Search Engine Optimization(SEO)

 

01. Question: Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?
Answer: Yahoo Directory

02. Question: Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
Answer: If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version

03. Question: What is Keyword Density?
Answer: The number of times the keyword is used / (DIVIDED BY) the total word count on the page

04. Question: Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:
Answer: It is possible to create and submit specialized Sitemaps to Google for Video and Mobile content

05. Question: Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google's search results?
Answer:  Yes

06. Question: What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
Answer: It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage   are given priority by the search engines

07. Question: Which of the following factors does Google take into account while assessing whether or not a website is an authority website?
Answer: A,B,C

08. Question: What is Anchor Text?
Answer: It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page

09. Question: If you search for the term "iq test" in the Word Tracker keyword suggestion tool, will it return the number of independent searches for the term "iq"?
Answer: Yes

10. Question: What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
Answer: Visitorjacking

11. Question: Do search engines such as Google detect unnatural linking patterns by checking the Class C IP address of the page where the link to the website originates?
Answer: Yes

12. Question: What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
Answer: Waves

13. Question: Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?
Answer: All of the above

14. Question: What does the 302 server response code signify?
Answer: It signifies conflict, too many people wanted the same file at the same time

15. Question: Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage's Title Tag.
Answer: 56

16. Question: What does the 302 server response code signify?
Answer: What you requested is just too big to process

17. Question: Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the description meta tag?
Answer: Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages

18. Question: State whether true or false.
Answer: True

19. Question: Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?
Answer: Important keywords related to the image should be placed in the ALT text

20. Question: Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
Answer: Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines

21. Question: Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?
Answer: Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic

22. Question: Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing page rank. If a website sells links, what action/s does Google recommend to avoid being penalized?
Answer: Paid links should be disclosed through the "rel=nofollow" attribute  in the hyperlink

23. Question: Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
Answer: Hiding text on the webpage

24. Question: Which of the following statements about Google's technical and quality guidelines is true?
Answer: If using dynamic pages, it helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few

25. Question: Which of the following is an ethical SEO Technique?
Answer: None of the above

26. Question: All major search engines are case sensitive.
Answer: False

27. Question: While optimizing your website it is important to generate the right type of traffic, how does the Bounce Rate information help in this regard?
Answer: By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then left without viewing any other page

28. Question: Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?
Answer: A,B,C,D

29. Question: Search engines do not index some common words (such as "or", "and", "when", and "in") within the webpage. What are these common words called?
Answer: Stop words

30. Question: Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines?
Answer:B,C

31. Question: Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?
Answer: It is a form of XML

32. Question: _________ is usually the best web page to get linked to while receiving a themed in-bound link from another website.
Answer: The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings

33. Question: Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?
Answer: A, D

34. Question: If your site is not appearing in Google search results because of some unethical SEO practices in the recent past, _________________.
Answer: it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.

35. Question: Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:
Answer: A, B, D

36. Question: A Hallway Page is used to:
Answer: Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages

37. Question: Which of the following free tools/websites could help you identify which city in the world has the largest search for the keyword - "six sigma"?
Answer: WordTracker

38. Question: How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
Answer: Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website

39. Question: State whether the following statement is true or false.
A Sitemap provides a list of internal links to user accessible pages on a website.
Answer: True

40. Question: What is the function of "indexer" part of the Google search engine?
Answer: It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user's search term

41. Question: Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the 'Relevancy' perspective?
Answer: Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term

42. Question: Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to Yahoo. What is performed by the link: operator?
Answer: It shows all the pages that point to that URL

43. Question: Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google PageRank?
Answer: The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site

44. Question: What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
Answer: Grey hat techniques

45. Question: Why is it a bad idea from the seo perspective to host free articles and write ups that are very common on the internet.
Answer: Because you could get penalized by search engines for using duplicate content

46. Question: The following robots meta tag directs the search engine bots:
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">
Answer: Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page

47. Question: _________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
Answer: Meta Search Engines

48. Question: Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?
Answer: They are voluntary in nature

49. Question: What will happen if you type the words 'Certification -Networking' in the Google search box?
Answer: Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking

50. Question: If you enter 'Help site:www.microsoft.com' in the Google search box, what will Google search for?
Answer: It will find pages about help within www.expertrating.com

51. Question: Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?
Answer: They are also called link farms

52. Question: What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query for the word 'actor' will also show search results for related words such as actress, acting or act?
Answer: Stemming

53. Question: If a website's search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?
Answer: 20% of the webpages of the website have been indexed by the search engine

54. Question: What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?
Answer: There are more long tail searches than shorter keyword queries

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Joomla 1.5 test 

01. Question: The index.php file is a combination of HTML and PHP code.

Answer: True

02. Question:  What is the default super administrator account for Joomla called?

Answer: Administrator

03. Question:  Which of the following PHP directives are important to Joomla execution to define an alternate compression library if the standard library is not available?

Answer: extension_dir

04. Question:  Which of the following files is archive and contains the actual CB component that you must install into Joomla while downloading CB?

Answer: com_comprofiler

05. Question:  Which option will you choose to set the site metadata for the installed website?

Answer: Global Configuration

06. Question:  What will happen if we set the SSL enabled option to On?

Answer: This option will make the link from the menu begin with an https://

07. Question:  The core editor events apply to plug-ins that provide editor functionality such as TinyMCE or XStandard Lite.

Answer: True

08. Question:  Which PHP file does the index.php file load to provide the menu bar to the administrator interface?

Answer: Toolbar.php

09. Question:  Which of the given database systems is supported by Joomla?

Answer: Mysql

10. Question: Which of the following is the default editor of Joomla?

Answer: TinyMCE

11. Question:  Joomla provides an abstracted method called getEscaped() that returns the escaped string regardless of the target database.

Answer: False

12. Question:  From which package are the classes (i.e JSite, JAdministrator and JInstallation) which make up the Joomla CMS application extended?

Answer: Installer

13. Question: What is not true about JoomlaXplorer?

Answer: None of the above

14. Question: Which of the following is a system event?

Answer: OnDisplay

15. Question: Which Joomla file provides the central logic of the template, including any module and component display?

Answer: Index.php

16. Question: When will you use SMTP authentication mail settings?

Answer: When you want to use an internal mail server

17. Question: What do you understand by the type of error?

Answer: It means that STRICT_ALL_TABLES is enabled

18. Question: Which path variable holds the path of the currently executing application?

Answer: All of the above

19. Question: Which user events occur with plug-ins that are installed for the front end of the system?

Answer: Both a and b

20. Question: Which type of positioning elements define a concrete area such as a p, td, div or table in a CSS file?

Answer: Block elements

21. Question: Which of the following files does the "/includes" directory not contain?

Answer: None of the above

22. Question:  Which option will you select to install or to add the module to your website?

Answer: C

23. Question: Why does Joomla use templateDetails.xml files?

Answer: All of the above

24. Question: Which of the following events is activated after content rendering is complete for content type plug-ins?

Answer: OnAfterDisplayContent

25. Question:  All the Joomla settings are contained within a PHP class called JConfig.

Answer: True

26. Question: In which PHP file is the central configuration data for Joomla contained?

Answer: configuration.php

27. Question: What is not true about the MD5 hash value?

Answer: Each password in Joomla is stored as a MD5 hash value

27. Question: There are two root classes for the Joomla framework: JFactory and JVersion.

Answer: True

28. Question: Which option will you select to find unpublished articles?

Answer: Article manager

29. Question: What do you understand from the following code?

Answer: SQL statement is executed against the Joomla database to find empty data fields

30. Question: Which SEO settings will you activate to make Joomla article URL shown in picture A appear as shown in picture B?

Answer: B

31. Question: In which option are errors, warnings and references logged?

Answer: None of the above

32. Question: Which type of files can media manager not upload?

Answer: None of the above

33. Question: Which among the following switches display the current version of PHP?

Answer: v

34. Question:  The Joomap extension uses the style-sheets from the currently selected default template to display the sitemap in the site style.

Answer: True

35. Question: Which type of server technology is used by Joomla?

Answer: All of the above

36. Question: Which of the following is not true about the FrontPage Manager?

Answer: You cannot select your content for the FrontPage from all the contents

37. Question: What happens if the Text Separator Field is left empty while using the breadcrumbs module in the module manager?

Answer: None of the above

38. Question: Which of the following support libraries must you include when you are doing a manual compile of PHP to use with Joomla?

Answer: All of the above

39. Question: What is the role of the template metadata file in the system?

Answer: It contains the basic authorship information

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oDesk U.S. English Basic Skills Tes

01. Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates the proper use of apostrophes?
Answer:  Helga borrowed her friend's skates for the day; however, she failed to return them.

02. Question: Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence below without creating a run-on sentence.
It's never too late to learn how to swim ________________ you may fall off a boat! 
Answer:  you never know when

03. Question: Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"I will be moving soon," said Alma.
Answer:  Alma said she would be moving soon.

04. Question: Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence below without creating a run-on sentence.

Mr. Peach has sent his four children to Ivy League colleges __________ he has sacrificed his health working day and night in that dusty factory.
Answer: . ; however,

05.Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates correct verb and verb tense usage?
Answer:  . Until the snow does not melt, the train will not be able to move.

06. Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates correct verb and verb tense usage?
Answer:   Until the snow does not melt, the train will not be able to move.

07. Question: Which of the following sentences does NOT illustrate correct verb and verb tense usage?
Answer:   They was going to sell pastries as well, but then decided against it.

08.Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates correct verb and verb tense usage?
Answer:   Have you seen the cookies that were on my desk? They seem to have disappeared.

09.Question: Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
Julia, who is studying to be _______foreign correspondent, is currently doing _______ internship in _______ Middle East _______ will return before the end of _______ year.

Answer:   a, an, the, but, the

10.Question: Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following sentence.

Charlotte knew ___________ the secret investigation _________ her past, but she closed her eyes to it and pretended it wasn't happening. 
Answer:  of, after

11. Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates correct pronoun usage?
Answer:  All of the above
 
12. Question: Read the following question and choose the response that uses the correct corresponding verb tense.

Did you hear the weather report for tomorrow?
Answer:  No, I wasn't listening to the radio.

13.Question: Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
_______ she was feeling ill, Teresa wanted to eat only _____ apple _____ some soup.
Answer:  Because, an, or

14. Question:  Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
last what ! it's did you night, over After
Answer:  After, it's over what you did last night!

15. Question: Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following sentence.
Jeremy drove his motorcycle _______ the bridge, _______ the hill, and _______ the diner before finally parking it _______ two police cars.
Answer:  across, down, past, between

16. Question: Choose the series of pronouns that best completes the following sentence.
Don't ________ think Larry should call ________ wife if ________ is going to be late for dinner? 

Answer:  you, his, he

17. Question: Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
I think Fran could be ______ great public speaker, _______ she is still too shy to try it.
Answer:  a, but

18. Question: Choose the verb that best completes the following sentence.

Do you know if Harlon ____________Japanese before moving to Japan?
Answer:  has studied

19. Question: Choose the series of verbs that best completes the following sentence.
Alison regrets _________ you with her remarks; she never meant _________ so.
Answer:  to hurt, to do

20. Question: Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
with can't phone . on Whenever always to the time spend I speak I my friend , him
Answer:  Whenever I can't spend time with my friend, I always speak to him on the phone.

21. Question: Complete the following sentence by choosing the phrase with the best word order from the options given. 
Only after they had completed an exhaustive study __________ how to adapt the technology to the needs of our company.
Answer:  they did begin to understand

22. Question: Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
work . is always to brother willing not My
Answer:  . My brother is not always willing to work.

23. Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates proper sentence structure?

Answer:  . Unless the world doesn't control its population, mankind will continue to face one problem after another.

24. Question: Read the original sentence below and then choose the rewritten sentence that illustrates proper sentence structure.
ORIGINAL SENTENCE:
It is easy to carry solid objects, but the same cannot be said of liquids.
REWRITTEN SENTENCES:
Answer:  Unlike liquids, solid objects are easy to carry.

25. Question: Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"It may snow tomorrow," he said.
Answer:  He said it might snow tomorrow.

26. Question: Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
Neither we ________ Sal, our neighbor, could understand ________ it had been our dog Rover or Sal's cat's kittens _________ had destroyed all the flower beds in the middle of _______ night.
Answer:  nor, whether, that, the

27. Question: Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"It may snow tomorrow," he said.
Answer:  He said it might snow tomorrow.

28. Question: Which of the following sentences does NOT illustrate correct verb and verb tense usage?
Answer:   The Imagist movement in poetry is commonly regarded as having begun in the early twentieth century.

29. Question: Complete the following sentence by choosing the phrase with the best word order from the options given. 
The excited children, who had run toward the loud _____________ .
Answer:  music, are telling to the others about the ice cream truck outside

30. Question: Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
sleeping likes the . midday Katie until on weekends

Answer:  Katie likes sleeping until midday on the weekends.

31. Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates the proper use of parallel construction?
Answer:  Andrea is incapable of walking and to talk at the same time.

32. Question: Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"Sharon must go to the bank today," said Albert.
Answer:  Albert said Sharon had to go to the bank today.

33. Question: Which of the following sentences is NOT punctuated correctly?
Answer:  All of the apple's at the grocer's were rotten, so I bought oranges instead.

34. Question: Choose the series of verbs that best completes the following sentence.
Everyone __________ too busy cooking and __________ the campsite __________ the family of bears __________ from the woods. 
Answer:  was, setting up, to notice, watching

35. Question: Read the following question and choose the response that uses the correct corresponding verb tense.
Did you see the show last night?
Answer:  No, because by the time I got there all the tickets had already been sold.

36. Question: Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
Lilacs ______ violets are usually purple, ______ I have seen some ______ are white.
Answer:  and, however, that

37. Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates the proper use of parallel construction?
Answer:  Trina loved to sail, skate, swim, and surfing.

38. Question: Choose the series of verbs and phrases that best completes the following passage.
This dish _________ too spicy. Why __________ so much pepper?

Answer:  a and c

39. Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates the proper use of commas?
Answer:  a and b

40. Question: Which of the following sentences illustrates correct verb and verb tense usage?
Answer:  Somehow, all of the newspapers gotten hold of the story.


41. Question: Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following sentence.
I placed my notes _______ my desk and referred to them _______ the meeting.
Answer:  upon, around

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