table relationship can best be described as a table relationship in which: -
CORRECT ANSWER - each record in Table A can have only one matching record in
Table B, and vice versa.
Which of the following is true about using the Internet to perform job tasks? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Search engines are useful for finding any type of data you need from the
Internet.
What kind of software do vendors such as IBM, Computer Associates, Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase
and MySQL provide mainly to IT professionals so they can store, access and manipulate
corporate database information? - CORRECT ANSWER - Database management systems
(DBMSs)
When browsing websites, error pages most commonly occur when you: - CORRECT
ANSWER - click a dead link.
Which of the following would a search engine use to reference a Website? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Keyword
How can database information be provided to users via the Web? - CORRECT ANSWER -
By connecting a Web server to a database server
A database can best be described as: - CORRECT ANSWER - a collection of data that can
be sorted and searched using search algorithms.