oDesk Readiness Test for Independent Contractors and Staffing Managers (2014)

Question – 1: A good profile includes which of the following?

a. Your full name, title and photo.

b. An overview that lets potential clients know what you can do for them.

c. A few completed skill tests to demonstrate your expertise.

d. Well-written text that has a positive tone, is grammatically correct, and is spelled properly.

e. All of the above

Ans: e

Question – 2: Before you apply for a job, what question should you ask yourself?

a. Do I have the right skills and experience for this job?

b. Do I have the tie available to complete this job?

c. Do I think the offered rate is acceptable?

d. All of the above

Ans: d

Question – 3: oDesk charges clients 10% of what they pay on your contract.

a. True
b. False

Ans: a

Question – 4: What do you need to be successful on oDesk?

HINT: Everything you need to know is in the contractor Manual!

a. A fast, reliable internet connection and an up-to-date internet browser

b. A work-only email account and a free skype account

c. A basic understanding of the English language.

d. A ready-to-work attitude, a strong set of skills and an entrepreneurial spirit.

e. All of the above

Ans: e

Question – 5: what is one smart way to prove you’re right for the job?

a. Offer to work for free

b. Ignore the client’s invitation to interview

c. Offer to do a short, paid “test project” to show you have the necessary skills.

d. Send a cut and paste cover letter full of spelling errors.

e. Beg them to hire you because you really need the money.


Ans: c

Question – 6: What is the secret to being a highly successful freelancer on oDesk?

a. Communicate early, communicate often

b. Provide honest and realistic project updates.

c. Respond quickly and hit deadlines.

d. Listen to your client’s concerns and have a positive attitude.

e. All of the above

Ans: e

Question – 7: What kind of profile image works best for attracting clients?

a. A picture of me smiling, because it’s considered more trustworthy and pleasant

b. An illustrated image of my favorite animal.

c. A picture of me wearing a baseball hat and dark sunglasses.

d. My company’s logo

Ans: a

Question – 8: Which of the following is TRUE about fixed-price jobs?

a. Fixed-price jobs are not covered by the oDesk Guarantee

b. Payment is at the client’s discretion.

c. Fixed-price jobs are generally smaller and are paid upon completion.

d. Terms of the job are agreed upon before work begins.

e. All of the above.

Ans: e

Question – 9: Which of the following is TRUE about hourly jobs?

a. The client is billed only for hours worked

b. Work time is logged through oDesk Team App.

c. Your time is covered by the oDesk Guarantee that an hour worked is an hour paid.

d. All of above

Ans: d

Question – 10: Which statement about the Team App is False?

a. The Team App lets you track your time for hourly jobs.

b. The Team App takes work-in-progress snapshots at random times in 10-minutes intervals.

c. The Team App must be used for fixed-price contracts.

d. The Team App records the total numbers of keystrokes and muse clicks.

Ans: c

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oDesk skill test 2014 : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Question 1: What will the following robots.txt file do?
•    User-agent: Googlebot
•    Disallow:/*?
•    User-agent: scooter
•    Disallow:
a. It will allow Google to crawl any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also allow the AltaVista scooter hot to access every page
b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages It will also disallow the AltaVista scooter hot from accessing any page.
c. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will allow the AltaVista scooter bot to access every page
d. None of the above

Ans: b

Question 2: What does the 302 server response code signify?
a.It signifies conflict, too many people wanted the same file at the same time
b.The page has been permanently removed
c.The method you are using to access the file is not allowed
d.The page has temporarily moved
e.What you requested is just too big to process

Ans: d

Question 3: Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the description meta tag?
a. It should be about 50 characters in length
b. The description should not contain the keywords
c. If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
d. Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages

Ans: c & d

Question 4: State whether true or false.
The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial sites.
a. True
b. False

Ans: a

Question 5: Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?
a. Bing

b. Yahoo

c. Google

Ans: c

Question 6: Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?
a.Images cannot be spidered by the search engines
b.Important keywords related to the image should be placed in the ALT text
c.Images should always be kept close to the top of a webpage
d.Image maps should be used while including the images

Ans: b

Question 7: Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a.Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c. Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d.Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors

Ans: c & d

Question 8: Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?
a. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic
b. Alexa and Quantcast provide information on visitor household incomes
c. Alexa is biased towards US based traffic
d. Quantcast only tracks people who have installed the Quantcast toolbar

Ans: a

Question 9: Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?
a. 3-5%

b. 2-3%

c. 3-4%

Ans: c

Question 10: 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?
a. The text of the paid links should state the words “paid text link” for Google to identify it as a paid link
b. Only Paid text links to non profit websites should be accepted
c. Paid links should be disclosed through the “rel=nofollow” attribute  in the hyperlink
d. Paid links should be disclosed through the “index=nofollow” attribute  in the hyperlink

Ans: C

Question: 11 Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
a. Hiding text on the webpage
b.Stuffing keywords on the webpage
c.Linking to sites banned by Google
d. None of the above

Ans: a

Question 12: Which of the following statements about Google technical and quality guidelines is  true.
a. It is advantageous if your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP heade
b. If using dynamic pages, it helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few
c. Avoid using robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages, even if they don't add much value for users coming from search engines
d. Submitting new pages of your website at http://www.google.com/addurl.html as soon as they are online, helps to speed up indexing

 

Ans: b

Question 13: Which of the following statements about Google’s technical and quality guidelines is true?
a. It is advantageous if your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP heade
b. If using dynamic pages, it helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few
c. Avoid using robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages, even if they don’t add much value for users coming from search engines
d. Submitting new pages of your website at http://www.google.com/addurl.html as soon as they are online, helps to speed up indexing

Ans: b

Question 14: Which of the following are examples of agents?
a. Internet Explorer
b. Search engine spiders
c. Opera

Ans: b

Question 15: Which of the following is an ethical SEO Technique?
a.Creating a subdomain with the hottest keyword and creating duplicate copies of existing pages on it
b. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d. None of the above

Ans: d

Question 16: All major search engines are case sensitive.
a.True
b.False

Ans: b

Question 17: While optimizing your website it is important to generate the right type of traffic, how does the Bounce Rate information help in this regard?
a. By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then went on to visit additional pages
b. By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then left without viewing any other page
c. By letting you know the percentage of users who decided to go back to the source from where they found your website
d. By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page

Ans: b

Question 18: Implementing a 301 Permanent Redirects on the old pages to redirect to the new pages is a good idea from the SEO perspective.
a. True
b. False

Ans: b

Question 19: Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?
a.The number of websites that link to it
b.The number of pages of the website indexed by Google
c.The number of pages in the website
d.The quality of websites that link to it

 

Ans: a,b,c & d

Question 20: Search engines do not index some common words (such as “or”, “and”, “when”, and “in”) within the webpage. What are these common words called?
a. Barrier words
b. Non-indexable words
c. Slow words
d. Stop words

Ans: d

Question 21: What does the 301 server response code signify?
a. Not Modified
b. Moved Permanently
c. syntax error in the request
d. Payment is required
e. The request must be authorized before it can take place

Ans: b

Question 22: Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines?
a. Using automated website submission software
b. Loading pages with irrelevant links
c. Intentionally adding keywords to the TITLE tags and ALT attributes
d. Registering misspellings of well-known websites

Ans: b & c

Question 23: Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?
a. It is a form of XML
b. tstands for Realtime streamlined syndication
c. It is a good way of displaying static information
d. It is a Microsoft technology

Ans: a

Question 24: _________ is usually the best web page to get linked to while receiving a themed in-bound link from another website.
a. The sitemap
b.The contact page
c.The home page
d. The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings

Ans: d

Question 25: Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?
a.Targeting synonyms of the main keyword
b.Targeting the highest searched keywords only
c.Copying competitor keywords
d. ofive or more keywords per page

Ans: a & d

Question 26: If your site is not appearing in Google search results because of some unethical SEO practices in the recent past, ____________.
a. abandon and close your website permanently. 
b. modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site. 
c. start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results. 
d. it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name. 

Ans: d

Question 27: Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:
a. Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engine looks at the keyword 
b. Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines 
c. search engine robots follow the first link they find to any particular page and they do not follow additional links to the same page 
d. It is not a good idea to have the same anchor text for all inbound links as it could look automated to the search engines

Ans: a,b & d
  
Question 28: A Hallway Page is used to:
a. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page 
b. Organize the Doorway Pages 
c. Help people navigate to different Doorway Pages 
d. Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages 

Ans: d
  
Question 29: 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”? 
a. Yahoo Search Term Suggestion Tool 
b. Alexa 
c. Google Traffic Estimator 
d. Google Trends 
e. WordTracker 

Ans: e

Question 30: Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages 
ans:clustering
  
Question 31: How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
a. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement 
b. Ggives credit to the websites having site maps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title “Site Map” on the home page of a website. 
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website 
d. None of the above 

Ans: c
  
Question 32: State whether the following statement is true or false.
A Sitemap provides a list of internal links to user accessible pages on a website. 
a. True
b. False 

Ans: a
  
Question 33: What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
a. It helps to retrieve web pages from the world wide web 
b. It helps to gather information from other search engines 
c. It helps to sort the documents that Google has retrieved 
d. It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user’s search term 
  

Ans: d

Question 34: Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
a. The website offering products and services to the visitors country 
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords 
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term 
d. Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term 

Ans: d
  
Question 35: State whether the following statement is true or false. A sitemap provide a list of natural links to user accessible pages on a website.
a. True 
b. False 

Ans: a
  
Question 36: Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to Yahoo. What is performed by the link: operator?
a. It shows all the outbound links from the URL 
b. It shows how many pages of the site Yahoo is pointing to 
c. It shows all the pages that point to that URL 
d. It shows URLs with broken links 

Ans: c
  
Question 37: Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google PageRank?
a. The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site 
b. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site 
c. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site 
d. The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site 

Ans: a

Question 38: What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a. Red hat techniques 
b.Silver hat techniques 
c. Grey hat techniques 
d.Shady hat techniques 

Ans: c
  
Question 39: Why is it a bad idea from the seo perspective to host free articles and write ups that are very common on the internet.
a. Because they will not lead to fresh traffic 
b. Because you could get penalized by search engines for using duplicate content 
c. Because you will not get the benefits of proper keyword targeting 
d. Because people could turn up claiming copy right infringement 

Ans: b

Question 40:  The following robots meta tag directs the search engine bots:
<META NAME=”robots” CONTENT=”noindex, nofollow”>
a. Not to index the homepage and not to follow the links in the page 
b. Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page 
c. To index the page and not to follow the links in the page 
d. Not to index the page but to follow the links in the page 

Ans: b

Question 41:  Which of the following statement is correct with regard’s to the images within a web page?
a.Images can not be spidered by the search engine (check) 
b. Important keywords related to the image should be plcaed in the ALT text 
c. Images should always be kept close to the top of a web page 
d. Image maps should be used while including the images 

Ans: b

Question 42: _______ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
a. Crawler-based Search Engines 
b. Human-Powered Directories 
c. Hybrid Search Engines 
d. Meta Search Engines 

Ans: d

Question 43:  Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?
a.They are two way links (reciprocal links) 
b. They are from authority websites 
c. They are voluntary in nature 
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites 

 

Ans: c

Question 44:  What will happen if you type the words ‘Certification -Networking’ in the Google search box? 
a.Google will find the web pages about Certification and also containing the word “Networking” 
b. Google will find all the web pages containing the words “Certification” and “Networking” 
c. Google will find all the web pages in which the words “Certification” and “Networking” appear together 
d. Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking 

Ans: d

Question 45:  If you enter ‘Help site:www.microsoft.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for? 
a.It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.expertrating.com 
b. It will find pages about help within www.expertrating.com 
c. It will only find page titles about help within www.expertrating.com 
d. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.expertrating.com 

Ans: b

Question 46:  Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?
a. They are greatly beneficial to SEO 
b. They are also called link farms 
c. They are paid listings 
d. They contain numerous inbound links 

Ans: b

Question 47:  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?
a.Spreading 
b. Dilating 
c. RSD (real time synonym detection) 
d. Stemming 
e. Branching 

 

Ans: d

Question 48:  If a website’s search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?
a. 20% of the webpages of the website have been indexed by the search engine 
b. Only 20% of the pages of the website will be indexed by the search engine 
c. 20% of the websites pages will never be indexed 
d. The website ranks in the first 20% of all websites indexed by the search engine for its most important search terms 

Ans: a

Question 49:  What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?
a. There are more long tail searches than shorter keyword queries 
b. Search engines often pass on long tail searches to lesser known and new websites 
c. Search engines do not pass on long tail search traffic to websites that rank high for shorter keyword searches 
d. There are fewer websites that have targeted such keywords 

Ans: a

Question 50:  people do a web search. In response, they see links to a variety of web pages. Three of the 10 people choose one particular link. That link then has a __________ click through rate.
a. 20 percent

b. 30 percent 
c. more than 30%

d. disclosed through the “rel=nofollow” attribute  in the hyperlink

Ans: d

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