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Which of the following enables an operating system to access databases systems from various vendors?
a) Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
b) Structured Query Language (SQL)
c) Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
d) Database management system (DBMS)

What is a search index?
a) A database of all meta data in Websites
b) A list of keywords used on webpages
c) A catalog consisting of many Webpage references
d) The home page of Website designed to search other Websites

When browsing websites, error pages most commonly occur when you:
a) click a link for a site that was added to a search engine's database by its spider program.
b) click a dead link.
c) use parentheses in your search string.
d) enter search criteria using Boolean operators.

What is the purpose of using Internet research tools such as Zotero?
a) They flag questionable or non-authoritative resources for you.
b) They flag bias in the compilers of online information.
c) They automatically compare information you obtain online with information found in print.
d) They enable you to organize the information you find and store it on your local hard drive.

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?
a) Database management system (DBMS)
b) Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
c) Structured Query Language (SQL)
d) Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)

How is a table relationship established?
a) By eliminating duplicate data among two or more tables in a database
b) By creating a database consisting of multiple tables
c) By matching data in key fields between two database tables
d) By ensuring that duplicate data exists among two or more tables in a database

Which of the following are typically an example of primary resources?
a) Textbooks and reference books
b) Physical objects and relics
c) Newspapers and magazines
d) Biographies and histories

What is the best way to find the exact information you need from the vast amount of data on the Internet?
a) By consulting Websites you know that relate to the topic you seek
b) By consulting a database not connected to the Internet
c) By using Web search engines and search techniques
d) Generally, you cannot find exactly what you seek on the Internet

Which of the following would a search engine use to reference a Website?
a) Elements
b) Keyword
c) Meta data, Tags, Elements, hyperlinks, embedded media
d) Embedded Media

An information portal is a search engine that will only find:
a) Websites that have been registered with search engines.
b) Websites that do not contain meta tags.
c) Websites that have not been registered with search engines.
d) Websites that contain meta tags.

When specifying keywords to conduct an Internet search, which of the following parts of speech will be the most useful?
a) Nouns
b) Articles and prepositions
c) Modifiers
d) Verbs

Which type of database table relationship is the most common?
a) Many-to-one relationship
b) Many-to-many relationship
c) One-to-one relationship
d) One-to-many relationship

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?
a) Database
b) Record
c) Table
d) Key

What is the term for a field in a related database table that refers to the primary key in the primary table?
a) Foreign key
b) Common key
c) Related key
d) Secondary key

Why would you use quotation marks in a search string when conducting an Internet search?
a) To broaden your search to yield Webpages that contain all of the keywords contained within the quotation marks in any order
b) To narrow your search to yield Webpages that contain only the keywords as they appear together in the specified order
c) To broaden your search to yield Webpages that contain any one or more of the keywords
d) To narrow your search by eliminating Webpages that contain the keywords in the specified order

Which of the following open information sources are students sometimes told to avoid retrieving information from because it is considered non-authoritative or unverified?
a) Wikipedia
b) Encyclopedia Britannica
c) Modern Language Association
d) Library of Congress

In databases, what is a one-to-many relationship?
a) A relationship in which no common field exists
b) A relationship in which a record in Table A can have multiple matching records in Table B, but a record in Table B has only
c) A relationship in which one record in Table A can relate to many matching records in table B, and vice versa
d) A relationship in which each record in Table A can have only one matching record in Table B, and vice versa

How is a many-to-many relationship between two database tables established?
a) By joining two related tables to a primary table
b) By creating two one-to-one relationships with a junction table
c) By creating two one-to-many relationships with a junction table
d) By creating two separate databases related by two or more common fields

In which type of Web search does the search engine display a list of categories and subcategories that you can browse?
a) Keyword search
b) Catalog search
c) Directory search
d) Full-text search

What will Internet search results contain when you use the OR Boolean operator in a two-keyword search string?
a) Neither keyword
b) Both keywords only if you enclose them in quotation marks
c) Both keywords
d) One keyword or the other or both

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