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Q: The second step in an indexed search is called query ________.

Q: Words on the Web page, along with ________ text within tags, e.g., <title>, are used by the search engine crawler.

Q: To locate pages containing multiple words, the query processor fetches the index lists for each of the terms, and ________ the lists, finding URLs that are in all of the lists.

Q: To leave a term out of a search, you would need to use the ________ logical operator.

Q: Using ________ around words in a search makes the search engine look for an exact match.

Q: ________ and "subtracting" search terms removes extraneous hits.

Q: Information found by the crawler of a search engine is organized into a(n) ________.

Q: The ________ of a search engine visits Web sites in order to index their contents.

Q: The fact that Web posts are ________ that is, no one limits what people postis generally good.

Q: When picking additional sources, be careful to choose ________ sources.

Q: A(n) ________ source is a person who has direct knowledge of the information.

Q: A(n) ________, built by the crawler, is a list of tokens (such as words) that are associated with the page.

Q: A(n) ________ is a collection of computer programs that helps us find information on the Web.

Q: Logical operators can be combined and grouped using: A) parentheses B) curly brackets C) square brackets D) plus and minus

Q: The query processor processes an AND query by: A) crawling B) intersecting C) removing duplicates D) using a GUI

Q: Which research practice will help ensure that highly reliable information is obtained? A) Question the information. B) Never rely on a single source. C) Assess the site's authoritativeness. D) All of the above

Q: In a search engine, the index is built by the: A) indexer B) crawler C) query processor D) linker

Q: A weakness of Wikipedia is that: A) it covers a limited number of topics B) it contains timely information C) the content is not validated by experts D) editing of content is highly restricted

Q: What type of information comes from experts? A) information on the Web B) authoritative information C) information found in a library D) information found in Google's Advanced Search

Q: Identify a method used to find authoritative information. A) Obtain the information needed from Wikipedia. B) Choose information from respected organizations. C) Choose reports from tertiary sources. D) Seek a single online source.

Q: One example of descriptive text is anchor text, which is: A) a textual description of a picture B) a phrase within <title> tags C) highlighted link text, specified inside <a"¦> tags, describing the page to which it links D) included within a <meta"¦> tag

Q: Searching for "baseball" AND ("stadiums" OR "parks") AND NOT "national parks" would look for: A) baseball and stadiums and parks, not national parks B) baseball or stadiums or parks, not national parks C) baseball stadiums or baseball parks and would omit national parks D) none of the above

Q: A search using the logical operator OR requires: A) one of the words to be found on the page B) both of the words to be found on the page C) both words to be found together on the page D) none of the above

Q: If quotes surround the search phrase, "human powered flight," the search would find pages associated with the: A) word human B) word powered C) word flight D) exact phrase human powered flight

Q: A search engine consists partly of a: A) link and a crawler B) snoop and a bull's-eye C) crawler and a query processor D) spider and a web

Q: Which of the following is an effective technique in using the hit list? A) Check every hit by opening the link. B) Randomly select the links to open. C) Skim top-level information and decide which links to explore further. D) All of the above

Q: A Google search results include a snippet for each Web page in the list. What is a snippet? A) text between the page's <title> tags B) a preview of what might be on the page C) the site's URL D) none of the above

Q: In a Web search, a match to a query is known as a(n): A) intersection B) hit C) URL list D) none of the above

Q: Which search technique will help avoid over constraining? A) Add as many descriptive words as possible. B) Begin with an inclusive search and add more words one at a time. C) Include a general topic term. D) Remove terms from the search using NOT.

Q: The order in which "hits" are returned to a page is determined by: A) page rank B) page order C) anchor text D) meta data

Q: The crawler considers almost anything followed by an asterisk symbol to be a token, except short words like a, an, and the.

Q: For a word to describe a page, the word doesn't actually have to be on the page.

Q: Search engines crawl only a fraction (probably less than half) of the Web.

Q: When a basic query with multiple words is performed, the pages returned by the query contain one or more of the search words.

Q: To make the task of intersecting multiple lists a little easier, the URL lists are alphabetized.

Q: Using Google's Advanced Search, a search may be filtered further by specifying a site or domain, e.g., .edu.

Q: A "hit" on a page does not necessarily mean the search terms were found on that page.

Q: When using Google, tilde (~) can be used as an abbreviation for NOT.

Q: Never accept information on the Web as authoritative.

Q: The main work of a crawler is to build an index.

Q: Search engines are able to answer user queries very quickly because crawling is a very speedy process.

Q: The query processor looks up tokens or search terms in the index.

Q: Search engines, e.g., Google and Bing, do not allow you to enter search terms using natural language.

Q: It is usually acceptable to write queries in the form, (cherry OR grape OR lime) AND banana, using uppercase letters for the logical operators and parentheses to make the associations clear.

Q: No one organizes the information posted on the Web.

Q: Crawlers consider descriptive text when adding the page's URL to the index.

Q: It is not advisable to perform a site search to find information.

Q: As the query processor is putting together the hit list, the URLs found by the intersecting process are sorted by their page ranking, lowest to highest, and returned to the user in that order.

Q: The library has very little information which is not also available on-line.

Q: Styles that depend on changeable state are assigned using ________.

Q: The opposite of a backslash is a(n) ________.

Q: If the anchor tag's hover state is styled, its style command must come after the________.

Q: In HTML the word inside of angle brackets of an element's tag, e.g., body from <body>, is a(n) ________.

Q: ________ are stylistic characteristics of a Web page that can be set using the style attribute or tag.

Q: In HTML, text that is enclosed between <pre> and </pre> tags is ________.

Q: A(n) ________ is a family of styling specifications in CSS given a common name.

Q: ________ give the complete URLs in a hyperlink reference.

Q: ________ is a system for globally styling Web pages written in HTML.

Q: The highlighted text indicating the presence of a hyperlink is called the ________.

Q: A(n) ________ is the name for a Web address of a page a user will go to when they click on a hyperlink.

Q: A user clicks on a(n) ________ to navigate from one Web page to another.

Q: To be accessed from other computers on the Internet, the HTML files, the image files, and the directory structure created for them must be ________ (transmitted) to a Web server.

Q: A grid of cells on a Web page is called a(n) ________.

Q: If the color of a paragraph is specified as green in the external style sheet, red in the header's style section, and blue in the style attribute of the paragraph tag itself, the paragraph will be A) blue B) red C) green D) black

Q: In the style specification td.important { color: red }, the important is A) an attribute B) a class C) an extension D) a color

Q: The boxes in the box model, from inside out, are: content, _______, border and margin. A) extra B) stuffing C) padding D) expansion

Q: Computer experts call spaces, tabs and blanks that have been inserted for readability: A) alignment B) white space C) embedded space D) tags

Q: A family of styling specifications with a common name is called a: A) tree B) HTML document C) text document D) class

Q: The HTML tag for bold text is: A) <bb></bb> B) <bld></bld> C) <b></b> D) <i></i>

Q: To create a Web page with a list of HTML commands and their tags, it would be best to use: A) an ordered list B) an unnumbered list C) a definitional list D) a table

Q: A letter with an accent mark, for example, , is displayed using the: A) accent symbol B) escape symbol C) special symbol D) mark symbol

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Q: The tags used to specify table headings/column headings are: A) <hd> and </hd> B) <ch> and </ch> C) <cd> and </cd> D) <th> and </th>

Q: CSS considers every HTML5 element to be enclosed in a: A) page B) body C) box D) folder

Q: When an image is inserted next to text in an HTML document, keep in mind that generally: A) text cannot be placed on the same line as the image B) images are inserted in the text where specified by the HTML and the text is aligned with the bottom of the image C) images are in the text where specified by the HTML and the text is aligned with the right of the image D) the size of the text is automatically adjusted to fill the area beside the image

Q: Which of the following will display the rocket.jpg file on the page if the image is stored in the same folder as the page? A) <img "rocket.jpg"/> B) <img src rocket.jpg/> C) <img src= "rocket.jpg" /> D) <img src "rocket.jpg"/>

Q: Software for which the source code is publicly available is called: A) open source B) public code C) free source D) HTML

Q: The preferred way to specify a break that continues the text on the next line in a Web page is: A) by pressing the 'enter' key B) <linebreak> C) <br /> D) <br></br>

Q: Which of the following tags is not required on a Web page? A) </html> B) <body> C) <head> D) </hr>

Q: The title that appears on the title bar of the browser is specified using: A) title tags B) pagename tags C) html tags D) body tags