AIOU Course Code 9207 Quiz 2 Solution Autumn 2024
Information Science in Transit (9207 Code)
Quiz Test 2 (Autumn 2024)
Quiz Test 2 (Autumn 2024)
(I) What is the primary goal of user-centered library services?
a) Enhancing the library’s digital presence
b) Maximizing user satisfaction and engagement
c) Increasing library revenues
d) Promoting library policies
(II) What does information science primarily deal with?
a) Retrieval and processing of information
b) Environmental sciences
c) Storage of data
d) Historical artifacts
(III) What is Cranfield Project?
a) Judging the information sources.
b) Small experiments of indexing literature.
c) ICTs infrastructure development.
d) An IR evaluation experiment.
(IV) The Institute of Information Scientists (IIS) was established to:
a) All of the above
b) Influence the formulation of information policies
c) Develop standards for information management
d) Promote the profession of information science
(V) What is social software in the context of information science?
a) Tools that facilitate social interaction and collaboration
b) Software for storing classified information
c) Business intelligence software
d) Software designed for individual use only
(VI) What is a key challenge in understanding information needs?
a) Users often struggle to articulate their needs
b) Limited access to research tools
c) Over-reliance on outdated library systems
d) Lack of interest in user studies
(VII) Which of the following is a discipline of bibliometrics?
a) All of the above
b) Cybermetrics
c) Informetrics
d) Scientometrics
(VIII) Which metric measures the precision of an information retrieval system?
a) Recall
b) Accuracy
c) Precision
d) F1 score
(IX) Social software can benefit businesses by:
a) Limiting access to shared resources
b) Reducing employee interaction
c) Enhancing collaboration and innovation
d) Increasing isolation among team members
(X) Which principle is central to HCI?
a) Cost reduction in technology
b) Elimination of human error
c) Usability and accessibility
d) Automation of all systems
(XI) Which of the following is a discipline of bibliometrics?
a) Bibliometric
b) Webometric
c) Scient-metric
d) Information seeking
(XII) In 1957 a new political structure for Europe was created, reflected by the ———-.
a) Treaty of European Union
b) UNO Treaty
c) NATO Treaty
d) Treaty of Rome
(XIII) What was a significant historical milestone in library classification systems?
a) Invention of microfilm
b) Introduction of MARC records
c) Launch of digital libraries
d) Development of the Dewey Decimal System
(XIV) A key metric used in webometrics is:
a) Citation analysis
b) Hyperlink analysis
c) Text readability scores
d) Book circulation statistics
(XV) Sociotechnical research in the UK has focused on:
a) Digital government services
b) All of the above
c) Workplace technology integration
d) The role of technology in education
(XVI) The IIS merged with which organization in 2002?
a) International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
b) Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
c) British Library Association
d) Royal Society of Information Scientists
(XVII) Which initiative promotes open access to scholarly publications?
a) Plan S
b) The Berlin Declaration
c) Creative Commons
d) All of the above
(XVIII) Which is an example of a sociotechnical system?
a) A traditional library catalog
b) A self-checkout system in a supermarket
c) A standalone computer program
d) A handwritten ledger
(XIX) STM is an abbreviation of——
a) Scientific, Technical, and Medical Literature
b) Scientific, Technological, and Medical Literature
c) Standard, Technical, and Medical Literature
d) Standard, Technological, and Medical Literature
(XX) When was Cranfield experiments conducted to evaluate IR systems?
a) From 1958 to 1966
b) From 1985 to 1990
c) From 1975 to 1980
d) From 1956 to 1960
(XXI) Governments first began to be concerned with the idea of ‘information policy’, in the modern sense of the term, sometime around the————–.
a) Late 1980s and the early 1990s
b) Late 1960s and the early 1970s
c) Late 1970s and the early 1980s
d) Late 1990s and the early 2000s
(XXII) “Software above the level of a single device” refers to:
a) Applications designed to work across multiple platforms
b) Offline-only applications
c) Software restricted to desktop computers
d) Applications designed only for mobile devices
(XXIII) A common limitation of bibliometric analysis is:
a) Overemphasis on quantity over quality
b) Lack of data visualization tools
c) Excessive focus on book reviews
d) Inability to access digital resources
(XXIV) What is social informatics?
a) Information processing in social networks
b) Social media marketing
c) Informal social gatherings
d) The study of societal impact on information technology
(XXV) In electronic publishing, what is Open Access?
a) Free, unrestricted access to published content
b) Restricted access to published content
c) Limited access to subscribers only
d) Exclusive access for a select group
(XXVI) Information retrieval is commonly regarded as a core component of————–.
a) Information science
b) Information transition
c) ICT infrastructure
d) Informatics
(XXVII) Information is best defined as:
a) Data that is processed and given meaning
b) Knowledge stored in physical formats
c) Raw facts and figures
d) A collection of books
(XXVIII) Which of the following is a key function of health informatics?
a) Eliminating medical errors entirely
b) Standardizing healthcare across all regions
c) Reducing healthcare costs
d) Data collection and analysis for healthcare decision-making
(XXIX) Information seeking behavior is influenced by:
a) User preferences
b) All of the above
c) Social context
d) Technological availability
(XXX) What is a common challenge in the use of controlled vocabularies?
a) Lack of standards
b) All of the above
c) High cost of implementation
d) Overlapping terms
