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ISP100 Second Hour Exam, Spring 2002(1)

Name ______

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  • Write your name clearly on the first page of the exam.
  • Bubble in your name and ID and the exam version on the answer sheet
  • Bubble in the appropriate letter on the answer sheet for each of the 50 questions.

1. Northern Light provides newspaper sources to:

  1. Google
  2. LookSmart
  3. Open Directory Project (ODP)
  4. AltaVista
  5. Yahoo

2. The Open Directory Project is associated with

  1. Google and WebMap
  2. AltaVista and Yahoo
  3. Lexis-Nexis and Google
  4. Google and AltaVista
  5. AltaVista and WebMap

3. Which of the following has the cleanest (most simple) home page design?

  1. AltaVista
  2. Yahoo
  3. Google

4. Which of the following is a major heading when you first login to Lexis-Nexis?

  1. Shopping
  2. Real Estate
  3. Mail
  4. Broadcast Events
  5. Legal Research

5. Which of the following has the largest database of indexed Web pages?

  1. AltaVista
  2. WebMap
  3. Google
  4. Lexis-Nexis
  5. Yahoo

6. Under U.S. copyright law and FCC regulations, search engines must reveal:

  1. “relevance” criteria used by the query processor
  2. HTML source code of Web pages
  3. fees paid by advertisers to influence placement of “hits”
  4. all of the above
  5. none of the above

7. Which of the following is present on the given home page?

  1. banner ads on Lexis-Nexis
  2. astrology and news links on Yahoo
  3. links to help pages on Google
  4. tabs for image search on Yahoo
  5. directory headings on Alexa

8. Which of the following is most similar to the “W/n” operator in Lexis-Nexis?

  1. + and – in Yahoo
  2. WITHOUT in Google Advanced
  3. + and – in AltaVista (simple)
  4. Web news in Yahoo and Google
  5. NEAR in AltaVista Advanced

9. If search engines had personalities, which one might be described as “arrogant”?

  1. AltaVista (simple)
  2. AltaVista Advanced
  3. Google
  4. Lexis-Nexis
  5. Yahoo

10. Which of the following are used for nested searches?

  1. ( and ) on AltaVista Advanced
  2. < and > on AltaVista Advanced
  3. ( and ) on Google
  4. [ and ] on Google Advanced
  5. + and - on Yahoo

11. The exclamation point (!) in Lexis-Nexis acts like which of these characters in a Web search string?

  1. +
  2. -
  3. ~
  4. *
  5. none of the above

12. The asterisk (*) in Lexis-Nexis acts like which of these characters in a Web search string?

  1. |
  2. =
  3. #
  4. none of the above

13. The following result (hit) is most likely to have been returned by:

Sunday Mail (SA), August 19, 2001, Sunday, NEWS; Pg. 24, 253 words, Aussie shepherd makes comeback

  1. AltaVista
  2. Google
  3. Lexis-Nexis
  4. Yahoo Category Match
  5. Inside Yahoo Match

14. The following result (hit) is most likely to have been returned by:

AustralianShepherd
... National Breed Club Rescue Page Did you know? Date entered into Regular Classes:
January 1, 1993 The AustralianShepherd probably originated in the Basque ...
- 30k - Cached - Similar pages

  1. AltaVista
  2. Google
  3. Lexis-Nexis
  4. Yahoo Category Match
  5. Inside Yahoo Match

15. The following result (hit) is most likely to have been returned by:

USASA Australian Shepherd Home Page
Welcome to the Official Home Page of the United States Australian Shepherd Association ... the Official Home Page of the United States Australian Shepherd Association an affiliate of The American Kennel ...
• Related pages • Translate
More pages from

  1. AltaVista
  2. Google
  3. Lexis-Nexis
  4. Yahoo Category Match
  5. Inside Yahoo Match

16. The following result (hit) is most likely to have been returned by:

•Canada > Australian Shepherd Dogs > Miniature Australian Shepherd Dogs

  1. AltaVista
  2. Google
  3. Lexis-Nexis
  4. Yahoo Category Match
  5. Inside Yahoo Match

17. The most important instructions (commands) in HTML are called:

  1. categories
  2. tags
  3. matches
  4. maps

18. Most HTML instructions appear in pairs like this:

  1. begin command… end command
  2. (command)… (/command)
  3. <command>… </command>
  4. +command… -command
  5. *command… */command

19. All Web pages begin and end with an HTML command called:

  1. img
  2. body
  3. title
  4. head
  5. html

20. Instructions can be given to a spider or crawler immediately following this command:

  1. img
  2. body
  3. title
  4. head
  5. html

21. The most important difference between a scholarly online journal and a scholarly Web site is:

  1. how frequently new articles appear
  2. how expert the authors are
  3. how soon the articles are indexed by search engines

22. Which of the following should be excluded from the text of an annotation?

  1. the title of the source
  2. a paraphrase of the title
  3. an extensive quotation
  4. all of the above

23. The most important thing a reader of your annotation can learn is:

  1. whether or not to read the source
  2. what it contains
  3. whether it is authoritative
  4. what you thought of it

24. If you find that one of your sources is very biased, you should:

  1. choose a different source
  2. ignore the bias in your annotation
  3. describe the bias as part of your annotation
  4. feel free to express your own biases in the annotation

25. An “ordinary” Web page is one that:

  1. consists solely of text (no images, sound files, etc.)
  2. cannot be reached by a search engine spider
  3. was prepared by paid editors
  4. can be easily read with a browser or common plug-in (e.g., Windows Media Player)

26. An example of invisible Web pages that are ordinary, but inaccessible, would be those that:

  1. invoke the Robots Exclusion Protocol
  2. are in the “disconnected pages” of the Bow Tie model
  3. have banner ads on search engine home pages
  4. link to the ISP 100 home page on hawk

27. Web page developers (authors) may not want their sites indexed because of:

  1. frequent changes of page content
  2. extra load on the Web server
  3. content is available only for a fee
  4. all of the above

28. Zipped, executable, and Postscript files are:

  1. ordinary, but inaccessible
  2. technically accessible, but economically inaccessible
  3. ordinary, but ephemeral
  4. components of databases and therefore truly invisible

29. Which of the following is not an example of a Web site where you probably prefer to sign in?

  1. ebay.com
  2. towerrecords.com
  3. nytimes.com
  4. amazon.com

30. Web sites such as amazon.com with large databases may be avoided by spiders/crawlers because of:

  1. the “infinite regress” problem of endless hyperlinking
  2. complex pages with Flash and Shockwave graphics
  3. the fact that there aren’t really any “pages” there to index
  4. the forms (dialog boxes, etc.) that are the only way to reach the data
  • There are four matching sections. In each one, use the letter from the right column that best matches each word or phrase on the left. Each letter is used exactly once in each section.

Part I. These five questions (31-35) refer to the order in which Yahoo returns different kinds of information, if available, for a search (“highest” = first on the page of results)

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31. Highest priority

32. Second priority

33. Third priority

34. Fourth priority

35. Lowest priority

  1. Web page matches
  2. Sponsor matches
  3. Inside Yahoo matches
  4. Web site matches
  5. Category matches

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Part II. These five questions (36-40) refer to kinds (or sources) of information that are available on each of the five sites.

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36. AltaVista

37. Google

38. Yahoo

39. Alexa

40. library.albany.edu

  1. Internet Archive
  2. Usenet (newsgroups) archive
  3. ADVANCEWeb
  4. Audio and video search
  5. Email

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Part III. These five questions (41-45) refer to prominent phrases that are used on each of the five sites.

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41. AltaVista

42. Google

43. Lexis-Nexis

44. WebMap

45. library.albany.edu

  1. Download the Toolbar
  2. Academic Universe
  3. I’m Feeling Lucky
  4. The Search Company
  5. Databases & Online Journals

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Part IV. These five questions (46-50) refer to the main advantage of each of the five resources.

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46. AltaVista

47. Alexa

48. Lexis-Nexis

49. WebMap

50. Inktomi

  1. powerful queries
  2. caching
  3. visual directory
  4. largest archive
  5. current news

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