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57 Cards in this Set
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What should you use to find user-specified information in Internet databases?
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Search engine
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What enables an operating system to access databases from various vendors?
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Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
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How is a many-to-many relationship between two database tables established?
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By creating two one-to-many relationships with a junction table
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An information portal is a search engine that will only find:
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Web sites that have been registered with search engines.
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A common field is a field that can be found in:
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two or more related database tables.
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What is the term for a field in a related database table that refers to the primary key in the primary table?
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Foreign key
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Which type of database table relationship is the most common?
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One-to-many relationship
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How can database information be provided to users via the Web?
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By connecting a Web server to a database server
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The catalog that is queried when you conduct a Web search using a search engine is called a:
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search index.
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In which type of Web search does the search engine display a list of categories and subcategories that you can browse?
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Directory search
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In databases, what is a one-to-one relationship?
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A relationship in which each record in Table A can have only one matching record in Table B, and vice versa
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What is the best way to find the exact information you need from the vast amount of data on the Internet?
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By using Web search engines and search techniques
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To understand Web search engines, you must understand:
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basic database concepts.
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What is the term for a collection of data that can be sorted and searched using search algorithms?
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Database
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What is the term for a category of information in a table?
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Field
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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?
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Record
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What is the term for a database that contains multiple tables of information that can be joined through common fields?
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Relational database
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You should create a relational database in order to:
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eliminate data duplication.
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How is a table relationship established?
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By matching data in key fields between two database tables
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What is the term for a field containing a value that uniquely identifies each record in a database table?
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Primary key
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In databases, what is a one-to-many relationship?
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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 one matching record in Table A
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In databases, what is a many-to-many relationship?
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A relationship in which one record in Table A can relate to many matching records in table B, and vice versa
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What can users input to selectively view and analyze data from a database?
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A query
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Which language should you use to create and maintain large relational databases?
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Structured Query Language (SQL)
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What should IT professionals use to store, access and manipulate corporate database information?
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Database management system (DBMS)
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What is used to process data submitted by a user by passing data back and forth between a server and an application program?
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Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
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What would a search engine use to reference a Web site?
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Keyword
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What is a tag?
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An HTML element used in a Web page to embed information for use by search engines
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What is the term for a software program that scans Web pages for information used to identify the Web page?
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Meta search engine
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In which type of keyword search can you enter any search string in a search engine to query an index?
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Full-text search
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Although search engines have the ability to search for and index the contents of various file types, on which file type do search engines traditionally focus?
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
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What search engine uses your social network (Facebook and Twitter) to find more relevant information for your query?
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Bing
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In addition to allowing keyword searches, which of the following search engines also allows conceptual searches?
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Excite
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When using multiple Boolean operators to conduct an Internet search, how can you indicate the order in which the Boolean phrases should be considered?
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Use parentheses to combine Boolean phrases.
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What general rules should you follow when entering keywords in search engines?
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Use all uppercase letters when typing Boolean operators.
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What is typically an example of secondary resources?
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Biographies
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What is the purpose of using Internet research tools such as Zotero?
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They enable you to organize the information you find and store it on your local hard drive.
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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?
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Yahoo!
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When specifying keywords to conduct an Internet search, which of the following parts of speech will be the most useful?
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Nouns
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Why would you use quotation marks in a search string when conducting an Internet search?
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To narrow your search to yield Web pages that contain only the keywords as they appear together in the specified order
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In addition to ranking the relevance of a particular site according to the keywords entered by the user, which search engines also determines a site's relevance based upon the number of links that point to it?
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Google
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What is a Boolean operator?
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A symbol or word used in Internet searches to narrow search results by including or excluding words or phrases from the search criteria
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What will Internet search results contain when you use the AND Boolean operator in a two-keyword search string?
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Both keywords
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What will Internet search results contain when you use the OR Boolean operator in a two-keyword search string?
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One keyword or the other or both
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Which Boolean operator should you use if you want to specify Internet search results that exclude the keyword that follows the operator?
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NOT
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In which instance would using an advanced Web search technique be most appropriate?
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When conducting an Internet search for a complex subject, or to narrow the results of a standard search
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Which of the following is true about using the Internet to perform job tasks?
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Search engines are useful for finding any type of data you need from the Internet.
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Error pages most commonly occur when you:
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click a dead link.
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Unexpected Web pages and advertisements most commonly occur when you:
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click a link for a site that was added to a search engine's database by its spider program.
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What can you use to help you determine how closely a site matches the topic for which you are searching?
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A relevancy score based on how frequently your specified keywords are found in the site
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What open information sources are students sometimes told to avoid retrieving information from because it is considered non-authoritative or unverified?
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Wikipedia
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Which type of online resource is one in which content is subject to review by anyone?
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Open peer-reviewed
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Which type of online resource accepts input only from scholars and recognized authorities?
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Authoritative peer-reviewed
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What is typically an example of primary resources?
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Physical objects and relics
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What would be considered a popular resource as opposed to a scholarly resource?
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Newsweek
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When evaluating the accuracy and value of information you have found on the Internet, you should:
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discern between fact and opinion.
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Why should you properly cite information that you obtain from an Internet search?
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To avoid plagiarizing someone else's work
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