Test Your Knowledge - Technical Marketing Handbook

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Take our Quiz to find out how much you know about technical marketing. The quiz contains 40 questions on different topics that we cover in the Technical Marketing Handbook. Once you complete the quiz, you'll see a result with an overall score as well as how you performed in each Handbook category.

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Category: Search Engine Optimization

How do search engines (generally) choose the order of results for any given query?

Ranking is based on a multitude of factors with which the search engine tries to determine what are the most relevant pieces of content for any given query

Ranking is based on both query relevance and the company's ad spend – the more money a company uses on ads, the better their content ranks

After determining the 10 most relevant pieces of content, the order is randomized with each search to level the playing field

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Category: Search Engine Optimization

What are Core Web Vitals?

The name of Google's three principles for designing a faster web

A set of metrics that measure actual user experience for loading performance, interactivity, and visual stability of a web page

Key metrics for measuring how fast a page is loaded from the web server

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Category: Search Engine Optimization

What is Microdata?

The smallest possible unit of data that can be handled by an analytics system

Data about a specific individual (vs. macrodata which is data about populations)

A specification for nesting structured data within HTML content, using attributes particular to a specific schema

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Category: Search Engine Optimization

What does SERP stand for?

Structurally Encoded Render Path

Search Engine Rating Post

Search Engine Results Page

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Category: Search Engine Optimization

What is a crawler?

A machine that downloads and parses content on the web, following links to find additional content to fetch

The bot that fetches (crawls) content in a search engine's index to respond to a user's query

Malware designed to attack a specific website in order to find vulnerabilities

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Category: Programming And Software Development

What is SQL short for?

Sequential Query Language

Structured Query Language

Simple Query Language

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Category: Programming And Software Development

What is an SDK?

Software Development Kit – development environment extension that makes it easier to program in a specific language

Software Development Kit – a set of software-building tools for a specific platform or technology

System Development Kernel – JavaScript's core

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Category: Programming And Software Development

What is the purpose of version control?

To lock a version so that only one person at a time can create code for it

To update the version of software in an application store

To make it possible to track and manage changes in code over time

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Category: Programming And Software Development

What is a JavaScript library?

A JavaScript data type, similar to objects and arrays

Another name for a file that has self-contained JavaScript code and that can be utilized by downloading it into the application

A wiki within a company that details all the JavaScript conventions used in the company

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Category: Programming And Software Development

What is an API?

Application programming interface – a set of methods and protocols in software that allow other sources to communicate with it

Automated programming interface – AI-driven software development

Application programming interface – software with which an application is developed

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Category: Privacy And Data Protection

What does the GDPR take a stance on?

The individual's right to opt out of the sale of their personal data

Consent for accessing any stored, non-necessary information on the user's device

Collecting, storing, and managing personal data of individuals in the EU

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Category: Privacy And Data Protection

What type of encryption is a SHA256 hash?

It's a standardized encryption method that uses a 256-bit key to decrypt the data

It's not encryption – it's an irreversible, one-way transformation of the original data

It's a complex encryption that can only be decrypted if both the public and the private keys are known

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Category: Privacy And Data Protection

What is the data minimization principle?

Data should be collected in small batches to make it easier to audit it both upstream and downstream

If you minimize the amount of data you collect, you also minimize the risk of legal consequences

Only the minimum amount of data should be collected to satisfy the purpose for which it was collected

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Category: Privacy And Data Protection

When is an entity a data controller?

When they determine the purposes and means of processing personal data

When they store personal data of the user

When they collect personal data of the user

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Category: Privacy And Data Protection

What is the core idea of Privacy by Design?

Apps and websites need to ask for the user's consent for any unnecessary data use

Data protection and privacy measures need to be included in the technological design of an app or service from the very beginning

Privacy features need to go through a specific, standardized design process

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Category: Data And Analytics

What does it mean when data is stored relationally?

Data is distributed across columns, rows, and tables in such a way that different entries can be linked together with keys

All related data is stored in the same table – cross-table joins are not possible

When a single table includes all the data related to the primary agent (e.g. user), that table is said to be relational

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Category: Data And Analytics

What does a "bounce" measure in an analytics system?

A particularly unimpressive or short-lived visit to a website

Repeat visits from the same user in a short period of time

How often users were unable to visit the site due to errors

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Category: Data And Analytics

What is data architecture concerned with?

How the physical storage and computation for data engineering efforts within an organization are orchestrated

How data is structured, stored, and utilized within an organization using data models, schemas, data flow maps, and governance instructions

How measurement plans for data collection and analysis are designed and compiled

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Category: Data And Analytics

What is the purpose of geolocation?

To store all user-related data in a data center of their choosing in order to comply with regulations

To geographically locate the user on the globe, usually with a reverse lookup of the user's IP address

To ensure that the resources are loaded over the network from servers as geographically close to the user as possible

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Category: Data And Analytics

What is a data warehouse?

Data warehouses are used as long-term storage and archival systems for an organization's data – they are usually restricted to just one source

Another name for a database – any system designed to store data in a structured format

A repository of data, typically from multiple different sources – the sources are normalized and joined together by applying schemas at storage time

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Category: The Web Browser

What does "asynchronous" mean?

If a resource is loaded asynchronously, the web browser continues with other tasks while waiting for the download to complete

When two things happen unexpectedly at the same time, they happen asynchronously

An asynchronously loaded resource is loaded after the page DOM has been rendered completely

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Category: The Web Browser

What is the relationship between a browser engine and a browser app?

The browser engine is the core functionality of the browser, from rendering to storage management – the browser app is just the user interface for this engine

There is no practical difference, the two terms are used interchangeably

Every browser app uses the same browser engine, but browser apps behave differently depending on which vendor built the app

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Category: The Web Browser

What is a third-party cookie?

When the browser tries to access a cookie that is set on a site the user is not currently browsing, that cookie is called a third-party cookie

An identifier created or owned by another organization, typically an advertising technology company

A way to store the user's email address (or other personal data) on a third-party network – it's the cornerstone of advertising for companies like Meta and Google

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Category: The Web Browser

What is Unix time?

A colloquial expression used to describe a date/time string in localized format

Standardized format describing the amount of time (usually milliseconds) since the Unix epoch of 00:00:00 (UTC), January 1st, 1970

A standardized time unit generated specifically by Unix servers

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Category: The Web Browser

What does caching do?

If a resource is cached, it's stored (usually temporarily) for quicker access

Caches are another form of browser storage, similar to cookies and localStorage

Caching lets you download web pages locally for reading them while offline

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