Comp. Literacy Quiz
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1. Google's main model for generating profit is:
Searches.
Indexing.
Applications.
AdWords.
Question 2. 2. Of the following individuals, who was the most recent to develop information searching tools online?
Otlet
Wells
Bush
Brin
Question 3. 3. While doing online research you enter this wildcard character: M ? Which of the following would be a possible response to your search?
Meet
Feet
Beat
Meat
Question 4. 4. While doing online research you enter this keyword search with a truncation character: man* Which of the following would not be a possible response to your search?
Mansion
Men
Mantle
Manny
Question 5. 5. Famed science fiction writer H. G. Wells once envisioned something to store vast amounts of information. What did he call it?
World Brain
World Wide Web
Universal Decimal Classification
Universal Database System
Question 6. 6. When a video becomes so popular online that people begin tweeting, blogging, and emailing their friends about it, it is called:
gossip.
hits.
viral.
infectious .
Question 7. 7. Which of the following was the first commercial software package to incorporate WYSIWYG as a feature?
WordStar
Framework
Word
WordPerfect
Question 8. 8. Information resources that point the user towards data that they are looking for, and are organized according to a predefined scheme are called:
encyclopedias.
metadata.
markups.
search engines.
Question 9. 9. If you wanted to look up an article from the Chicago Tribune the best place to start would be:
EBSCOHost.
JSTOR.
ProQuest.
NewsBank.
Question 10. 10. Which of the following locations represents the greatest danger in encountering misinformation?
Library
Blogs
University press
Peer reviewed journal