The Higher Technological Institute (HTI)

Final Exam Evaluation

Department of: Basic science
Subject: Research & Analysis Skills Code: Hum 109
Examiner: Dr/ Abdelmoneim Saleh
Date: 27/2/2021 Day: Saturday Month: February Year: 2021

Answer the following questions:

Q1:- State whether the following statements are true or false. [a1, a4, b3, c3] (20 Marks)

Nontraditional sources of information might be better when searching for contemporary and
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controversial topics (T)
2 A metasearch engine is a finding tool that does not have its own database. (T)

3 A tilde ~ after the domain type usually indicates an personal web page of that organization’s site (T)

4 The quotation tends to broaden a search while command “OR” tends to narrow a search (F)

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5 Exite.ru is the most popular search engine in Russia (F)

6 Scientists share their experiments and findings to learn from each other’s (T)
2. After someone have possible answers about a certain problem from his research, he need to test all of
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these answers. (F)
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8 Its preferable to use only one search engine when searching in web (F)

9 One of the most important weakness of any organization is the legislation (F)

10 Science is knowing something without needing evidence. (F)

4. Searching for title: Physics will look for the word Physics in the link of a Web page
11 (F)
5. Internal truncation cannot be used to retrieve variations in spelling that result in words of different
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lengths. (T)
6. SWOT analysis help you to think of solutions for problems for an existing business or new venture. (T)
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7. Environmental Uncertainty refers to the degree of change in an organization’s environment only (F)
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8. Managers prefer to operate in the least uncertain environment.

15 (T)
9. Lower-level managers handle the routine decisions themselves and pass upward only decisions that
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they find unique or difficult. (T)

17 Stakeholders include internal and external groups (T)

 Electronic meeting is the most recent approach to the nominal group technique. (T)
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10. In the Nominal group technique, the group members required to operate independently (T)
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11. Good data management will make your organization being proactive not reactive
20 (T)

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 Q2:-Choose the best correct answer: [a2, b1, b2, b3] (20 Marks)

21. …………of internet source refers to the reliability and credibility of the source.

a Appropriateness b Authority c Usability d Objectivity

i. 22....…..is a specialized search engine that indexes a collection of discussion forums and Usenet newsgroups

a Opinion engine b News engine c Ad bidding engine d Answer engine

ii. 23. Searching on “NeXT” in a case-sensitive search engine will find pages that contain ……….

a next and neXT b Only NeXT c NeXT and NEXT d both (a, c)

24. The pages and links that excluded from most search engines by policy or because search engine spiders
cannot access them are referred to as........

a Invisible Web b Dead links c Spiders d Metasearch links

25. The domain of "57357" web site may be..........

a Com b Org c Int d Gov

26. The advanced search commands can restrict the returned results by..........

a Language and Area b Filetype c Range of numbers d All of them

27. In stable environment there are…………………

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a No new or little competitors b Minimum change in components

c Few technological change by current competitors d All of these answers

28. ………….refers to opportunities that are a good fit to the company's strengths.
a S-O strategies b S-T strategies c W-O strategies d W-T strategies

29. …..…decision making rely on basis of experience, feelings and judgment.

a Group b Rational c Intuitive d Boundedly rational

iv. External environment factors that affect the performance of any organization includes……..
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a Human resources b Financial c Physical resources d None of these answers
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31. Many employers using flexible work arrangements such as……………………..
a Freelancers b Individuals who share jobs c Temporary workers d All of these answers

32. Organization stakeholders includes…………….

a Employees and suppliers b Competitors & Unions c Unions and Media d All of these answers

33. The major advantages of electronic meetings are……….

a Anonymity b Honesty c Speed D All of these answers

34. The Boolean command you may use to search for exact phrase is ..........

a OR b AND c Quotation mark D NOT

35. Which one of the following search terms will return the least number of sites and topics

a George Washington b “President George Washington”

c “George Washington” d “George Washington” + president

36. An organization that has few ……….. has a less complex and thus less uncertain environment
a Suppliers b Customers c Competitors d All of these answers

37. Group decisions are more ………….than individual ones

a Accepted b Accurate c Time consuming d All of these answers

38. Low level mangers rely on programmed decisions to solve ……………………… problems
a Unstructured b Structured c Structured and unstructured d None of these answers

39. The ……component of external environment is concerned with trends in population characteristics.
a Demographics b Sociocultural c Political d Global

40. The third step to take the optimum decision is……….

a Allocation of Weights to Criteria b Development of Alternatives
c Analysis of Alternatives d Identification of Decision criteria

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