oDesk Virtual Assistant Skills Test Answers 2015
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_________ are the collective values
of a company that are used to evaluate whether the behavior of members of the
organization are considered appropriate and acceptable.
Ans: b) Ethics
_______________ is a good place for
virtual assistants to advertise their services.
Ans: d) Websites
________________ are the values that
people use to decide whether a particular action or behavior is considered appropriate
and acceptable.
Ans: b) Ethics
________________ is a free online
document creation and storage service that allows you to create and share your
work with others online.
Ans: b) Google Docs
_________________ is a virtual
assistant's primary tool for reaching and
communicating with their clients.
Ans: a) Email
_________________ is an online
classified ad website where individuals and businesses can post ads for free,
or for a low fee in some categories and areas.
Ans: a) Craigslist
_________________ programs are
advanced text editing applications that support additional formatting features
to allow for more sophisticated documents.
Ans: a) Word processing
_________________ programs are used
to create newsletters and other image based documents.
Ans: d) Graphics
_________________ provides basic
information including a list of the services you intend to provide and their
prices.
Ans: b) Marketing plan
_________________ provides instant
messaging services.
Ans: c) both a and b. a)
Skype
b) Windows Live
__________________ is used to send
and receive funds from around the world.
Ans: c) PayPal
__________________ is used to send
and receive funds from around the world.
Ans: b) Spreadsheet
___________________ computing is the
use of shared resources, information and software over the Internet rather than
locally on a computer or other de
Ans: d) Cloud
___________________ is developing web
content in such a way that you will increase your search engine ranking, making
it easier for visitors to find you.
Ans: c) Search engine
optimization
____________________ can free up
quite a bit of time that you can turn into billable hours for clients.
AnsP: d) All of the above
____________________ has had many
plugins created for popular website platforms like Wordpress and Joomla, apps
for smart phones and tablets, and tools for use with software programs like
Excel.
Ans: d) StatCounter
___________________ is the use of
shared resources, information and software over the Internet rather than
locally on a computer or other device.
Ans: a) Cloudcomputing
________________________ is a mobile
or remote work-environment equipped with telecommunication links and basic
office furniture, but without a fixed office space.
Ans: c) Virtual office
10 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.
Ans: b) 30 percent
A _______________ is a business set
up by law to act as a single person.
Ans: a) sole proprietorship
A _______________ is a set of one or
more keys that when pressed trigger a specific software or operating system
action.
Ans: a) Keyboard shortcut
A good way to combat procrastination
is to prioritize a daily task list on the basis of ________________________.
Ans: d) ordered list
A package of information about a
business that is given to new clients is called a _______________________.
Ans: d) intro package
A(n)________________ policy covers
monetary damage that a client may suffer if they receive faulty services and
protects the service provider in the event that they are sued.
Ans: a) professional
liability
A(n)_________________ is a short
summary used to describe a product, service or business that can be delivered
within the short span of time.
Ans: a) elevator pitch
A(n)___________________ is a legal
contract that defines the confidential information and knowledge that the
parties wish to share with one another, but also want to be restricted from any
other third parties outside the contract.
Ans: a) independent contractor
agreement
A(n)___________________ serves as the
main point of contact for the company by answering phone calls, taking
messages, scheduling appointments and making travel arrangements.
Ans: a) virtual
receptionist
All of the following are social
bookmarking sites except ____________________.
Ans: b) Digg
An effective communicator should
never ___________________.
Ans: b) blame when speaking
on the phone
An organization should use
_________________ for their bookkeeping system.
Ans: d) All of the above
Basic skills that are required to be
successful as a Virtual Assistant include __________________.
Ans: c) good communication
skills
Cloaking is a controversial SEO
technique. What does it involve?
Ans: a) Increasing the
keyword density on the web pages
Creating a work schedule will help
you to _________________________.
Ans: d) All of the above
Delays in social media communications
are due to __________________.
Ans: b) the individual
Fraud, breach of fiduciary duty,
misrepresentation and unethical acts such as using a client's confidential
information to compete against them are known as ___________.
Ans: c) unfair practices
Google displays up to _____
characters of a webpage's Title Tag.
Ans: c) 66
It makes sense to charge lower fees
for ________________.
Ans: b) simple jobs
Measuring the strengths,
opportunities, weaknesses and threats of an organization is known as
____________________.
Ans: c) SWOT analysis
Press ___________ to paste contents
of clipboard.
Ans: c) Ctrl + V
Press ___________ to search and
replace in a word document.
Ans: a) Ctrl + H
Prices for your services should be
___________________.
Ans: c) dependent on your
experience
Search engines do not index some
common words (such as "or" , "and" , "when" , and
"in" ) within the webpage. What are these common words called?
Ans: d) Stop words
Social media platforms can be used
for __________________________.
Ans: d) All of the above
The _____________ of a website is
very important.
Ans: d) All of the above
The business image for an
organization that caters to entertainers should be _________________________.
Ans: b) business-like and
professional
VAs typically calculate approximately
_________ of their non-billable time to cover business duties like paperwork
and marketing.
Ans: a) 5%
Virtual Assistants must protect all
confidential information that they obtain while working with clients due to
___________________.
Ans: a) Business ethics
Virtual assistants should always
______________________.
Ans: d) All of the above
VoIP services cannot be used for
______________________.
Ans: b) sending faxes
What does updates to Facebook status
resemble most closely?
Ans: b) Posts on Twitter
What is "social media
optimization" ?
Ans: c) Creating short
content which is easily indexed
What is "social media
optimization" ?
Ans: b) Video Blog
What is Anchor Text?
Ans: c) It is the visible
text that is hyper linked to another page
What is Keyword Density?
Ans: e) The number of times
the keyword is used / (DIVIDED BY) the total word count on the page
What is meant by
"micro-blogging" ?
Ans: b) Blogs with limited
individual posts, limited by count typically
What is meant by the concept of
"viral" in social media?
Ans: a) Social media which
is spread to viewers by the customer, growing in popularity
What traditional marketing technique
is YouTube closest to?
Ans: b) Television
advertising
When making lists, it is best to
___________________.
Ans: c) make a list for
each project
When working for a client it is best
to have a(n)__________________.
Ans: b) written contract
Which black hat SEO technique is
characterized by a method to deceive search engines, by detecting the search
engine bot and "feeding" it with a different HTML code than the HTML
actually served to users?
Ans: d) Cloaking
Which of the following activities
could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines?
Ans: c) Internationally
adding keywords to the TITLE tags and ALT attributes
Which of the following allows a user
to access their computer or a clients computer via the Internet?
Ans: a) remote desktop
sharing
Which of the following allows users
to connect to and monitor up to five social profiles with a free acount?
Ans: c) HootSuite
Which of the following business
structures is most common for home based businesses?
Ans: a) sole proprietorship
Which of the following can help to
earn more from current customers?
Ans: b) providing
additional services
Which of the following gives you
common law protection against others in your state using the same name?
Ans: d) All of the above
Which of the following is a
characteristic of social media communications?
Ans: d) All of the above
Which of the following is a
designation given by the state of residence rather than a federal tax entity?
Ans: a) sole proprietorship
Which of the following is a great way
for virtual assistants to meet and network with their peers?
Ans: b) Virtual assistant
organizations
Which of the following is NOT a
social media platform where users can post their own tips and reviews?
Ans: a) Yelp
Which of the following is NOT an
instant messaging application?
Ans: d) Windows Live
Messenger
Which of the following is useful for
managing both Facebook posts and Twitter feeds?
Ans: a) HootSuite
Which of the following statements
about Google's technical and quality guidelines is true?
Ans: 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 search engines.
Which of the following uses videos as
the presentation medium?
Ans: d) Vlogs
Which of these is a benefit of having
an organized work flow?
Ans: d) All of the above
Why is it important to have a company
blog hosted on the company web domain versus a third party blogging site?
Ans: b) Search engine
rankings will include hits on the blog as part of the overall website hits
Work invoices should
______________________.
Ans: a) be sent out in a
timely manner
Writing down a list of daily tasks in
the order they need to be accomplished is a(n)_______________________.
Ans: d) ordered list
